Project Timberwolf - Firefox for AmigaOS4.1

[Troels_E]

Project Timberwolf

Finally, the port of one of the most wanted software for
AmigaOS 4.1 has been tackled! The well known AmigaOS developers
Hans-Joerg Frieden and Thomas Frieden work already since
quite some time on a fully AmigaOS native port of Mozillas'
Firefox webbrowser!

Because of the unrealistic terms and conditions of the AmiZilla
bounty, it was decided to start a new bounty only for AmigaOS 4.1
and beyond. Thus this bounty is in no way related to AmiZilla.

Timberwolf is the project name of the AmigaOS port of the Firefox web
browser (for legal reasons it cannot be called Firefox). Firefox is an
award-winning open source web browser and is the de-facto-standard
browser across a wide variety of operating system, taking second place
in popularity after Microsoft' s Internet Explorer. Its features include
tabbed browsing, support for HTML 5, ECMAScript 3.1, and CSS 3,
extensibility through addons, and a lot more. In short, Firefox is the
most complete open source browser to date.

 Project: Timberwolf

[Dragster]

Oh man! This is awesome!!!
 
The Frieden's roool!
 
Yeah!!!!!
 
 
It's time to add  some cash to that bounty

[Karlos]

Blimey, I go to visit my bro for a few days and miss this? :lol:

[klx300r]

OMG!!!!!!! Frikkin AWESOME NEWS BABY :-)

[spihunter]

Good news for the folks that shelled out all that cash for an A1 or Sam board . They at least should get a modern browser with that setup!. It will be interesting to see if they leave any code open for AROS/MOS folks to look at?

[BooBoo1200]

Sounds great :-)
Ill believe it when I see it
Go TripOS 4.1+ ;-)

[Pete_Noir]

Great news. Will be a good incentive for people to get 4.1

[Akiko]

Absolutely fantastic news.

One step closer to retiring my PC forever! :-)

[A1260]

great news!

[persia]

The only advantage to Firefox are the plug ins, will they work?

[Matt_H]

Sorry to bring down the mood, but...

Because of the unrealistic terms and conditions of the AmiZilla
bounty, it was decided to start a new bounty only for AmigaOS 4.1
and beyond. Thus this bounty is in no way related to AmiZilla.

Are you kidding me? Clean code, OS3/OS4/MOS compatibility, and a split of bounty funds proportional to individuals' effort involved are "unrealistic terms"? If there's one thing we Amigans are great at, it's wasting resources on duplicate efforts. Is it really so unreasonable to have a single bounty for Mozilla on the Amiga? Even an OS4-only version of AmiZilla is still worth ~$2500.

The port should not depend on any emulation techniques like using an X server or GTK; the goal is to make a real port that has as many AmigaOS specific features as possible.

Good! I assume that means it won't be using any of those sloppy SObjs either.

Again, sorry about the negativity. Sincere kudos to the developers for their milestone, but can't we have some Amiga-wide cooperation for once?

[TheMagicM]

Sorry to bring down the mood, but...


Are you kidding me? Clean code, OS3/OS4/MOS compatibility, and a split of bounty funds proportional to individuals' effort involved are "unrealistic terms"? If there's one thing we Amigans are great at, it's wasting resources on duplicate efforts. Is it really so unreasonable to have a single bounty for Mozilla on the Amiga? Even an OS4-only version of AmiZilla is still worth ~$2500.

$2500?  What if the new bounty they set up ends up having more than $2500 in it?  (If I'm understanding you correctly, meaning thats the max they'd get under the AmiZilla bounty).  See what I'm getting at?

As a good gesture, AmiZilla should transfer $2500 to the new bounty for this browser.

[Golem!dk]

$2500?  What if the new bounty they set up ends up having more than $2500 in it?  (If I'm understanding you correctly, meaning thats the max they'd get under the AmiZilla bounty).  See what I'm getting at?

As a good gesture, AmiZilla should transfer $2500 to the new bounty for this browser.

With parts of the source staying closed? How do you imagine donors will feel about that?

[hooligan]

With parts of the source staying closed? How do you imagine donors will feel about that?

They are jumping from joy and happiness, finally those blue trolls and aros-suckers are getting NUTTIN while OS4-users gets to eat the cookie

[takemehomegrandma]

for legal reasons it cannot be called Firefox

What legal reasons exactly? It's called Firefox on all the other platforms, yes? Is it because they don't want to contribute back their own complete sources to this *open source* project?

Are you kidding me? Clean code, OS3/OS4/MOS compatibility, and a split of bounty funds proportional to individuals' effort involved are "unrealistic terms"? Is it really so unreasonable to have a single bounty for Mozilla on the Amiga? Even an OS4-only version of AmiZilla is still worth ~$2500.

As a good gesture, AmiZilla should transfer $2500 to the new bounty for this browser.

Absolutely not, that would be outright criminal! The AmiZilla bounty clearly constitutes the goal of *including all Amiga flavors*, in the *true spirit* of open source. This is what people donated their money to, and to use *that* money for something else, something like "we are using these open sources developed by so many people for so many years to create something that will be *exclusive* to us, and you can't have access to it" would be fraudulent. That's not why people donated money to the AmiZilla bounty. Make it *a true* open source project instead of searching for legal loop holes, and they can have *the whole* AmiZilla bounty for all I care. That's the spirit of open source, and that's the spirit of the AmiZilla bounty. But it's exactly this they consider "unrealistic terms", this whole open source thing. I see no "good gesture" about this project at all...

With parts of the source staying closed?

Here is a wild guess: Everything needed to build the open source Firefox browser on an Amiga platform?