I'm very interested.

I have a Portfile I started here for TenFourFox:

https://github.com/kencu/myports/tree/master/www/tenfourfox

It builds to a certain point and then hits an error. Forget what it was just 
now. But it's a good starting point.



At present I use Firefox at present on 10.6.8 (Firefox ESR 45.9.0). It works 
just great on 10.6.8.
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.9.0esr/



Also available is webkit2-gtk (I have 2.18.0 running) and epiphany. These work 
well also. Current versions in same repo above. I will put together a PR to 
update it on MacPorts once a few final systems build it (getting a few systems 
to build something is easy -- getting them all to build it is harder).


Finally, see this:
https://sourceforge.net/p/leopard-webkit/wiki/Home/

Ken


On 2017-12-11, at 8:29 AM, Ulrich Wienands wrote:

> I would be very much interested. I am setting up a new old laptop for Snow 
> Leo so I can have access to Rosetta; but TFF does not seem to run under 
> Rosetta (even the G3 built does not work for me). Also I have a bunch of Mac 
> Pros under 10.8 that I don’t really want to upgrade, so I am losing support 
> for Firefox there as well.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this. I would offer help if I could, but it is not 
> realistic for lack of time and for lack of the skills needed.
> 
> Uli
> 
> 
>> On Dec 11, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> my interest in MacPorts sparked because I am attempting to port TenFourFox 
>> to intel... there has been already a past effort (v17) of an Intel port of 
>> it.
>> We all know that Firefox dropped anything 10.8 and below, I wonder if there 
>> any other persons interested in such an effort? For example people who use 
>> older MacBooks and MacBook Pro's, Mac Minis which may be anywhere between 
>> 10.4 and 10.7 ?
>> From some bug comments on trac, apparently at least one other person is 
>> interested.
>> 
>> Mostly, the problems are
>> - make the "new" code written custom for TTF for PPC work on Intel, that is 
>> make it endianess independent. Upstream is quite open to this if the patch 
>> is clean and we strive to maintain a common base
>> - make code paths and dependencies currently not used on PPC work on Intel
>> 
>> Some of teh dependencies are already handled by the ports, so past 
>> experience helps.
>> 
>> E.g. I have issues with libffi and libvpx.
>> 
>> Anyone interested, reply here or contact me.
>> 
>> Riccardo
> 

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