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Offline danwood

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Re: Project Timberwolf - Firefox for AmigaOS4.1
« on: September 30, 2009, 11:55:12 AM »
To be honest, the whole idea of Firefox on OS4 excited the heck out of me when it was first suggested many years ago.

Today not so much, I don't even use Firefox on my PC or Mac anymore, its all about Webkit these days, and lets not forget we already have a brilliant Webkit browser in the form of OWB (and netsurf, but that's never worked on my machine for some reason).  Firefox is slow, bloated, and uses up a ton of resources.  Safari and Chrome and other webkit browsers out perform it by a huge margin.

For a while we were getting weekly updates to OWB, but now there haven't been any for 4 months or so, I'm praying he hasn't given up work on it.  It still lacks a few things, a download manager being the most obvious.

I think we're better off putting our efforts into OWB and making it more usable, its almost thee.  If Joerg (I believe his name is, excuse me if I got it wrong) hasn't got the time to work on OWB now, maybe he could open the source so others can expand on it.

Firefox would have been great 4/5 years ago, but these days I say Webkit is a much better option.
 

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Re: Project Timberwolf - Firefox for AmigaOS4.1
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 11:35:42 PM »
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Not getting updates for 4 months doesn't mean he has stopped working on it. He could be busy with something else or he could be in the process of some major updates. DvPlayer and MPLayer for OS 4 don't get regular updates either.


Yeah I hope not, but my point was he was doing weekly updates for a long time, unlike DVPlayer etc.