[haiku] Re: Firefox 3

  • From: Skar Cat <skarmiglione.sk4r@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:15:11 -0500

That video was made by me, and the firefox was a 3 version alpha from
haikuware if i am not wrong.

2011/1/1 Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>

> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Sean Healy <jalopeura@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Is there actual work happening on the Firefox 3 port?
>
> As far as I know the only browser stuff being worked on now is me
> continuing Stephan's great work on WebPositive. At some point it might
> be nice to also have the latest Firefox and Chromium browsers on
> Haiku, but for the foreseeable future all browser efforts will be on
> WebPositive. Of course I (and I'm sure whoever works on it in the
> future) will intend on making Web+ the best Haiku browser and
> hopefully something you will miss on other operating systems, instead
> of missing other browsers when running Haiku. But that will take a
> while.
>
> As for Gnash at some point I'll add support for plug-ins to Web+, and
> the first kind of plug-in to support is NPAPI plug-ins (which is what
> I think the Gnash Firefox plugin is.) It helps that Adrian is doing
> all the work on Gnash because that is one less thing we browser coders
> have to worry about. But I'll probably also want to run plug-ins in
> another process to prevent crashing the browser, which all modern
> browsers do now, and that will take a bit more work too.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
>

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