Arctic Fox

Arctic Fox is a of the Firefox web browser for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), which is no longer supported by Apple nor the Mozilla Foundation. It is available in Intel binaries, avoiding the use of Rosetta, which significantly degraded the performance of legacy PowerPC browsers, such as TenFourFox for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).Arctic Fox web browser for 10.6 (32 & 64-bit) by wicknix, MacRumors Forums. 2018-08-18.
==Description==
Arctic Fox uses the open source from , itself a of Firefox. Development started from Palemoon 27.9.4 and supported aging operating systems, such as Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.8.5, Linux for PowerPC, and Windows XP.Arctic Fox Web Browser, wicknix. Accessed 2022-06-25. The Intel binaries are available in 32-bit for legacy plugin support (such as ), or 64-bit for improved performance. Switching to a mobile is recommended for resource-heavy sites that utilize JavaScript.
===History===
Arctic Fox for Mac OS X 10.6 was first announced by a developer identified as "wicknix" in August 2018. A with PowerPC support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) was revealed in March 2019.So this finally happened. Sort of... by wicknix, MacRumors Forums. 2019-03-03. Development of more recent builds has also been handled by Ricardo Mottola.ArcticFox on 10.6 by Riccardo Mottola, The Art is Long. 2018-11-07.
==References==
==See also==
*InterWeb, forks of Firefox for obsolete PowerPC or 32-bit Intel Macs.
*Classilla, a fork of Mozilla for Mac OS 9
==External links==
*Arctic Fox by wicknix and Ricardo Mottola at GitHub
**Arctic Fox downloads
Category:Freeware
Category:Mac OS X software
Category:Web browsers
Category:2018 introductions