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Title: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: JamesR on September 21, 2002, 11:40:55 PM

Mozilla.org is near to releasing Phoenix .1, which is a browser-only client much like Galeon (Linux) and Chimera (Mac). If someone was going to port Mozilla to Amiga, the Linux version of Phoenix would probably be the place to start.

You can download Phoenix nightlies for Windows and Linux here (http://komodo.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/nightly/latest-trunk/).

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: Kronos on September 22, 2002, 12:54:27 AM

Yep 10mb tar file (for the binary it seems)... should be 20mb++ sources.

Let's see I'm a bit busy today, but don't worry I'll port it tommorow.

Ah wait do I have to port GTK too ?

If someone would really consider porting a Linux-browser, he should go
for Konquerer ! Small effecient much easier to port and it's defintly
more "Amiga-like" than anything bloatzilla.

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: jd997uk on September 22, 2002, 01:12:12 AM

@Kronos
Err, I find myself on unfamiliar ground here. I actually agree with you! Much is always made of Mozilla, but it's sheer size is so un-Amiga like, that it would really be a better option to look elsewhere.
A question here is, how big is Konqueror's KHTML engine?

-john

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: JamesR on September 22, 2002, 08:43:33 AM

Sarcastic much?

I was well aware that Amiga naysayers would probably be the only ones to reply to this, but honestly I don't care. I want to see Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga regardless. I wish I could port it myself, I can't.

-JR

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: System on September 22, 2002, 10:59:09 PM

Ok, to prove there are people other than the naysayers here...

While I agree that Mozilla is exceptionally bloated, I really do hope that people do have a crack at porting it.

I see Mozilla as the benchmark for webbrowsers these days. It displays almost every site around.

An Amiga version would be really useful to tide us over while the machine specific browsers play catch up.

Another browser I would like to see ported is Opera. This is designed to be portable and I suspect could be mad propperly Amiga like. There was an Amiga porting effort at one time, althout that seems to have faded away now.

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: gnarly on September 23, 2002, 02:42:38 AM

@Kronos

Stop whinging and get on with it  ;-)

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: ikir on September 23, 2002, 07:46:46 AM

interesting.... i like mozilla

Title: Re: Mozilla.org to release Phoenix browser-only app
Post by: KennyR on September 23, 2002, 08:55:50 AM

Mozilla is enormously bloated - but skimming off useless "features" and leaving the browser itself should slim it down a bit.

As for other Linux browsers, porting them all suffers the same problem - they have their own GUIs, and don't use the underlying OS, probably because Linux is so cryptic and unfriendly it doesn't have a standard GUI. So you have to port the GUI too - and thats another reason why the ports are big, bloated and slow.