Arctic Fox Web Browser

Arctic Fox started as a forked and rebranded Pale Moon 27.9.4 and retains its classic interface. Many fixes and enhancements have been imported from Firefox and TenFourFox.

Arctic Fox aims to be a desktop oriented browser. (Android has been axed, iOS is lingering.)

The goal is to backport improvements, security updates and bug fixes to keep this browser as up to date as possible for aging systems. Examples would be Mac OSX 10.6-10.11, PowerPC's running Linux, Windows XP, etc.

Arctic Fox should build for Mac OS X 10.6 and up, Windows XP, i386/x86-64/PowerPC-BE, MIPS-el, ARM on Linux, and more than likely any other Unix/BSD varient. For BigEndian systems, check issues with ICU builds. Ideally, we'd like to get it working on MacOS 10.5 Intel & PPC as well, but help is needed. It can be compiled with hacks.

Compared to PaleMoon 27 some major changes:

• ARM support has been reinstantiated, including JIT!
• MIPS support reinstantiated, too (less tested and only on Little Endian)
• WebRTC has been reinstantiated
• PDF reader has been reinstantiated
• vast improvement in compiler support, up to gcc 14

Build tips

With enough swap, 1.2GB of RAM are the absolute minimum tested, 1.5GB is acceptable, 2GB is comfortable, 4GB is recommended. For some tricks, read below.

• To build on MacOS:
  • Requires MacOS-X 10.6 as a minimum build environment.
  • Install xcode, command line tools and macports.
  • Install these via macports:

  • sudo port -v install autoconf213 python27 libidl ccache yasm clang-3.7 (clang-3.7 is the minimum known to work). 
    

  • Extract source archive somewhere convenient.
  • Add a sane .mozconfig (i've included some samples).
  • From the source directory type: ./mach build
  • If it builds (takes about 1 hour on a core2duo) test it with: ./mach run
  • Now package it: ./mach package
  • The built package will be in /obj_blah_blah/dist

What has been removed compared to FireFox?

• translation support through translations services
• social panel
• Android support
• metro support
• EME

Resources

• Mozilla Source Code Directory Structure and links to project pages
• Build Arctic Fox

Downloads and Add-ons

Sources and Binaries are supplied for each Release as Assets. See the WIKI tab formore prebuilt binary download links.

Thanks to...

• The Pale Moon team for making a great browser to base this off of.
• The TenFourFox team. We borrow or backport a lot of their stuff, their work is (has been) amazing.