I've been working for some time on getting a modern-ish (really, modern-SSL-supporting) browser running on my Mac OS 9.1 iMac G3. My initial approach has been to try to a version of Classzilla[0] with support for more modern encryption.
I wonder if I've been overthinking it. Surely, I could just compile Firefox or Chromium source to WASM, compile that with this tool, and then have a fully working browser! What could possibly go wrong?
I had until recently an G5 PowerPC Imac I installed Linux on (Void-ppc linux)
and the Linux on Powerpc community people have developped a
firefox fork (Arctic Fox) which
was working well but the real problem is that is was quite slow, single-core
CPUS can't stand modern browsing. Blog reading was fine but anything else
took more time than I was ready to wait for. I wanted to make it a no
distraction machine to run vim in and read documentation but the machine
maintenance was itself a distraction in the end.
I wonder if I've been overthinking it. Surely, I could just compile Firefox or Chromium source to WASM, compile that with this tool, and then have a fully working browser! What could possibly go wrong?
[0] https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/