My contributions are minor, mostly leveraging my long-worked-at ability to get 
current toolchains onto older systems. 

Cameron is a very smart guy. Like — really good at this stuff.

Ken

> On Jun 14, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Uli Wienands <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ken, I agree with everything you say. But my banking stopped with the 
> infamous "this is undefined" error that was mentioned in the TFF blog when it 
> showed up first, and I just checked with FPR23, no go. OWC's site also does 
> not work quite right, the graphics on their front page is messed up, although 
> the site is useable and ordering works. I know of the Github issue, but the 
> things I do with it work, so no issue for me. Your port of TFF has been my 
> standard browser on the MBP ever since you released it.
> 
> That said, I just watched Spacex's latest launch, flawless (Your port of TFF, 
> that is!).
> 
> So, thanks again,
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 6/12/20 11:36 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> Unfortunately true "feature parity" turned out to be too
>>> difficult to maintain for Cameron, so things like online banking by and
>>> large don't work anymore.
>> He's pretty close. Security is right up to date, TLS 1.3, he is no more than 
>> a few weeks behind at most on security patches from the FireFox tree. 
>> Amazing, really.
>> 
>> There are some new web features that are apparently hard to 
>> implement...written in Rust, I think, which as you know is not so functional 
>> on 10.4. The bank I use works great with TFF, I guess it doesn't use those 
>> web features. And amazon, ebay, youtube, macports, wikipedia, etc, etc, etc, 
>> all work normally.
>> 
>> GitHub does use some of them, as of last year, so it has a hiccup.
>> 
>> Cameron said he watched the entire Democratic debate on a G5 running 
>> TenFourFox, all 2+hours of streaming video, without a hiccup.
>> 
>> The intel version works very well for me, almost never crashes. Perhaps 95% 
>> of websites work as expected.
>> 
>> Ken

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