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Re: Timberwolf is now open source
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There is an attempt to port it to AmigaOS3 68k, maybe it can help ...

https://github.com/mntmn/llvm-m68k

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Re: Timberwolf is now open source
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It's unfortunate, but Firefox itself has been almost completely rewritten at least twice since the version used to make Timberwolf. So little if any of the Timberwolf code would be useful in making a new port from a more recent version.

It's a real shame that Mozilla corp doesn't use the enormous funds it gets mostly from Google in exchange for Google being the default search - it's hundreds of millions of dollars - to support bringing their technology to niche platforms and help make the web accessible to all.

Instead they pissed the money away on vanity projects like firefox OS or buying platform neutral services like Pocket that shouldn't be a part of Mozilla's business.

I was involved in discussions with them around 12 years ago to support them in porting Firefox to Symbian OS, and the sums involved were tiny relative to their budget, but the fact is the people who run Mozilla have no business sense and dithered and dithered about doing it until the window of opportunity had passed. The guy I was dealing with got fed up with Mozilla and left to join the Nokia maemo team.

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Re: Timberwolf is now open source
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Since the port was never completed and buggy why not just update the port from the same source tree that Timberwolf is based on? That would be better than the buggy version that still exists today. Other Amiga like operating systems like MorphOS are getting more feature rich and complete web browsers. We have the fastest and most expensive AmigaOS 4.1 machine available (X5000) but it does not have a modern web browser. See the problem here?

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Re: Timberwolf is now open source
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Well i think the answer is to not spend any time on timberwolf at all, even if its bugs were fixed it'd still be slow and out of date standards wise. Odyssey/Wayfarer are much faster than timberwolf on the same hardware.

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Re: Timberwolf is now open source
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Agreed, reviving the old TW code is likely a fools errand...

OTOH, there's the potential of working with the TenForFox
guys... They have a PPC Firefox port, are Amiga aware and
know about OS4...

http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

..or maybe we should look at "Goana", an unoxidized (i.e.,
Rust-less) branch of Mozilla?

http://www.moonchildproductions.info/goanna.shtml

In any case, we OBVIOUSLY need some progress on the
browser front.

...instead of the INFANTILE, MORONIC efforts to develop
the world's prettiest 24bit clock or overwrite AmigaOS
with retarded C command replacements [Thank you, MattyOS].

How can users help the browser situation?

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