[haiku] Re: Firefox 3+ for Haiku
- From: Gregor Rosenauer <gregor.rosenauer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:03:42 +0100
Great to see the burning fox returning to Haiku in its latest incarnation:)
I wonder if it would make sense however to skip 3.x and start working
right on the 4.0 branch?
This way we would have the latest Firefox browser when Haiku reaches beta...
Gregor (back to lurking mode)
PS: Still hoping the cover artwork for the Haiku alpha will be
released sometime, I'd love to have a CD-R with a Haiku-branded CD
surface...
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Krishna <v.krishnakumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is my first post. I got blown away by Haiku when I tried one of
> the pre-alpha
> builds and since then been lurking here :)
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I would like to poll people here on whether there is any/enough
>> developer interest to start a port of Firefox-trunk for Haiku.
>>
>> The port would require quite a lot of work in quite a few areas of
>> expertise, but the knowledge on the Firefox side is still here (fyysik
>> and tqh), and perhaps other people can help out my.
>>
>> My contribution would be setting up a central website (Trac) +
>> git/mercurial repositories and working with people on preparing
>> upstream patches.
>>
>> This is meant as an alternative for the Webkit browser. Though that's
>> a descent project, it is still far away from creating a usable and
>> stable browser.
>>
>> Anyone interested?
>>
>
> As someone who just finished a XUL app, I'd love to see my app running on
> Haiku. The GRE+XPCOM platform is turning to be a pretty decent framework for
> cross-platform apps and there seems to be a lot of work going on at Mozilla so
> while Chrome may be blazing away at the moment, I'd really like to have the
> firefox platform ported to Haiku. And ofcourse, the ton of extensions out
> there. So, +1
>
> Cheers,
> --Krishna
>
> --
> I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
> to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble !
> -- Helen Keller
>
>
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