https://apfelhammer.de/tags/firefox/ Recent content in Firefox on Apfel hammer Hugo en-en Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/a-modern-browser-for-powerpc-macs-mac-os-x-105/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/a-modern-browser-for-powerpc-macs-mac-os-x-105/ <p>I just stumbled across a new browser that promises to bring a current version of Firefox to Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC (and Intel).</p> <p>Attentive readers of my weblog will know that I have a great passion for trying out modern browsers, usually paired with modern Linux PPC distributions, on my PowerPC 64-Bit PowerMac G5 and integrating them into my daily routine. Of course, this is only possible to a limited extent with a computer from 2005, but it is possible.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/new-firefox-145-and-the-32-bit-build/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/new-firefox-145-and-the-32-bit-build/ <p>Master hacker René Rebe, known to everyone for <strong>T2/SDE</strong> Linux, writes in a <a href="https://medium.com/@Re-News/firefox-145-new-tricks-same-fox-32-bit-builds-gone-but-t2-linux-644917890bbb">recent article</a> about the media&rsquo;s proclamation of the end of 32-bit Firefox—and verifies this claim on his own system.</p> <p>Of course, the world isn&rsquo;t black and white, and René describes how, although&hellip;</p> <hr> <p>while Mozilla has ended official 32-bit Linux builds for the upstream binary release, but the underlying source code remains portable. Downstream projects such as T2 SDE Linux, which pride themselves on building Firefox natively for every architecture from i686 and <strong>PowerPC G5</strong> to <strong>MIPS</strong> and <em>RISC-V</em>, already have fresh 32-bit builds running. In fact, the broader ecosystem of independent distributions continues to demonstrate that so-called “obsolete” architectures can live long, productive lives when supported by efficient cross-compilation frameworks.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/firefox-128-esr-on-ppc64-powermac-g5/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/firefox-128-esr-on-ppc64-powermac-g5/ <p>Since I own the Powermac G5 and play around with it, I want to install a modern Browser and therefor, I want to run Firefox on it. But it is not possible. I tried different Linux Distros like Debian 12 PPC64, T2/Linux by Rene Rebe and even some special builts of ARCH for PPC64 - but I had no luck. No one had luck and even the Debian Mailinglist said it is not possible to built Firefox for PPC64 at this time. I even wrote about that.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/mac-os-x-1058-with-modern-browser/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/mac-os-x-1058-with-modern-browser/ <p>As you can see in the screenshot, I am visiting both my weblog and amazon.de Websites with the Powermac G5 2,0 GHz. This is only possible because there is a relative modern webbrowser (2022) by user wicknix, built upon <strong>TenFourFox</strong>.</p> <p><a href="images/interweb.png"><img src="images/interweb.jpg" alt=""></a> <!-- raw HTML omitted -->InterWebPPC: Mozilla for Power Macintosh<!-- raw HTML omitted --></p> <p>So with this webbrowser the old 20 years old Powermac is able to visit modern websites like Amazon. No, I dont like amazon, but is is an example. Youtube also works, but loads a lot longer.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/status-of-firefox-on-ppc64-big-endian/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/status-of-firefox-on-ppc64-big-endian/ <p>So yesterday was the release ouf <strong>24.12 T2/Linux</strong> and the maintainer, creator and mastermind behind, René Rebe, were at a lifestream on youtube and twitch. So I played around with T2 on my Powermac G5 and listened to the stream and had a small chat with him. The most important part is an actual browser on that machine so I asked for the actual status of firefox.</p> <p>René replied that the problems with big endian still exist and occours so there is no Firefox for Big Endian Machines at the moment. Firefox builts well on all little endian processors, but not on the big ones. There is no better answer at this time, but I hope he can do something when he have the time. Because to make that clear: there is not a big audience who is working on big endian ppc64 processors like my 970MP is in the world and I believe he get&rsquo;s not enough feedback and attention for his work for the open source community. But this is another part.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2-linux-is-fucking-amazing/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2-linux-is-fucking-amazing/ <p>So yesterday I found out that with the PPC64 Version Firefox is working and this is a dealbreaker, a gamechanger. Because of a modern Browser, you can use this old computer nearly productive. I can webmail (even Googlemail), I can spotify, I can Youtube. I can do a lot of modern things only because the browser is working.</p> <p><a href="https://apfelhammer.de/images/terminal.png"><img src="https://apfelhammer.de/images/terminal_sml.png" alt=""></a> <!-- raw HTML omitted -->My Powermac G5 Desktop with XFCE 4 and some Terminal Windows.<!-- raw HTML omitted --></p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-2510-never-obsolte-is-there/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-2510-never-obsolte-is-there/ <p>Master-Hacker <em>René Rebe</em> has published his newest version of <strong>T2/Linux</strong>, an SDE Linux with the most CPU Architechture support in the world. It is also the most active and most actual Linux Distro as you can see on distro watch and other sites.</p> <p>I installed this new version on my <a href="https://janmontag.de/t2-sde-in-neuer-version">Powermac G5</a> Workstation and it works like charme.</p> <p>Here you can find the direct download for <a href="https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2025/t2-25.10-ppc-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-603.iso">ppc</a>, <a href="https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2025/t2-25.10-ppc64-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-power4.iso">ppc64</a> or <a href="https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2025/t2-25.10-ppc6432-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-970.iso">ppc64/32</a>*</p> <p>I installed the 64/32 Bit Variante, because it is optimized for the 970 Processor which works in the Powermac G5.</p>