Project Timberwolf - Firefox for AmigaOS4.1

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However, shared objects on OS4 are technically *not* shared.

Dunno what they smiley's for. They still have their uses. They save hard disk space, bug fixes in shared objects don't require all apps that use them to be recompiled, and combined with dlopen/dlsym are a very handy way of making C++ based plugins.

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BTW, to all the people claiming we don't really need it since we have OWB, FireFox 3.5+ brings a lot of cool stuff to OS4.x that OWB doesn't, including:

* HTML5, presumably including cool stuff like the video tag
* A download manager
* A really good address-bar history system
* An excellent selection of plugins (a lot of which should be cross-platform)
* Private browsing
* Better security features

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They are not shared and C++ dynamic linking libraries stop working when there is new GCC version.

So what. You're free to use shared libraries or shared objects, depending on what suits your needs the best.

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- OWB/Webkit supports HTML5 and

Does any port of OWB to Amigoid systems support this?

(same for the good address bar history)

The OS4 OWB port has a reasonable address bar history, but the Firefox 3.x one is better. Is the OWB MorphOS one as good?

And of course, it's a better idea to port firefox if you're unable to design a browser GUI yourself.

Who says the Friedens couldn't? The GUI is not the hardest part of a browser, but if you get a GUI that hundreds of people already work on, thats a bonus.

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it wasn't particularly harder, and it's quite more amiga-like too (the irony).

What irony? Who cares? OS4 offers developers more choice. I fail to see why that is a bad thing.

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The irony is AmigaOS4.x developers failing to develop software the way Amiga software is meant to.

What the hell? Since when is there a giant rule book of what you must do. "Thou shalt not do anything that AmigaOS3.1 didn't offer!". Please.

unless ofcourse "a big mess" is the goal.

What big mess?