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It let me keep using a G4 iBook as a daily driver until ~2016 when the web got to be too much for it to handle.", "context": "Used a G4 iBook as daily driver", "use_case": "browsing on old Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}, {"id": 777996865, "item_id": 48624804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624804", "by": "geerlingguy", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Thank you for your work on it! I love that I can browse most of the modern web on G4 and G5 Macs still.", "excerpt": "Thank you for your work on it! I love that I can browse most of the modern web on G4 and G5 Macs still.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}, {"id": 777971232, "item_id": 48623202, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623202", "by": "pndy", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "both that chunky white boy and TenFourFox managed to help me", "excerpt": "There was a similar project called TenFourFox that was halted in 2022: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html Some 12 years ago I had to order a new motherboard and at that time all I had at hand was some old eMac. I'm not sure if it had 512MB or 1GB of ram installed by previous owner but browsing the Internet was tiresome. Still, ", "context": "", "use_case": "Browsing on old PowerPC Macs", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "ndiddy", "context": "Used a G4 iBook as daily driver", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625175", "date": "2026-06-21"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["browsing on powerpc mac", "browsing on old mac", "browsing on old powerpc macs", "browsing on powermac g5"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622731", "title": "PowerFox Browser", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820022", "title": "MacSurf 1.68 \u2013 NetSurf on OS 9 Released", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 781229200, "item_id": 48826825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826825", "by": "steve-atx-7600", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I can only use the last release of tenfourfox on my g4", "excerpt": "Seriously. I am going to check this out. Otherwise, I can only use the last release of tenfourfox on my g4 but only through the https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice proxy running on another machine.", "context": "", "use_case": "Browsing on PowerPC Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "MacSurf 1.68 \u2013 NetSurf on OS 9 Released"}, {"id": 778002800, "item_id": 48625175, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625175", "by": "ndiddy", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Thanks for keeping TenFourFox going for so long! It let me keep using a G4 iBook as a daily driver until ~2016", "excerpt": "Thanks for keeping TenFourFox going for so long! It let me keep using a G4 iBook as a daily driver until ~2016 when the web got to be too much for it to handle.", "context": "Used a G4 iBook as daily driver", "use_case": "browsing on old Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}, {"id": 777996865, "item_id": 48624804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624804", "by": "geerlingguy", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Thank you for your work on it! I love that I can browse most of the modern web on G4 and G5 Macs still.", "excerpt": "Thank you for your work on it! I love that I can browse most of the modern web on G4 and G5 Macs still.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}, {"id": 777971232, "item_id": 48623202, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623202", "by": "pndy", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "both that chunky white boy and TenFourFox managed to help me", "excerpt": "There was a similar project called TenFourFox that was halted in 2022: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html Some 12 years ago I had to order a new motherboard and at that time all I had at hand was some old eMac. I'm not sure if it had 512MB or 1GB of ram installed by previous owner but browsing the Internet was tiresome. Still, ", "context": "", "use_case": "Browsing on old PowerPC Macs", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}, {"id": 777970080, "item_id": 48623130, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623130", "by": "seabrookmx", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used TenFourFox to extend the usefulness of my PowerMac G5 for many years", "excerpt": "I used TenFourFox to extend the usefulness of my PowerMac G5 for many years, though I last used it about a decade ago. I'd imagine running the modern web on a machine that slow would be painful. The G5 was actually the last Mac I owned until buying a Neo just for giggles.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing on PowerMac G5", "switched_from": "", "story": "PowerFox Browser"}]}