FireFox 9 beta 4 now available for PowerPC
On Dec 2, 2011 Apple | Retro Mac | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: Firefox, PowerPC
Thanks again to the TenFourFox development team for continuing to port current versions of Moizilla’s FireFox browser. Mozilla dropped PowerPC support for FireFox over a year ago.
Your web browser is huge because it connects you to so much content, having a current and secure browser that is optimized for your system and updated regularly is crucial and TenFourFox fills that role for PowerPC users. I’m up to my knees in PowerPC and I don’t feel the need to upgrade to Intel just quite yet.
If you want to read about some of the trials and tribulations that the team encountered with this release you can see it at the TenFourFox Development Blog.
You can find system specific builds (G3,G4,G5) from TenFourFox
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