chromium-legacy
Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+ (by blueboxd)
wrp
Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web (by tenox7)
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| 37 | 52 | |
| 238 | 985 | |
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| 0.0 | 6.2 | |
| about 20 hours ago | 4 months ago | |
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| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
chromium-legacy
Posts with mentions or reviews of chromium-legacy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-03.
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Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer
See also: the equivalent for legacy OS X (Lion and newer): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
- I'm having issues trying to update from lion osx to high Sierra
- Macbook air 2015 OS X browser problems
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Advice sought: Mid-2009 Macbook (not Pro) and Mojave / Monterey / Ventura
A niche suggestion if you have all of the time: if you don’t rely on icloud services, you can actually try very old os x like mountain lion + this for browser
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What's the best browser for Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
If you can do it, I'd go to Lion. It added so many features such as the launchpad, the option to reopen windows when you restarted your computer, etc. It's new enough that Chromium Legacy will work, and it's what I use for my unsupported Mac OS X installs. Unlike Arctic Fox which is essentially pale moon 27 under the hood, Chromium Legacy is fully up to date as of when I'm posting this.
- Need help updating 2012 MBP with Mountain Lion
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What is the oldest Mac OS that is compatible with a version of Waterfox that still receives security updates as of now?
Chromium Legacy goes back to OS X Lion 10.7 and is being actively worked on. It has its limitations compared to the original Chromium (see Readme): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
- Chrome is dropping support for MacOS 10.13 and 10.14 this summer, that is too soon! A lot of Macs were high end machines when they were released, they are still capable today as mid-range machines. Eventually people will have to switch to Firefox OR Chromium-Legacy in order to use a recent browser
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Chrome is dropping support for MacOS 10.13 and 10.14 this summer! That is too soon! I guess people will have to switch to Firefox or chromium-legacy in order to use a recent browser
I don't use GitHub much so I don't know, so how can you tell how many people are working on a project, like for Chromium Legacy: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
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Latest browser versions for 10.11.6 El Capitan
I haven't tried it myself, but a couple of minutes ago I found out about Chromium-legacy. The description says it's equivalent to current upstream versions of Chromium except for some limitations caused by older OS versions. Viewing DRM-protected content (e.g. Netflix) requires separately installing the Widevine library.
wrp
Posts with mentions or reviews of wrp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-17.
- Web Rendering Proxy – Use historical browsers with the modern web
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Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp allows you to use modern js as well, as long as you can render images
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The Future of the Web Is VNC
I use this for retrocomputing, in a way, to be very silly! tenox7's WRP [Web Rendering Proxy] basically runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser.
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
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I just picked up a collection of old Macs. Which should I build a gaming PC out of?
Just like the PowerBook G3 Pismo I have, the iBook uses commonly available 18650 cells, so it's easy to rebuild the battery. With built-in AirPort antennas, you can add an AirPort card and get WiFi (has to be Wireless B though, and sometimes there are issues with encryption so you usually have to run an open access point to connect). Now this is the crazy part, but you can run Web Rendering Proxy on a Raspberry Pi or other, more powerful machine, then use an old browser like Internet Explorer to browse the web. It mostly works, and it's a pretty fun way to get some strange looks in the coffee shop.
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Working graphical HTML browser on AXP?
Depending on what you're trying to do, you can use a "vintage" web browser and something like Web Rendering Proxy to make the page work.
- Connect to internet
- A buddy gave me his 2011 MBP to upgrade for him, so I stuck in an SSD and 8gb RAM, and with the help of Opencore Legacy Patcher, I got Ventura running great on it! If you have an old Mac, I would really recommend doing this, they still have a lot of life left in them!
- WRP – Web Rendering Proxy
- 16 bit Netscape Navigator for Windows 3.1 still can browse the web
- Getting the printer going didn’t even compare with trying to get on the internet. Win95 and IE 5.5
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chromium-legacy and wrp you can also consider the following projects:
chromium-web-store - Allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium. Also adds semi-automatic extension updating.
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!
osx-patcher - A reupload of Julian Fairfax/RMC Team's OSX patcher, for patching old macs/macbooks from Mountain Lion to El Capitan (10.8-10.11), since he deleted his account and website.
browservice - Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
webone - HTTP 1.x proxy that makes old web browsers usable again in the Web 2.0 world.
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
winchrome - Chromium for 64-bit Windows - All Codecs: MS Visual Studio 2017
docker-qemu-reactos - A Docker image for the ReactOS operating system.
eslint-plugin-compat - Check the browser compatibility of your code
wrp - Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web