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Offline StarrunnerTopic starter

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Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« on: September 18, 2007, 09:11:05 PM »
Today I find myself working out of AmiKit on my Dell from Hell using AWeb 3.5 inside of AmiKit.  While an okay browser, I find that certain sites puke when I go to them.  This got me to thinking, has anyone ever ported Firefox or Opera to the Amiga?  Is there another Amiga browser that might work better than AWeb?  I am asking out of idle curiosity on this one.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2007, 09:14:31 PM »
You should try IBrowse 2.4 or Sputnik ;)
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2007, 09:15:40 PM »
Wow, you're opening up a can of @#$* here! A decent browser is what is missing on AOS for years and people have been complaining about it for years too!

In my opinion IBrowse is a better browser than AWeb, but it's not free and not even available for purchase at the moment either; you could download the demo though. This browser doesn't support more sites than Aweb though...

EDIT: Sputnik is available only for MorphOS for now.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2007, 09:37:33 PM »
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Starrunner wrote:
This got me to thinking, has anyone ever ported Firefox or Opera to the Amiga?


....because it's a {bleep}load of work, pardon my french.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 09:46:21 PM »
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has anyone ever ported Firefox or Opera to the Amiga?

No, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. For reasons, search the a.org forums.

Opera isn't open source anyway, so it cannot just be "ported".

[EDIT] Tried to rewire my brain [/EDIT]
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2007, 09:50:50 PM »
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has anyone ever ported Firefox or Opera to the Amiga?

No, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. For reasons, search the a.org forums.

Opera isn't open source anyway, so it cannot be just be "ported".


I did not realise Opera is not open source.  I had a couple of friends who raved about it so I thought it was.

I thought that it would be a pain in the buttocks to port anything.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2007, 10:48:47 PM »
@starrunner
Opera is not open source and thus impossible to port.. Firefox is open source, but sadly it would be a huge task to port it since OS4 is missing alot of components that firefox depends on.. There is however a project working on porting it though, but it seems like a port will at best be years away at current pace.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2007, 10:49:14 PM »
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You should try IBrowse 2.4 or Sputnik ;)

How can one use Sputnik when it does not even exist for AmigaOS?
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2007, 02:27:39 AM »
Someone should port over Explorer  :crazy:  
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2007, 02:40:03 AM »
avant might be a good alternative though it is built off of IE. but better, don't know if it is open source though, and it is still being developed and updated.  

As for amiga browsers, I also think the newest aweb aweb_apl3.5.09 isn't too bad. I've actually been to sites, where it outperformed ibrowse, though I'm only using the demo of ibrowse.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2007, 08:35:49 AM »
People have been saying for years that "Mozilla|Navigator|Firefox will never be ported to AmigaOS because it's a lot of work and would take too long". But if somebody had started it back then it would probably be finished by now :roll:

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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2007, 08:57:45 AM »
Finally got AmiKit working again on my Dell XPS, so I
will be checking out the AWEB and IBrowse demos that
come with AmiKit for a while (typing this into AWEB).

Amiga.org does not look bad on either and the speed
is acceptable for most things so far.

I am getting so sick of Windows, I plan to use AmiKit
a lot more for a while.
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2007, 09:13:12 AM »
I always found Voyager to be the best, if not extrely crash prone.  Pity dev stopped on it.  Bought the keyfile and everything
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2007, 09:21:49 AM »
@Piru

Well, there is something going on - link... Probably...
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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2007, 09:22:55 AM »
@Tomas

You can run Sputnik on Amiga.
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