![]() I can comfortably and quickly view any website correctly, such as Macrumors or Youtube (good for reading Youtube comments). I just set Safari homepage to my WRP address ( ) and it's so easy. I'm not sure how extensive and 'authentic' people are trying to get with their browsing experience, but having used the WRP on my 300MHz G3 Clamshell running 10.3.9 with Safari 1.3, I can immediately say it is the fastest and most effective browsing experience. I tried out the Web Rendering Proxy, with the server being a 2015 MacBook Air, and wow, I was impressed at how easy it is to set up, and how well it works in general. This announcement finally forced me to explore alternative options for the future. I appreciate all the work that went into TFF, thank you Cameron for keeping it going. One day in the future, Roytam1 will probably call it quits too, and Windows XP will (finally) find itself in the exact same situation. Even though Tiger (and by extension Leopard) can claim a dedicated community of resilient software developers, it remains a 16-year-old OS with increasingly strict limitations as it and modern compiler / security standards continue to grow farther apart. TenFourFox will be missed, but its legacy lives Outside of great port of Links2, I wouldn't hold my breath for new browsers. His great work will be embedded in history as one of the few lifelines generously given to an otherwise abandoned architecture, and as a gold mine of data for downstream projects to build off of and add to for their own retro environments as well. Cameron Kaiser for not only undertaking a monumental task that no one else would, but even going above and beyond to sustain it for another whopping 11 years(!). We knew this day would come, and it was certainly a good run. They're in an arguably even worse situation, because there are no modern browsers for Snow Leopard / Lion and they don't even have TenFourFox. On a tangent I wonder how owners of early Intel Macintoshes cope. My old G4 PowerBook still connects to iTunes podcast servers, so I use it as a giant iPod, and I occasionally switch on my G5 and use it as a music machine.Īlbeit that now the summer months are upon us I probably won't use the G5 very much. Having said that TenFourFox will continue to at least work for several years, and I tend not to use my PowerPC Macintoshes for web browsing anyway. This news really highlights the fact that in 2021 computing = the internet for an enormous amount of people, and that the internet was the real killer app that made home computer relevant beyond games. ![]() It would never have become as pervasive as it is today if it was just pages of text, but I miss the simplicity and speed. It's hard now to believe that the internet was for a long time just pages of text. Probably lots of Buffy / Star Trek Voyager fan pages. Greg Goebel's VectorSite, Mark Prindle's reviews, ditto George Starostin. A few sites are like that today, just pages of text.
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