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> The newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr

This made me wonder if there are still working dev kits/tools with browser components available in such a way as to provide a fairly simple pathway from basic dev skills (or just "web browser example" code) --> up-to-date browser engine, running on 10.9.5?

Thinking of somewhat more obscure dev tools too, e.g. PureBasic, etc.

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This would have been a viable path, when WebKit was still "a thing" and enjoyed some integration. I guess, with WebKit2, things became more complicated and resource heavy. Given the rapid development cycles and feature releases, I doubt an integrated web-view would be able to keep up, nowadays. Esp., if nothing short of 100% compatibility to current Chrome will do.

(That said, Firefox 78.15.0esr works still fine in most cases, but I doubt that this will be the case much longer, mostly because of CSS feature adoption.)

> The newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr

I'll guess you'll be happy to see this: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy :)

This is what I used on my 10.9 machine. Works great!

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