$2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS

[Pyromania]

Official AmiZilla Website now online

http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html

[Calen]

Great idea, Lets hope this generates some interest in the coders out there ;-)

[B00tDisk]

No kidding.  The Amiga has sorely needed a decent browser - any decent browser, even a pig like Mozilla - for quite some time now.

[Ilwrath]

Well, I guess it's time for all the trolls who say they've "had it running" or "almost had it working" to come out and put up.  

Why do I suspect it'll be quite a while before we see anything, though?  

By the way, no one even mentions WHICH Amiga this is supposed to be for??  OS3.x?  OS4?  AmigaAnywhere?

Great idea, Lets hope this generates some interest in the coders out there :-)

Someone needs to tell him!  He probably has a tough time reading this with that bucket over his head!  :-D

[yssing]

Someone needs to tell him! He probably has a tough time reading this with that bucket over his head!

LOL.. anyway, this really is the way to go though, pay for some development. I am sure this will work.

[Pyromania]

Having it  for Amiga OS 3.9 & 4.0 would be best, what does everyone else think?

[jahc]

A beta of Mozilla for AmigaOS 3.x exists. But the guy working on it has lost interest I think, or doesnt have time for it. Maybe this will motivate him? I hope it does. A good browser will be one massive reason to not have to use my PC.

[Targhan]

One word:  "Gumption".

[Pyromania]

The pot is now @ $2181

[jahc]

A beta of Mozilla for AmigaOS 3.x exists. But the guy working on it has lost interest I think, or doesnt have time for it. Maybe this will motivate him? I hope it does. A good browser will be one massive reason to not have to use my PC.

Sorry, its more like alpha than beta.. but check this out:

http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1563

"No. I had a good version running on OS3.9 but
the mosdev mailing list was stillborn when I
posted it - it seems.

If I get time, I might ressurect it and bring it up
to the latest M release level and throw it onto OS4
as a freebie port. "

"Erm, yes, I've posted about this quite frequently in
the past and no one has taken me up on the offer
of taking it on - being too subtle I guess. I seemed to be the only one doing any actual work on it so I stopped.

Its slow, buggy ( early M codebase ), and needs a lot
of graft to get to something that I would be proud of.

It is sitting on the machine to the right of where I am typing at the moment which is sans one broken motherboard. "

[elendil]

Great initiative.

Now all you unemployed coders get together, share the pot, and produce a working mozilla browser in a week and I'll throw in a beer.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[Hooligan_DCS]

For all who have not visited the mozilla thread on ann.lu, please do. A question has raised whether to port Mozilla, or maybe redirect the funds to IBrowse development. Maybe start the discussion here aswel, as off topic as it may be.

[KennyR]

Having it for Amiga OS 3.9 & 4.0 would be best, what does everyone else think?

I think having it for OS3.1 would be best, so we can all use it. Then again, Mozilla is so mind-numbingly slow, no doubt the OS4/MOS people will want a native port...

[elendil]

Interesting.

I would much rather see an up to date version of Ibrowse than any other browser (Though I liked Voyager too), especially mozilla.

I just doubt that 2k dollars is enough for the IB author to devote most of his time to do it. I suppose he has a job as well, and if he is the slightest bit like me, he would really hate other semi-unknown people messing up his code :-)

Anyway, I hope it will be done.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[Ayashoka]

Note that after 1.6 they're planning to split Mozilla in seperate modules, webrowser(phoenix/firebird??), e-mail program, etc.