Timberwolf at Amiwest?

[ddniUK]

I watched the Amiwest streams, listening intently for any discussion on Timberwolf. I didn't hear any mention of it.

Was it discussed? Was any update or news provided?

Thanks.

[eliyahu]

I watched the Amiwest streams, listening intently for any discussion on Timberwolf. I didn't hear any mention of it.

Was it discussed? Was any update or news provided?

if there was, i didn't hear it.

the good news is that odyssey works so well for so many, that the need we had for timberwolf is no longer as strong (at least IMO). that said i know at least one developer who has access to the source code and wants to start working on it again once other amiga-related work calms down a bit.

-- eliyahu

[Rob]

I watched the Amiwest streams, listening intently for any discussion on Timberwolf. I didn't hear any mention of it.

Was it discussed? Was any update or news provided?

Thanks.

I don't recall where I read it but Steve Solie recently said that there wasn't a team assembled and working on it yet.

[eliyahu]

@ddniUK

number6 just pointed me to where ssolie was talking about it on AWN (link):

Would further funding speed up the process of bringing Timberwolf up to date and ready for release?

Not  at this moment. What I need to do is put together a team to work on it  and I just haven't done that yet. My real life paying job has priority  in these cases...

-- eliyahu

[klx300r]

really hope it gets to that next step as Firefox is my preferred IB on my work system.  As it is now it runs good & fast on my X1000 & I can run all my favourite add-ons but occcasionally I'll get 100% CPU usage and temporary hangups.  Was hoping the last 2 years the bros would find time for it but I understand an illness & working on OS4.2 and new drivers for X5000 series would put TW on the back shelf for a while.

[amoskodare]

Also, if I remember right SSolie mentioned something like:

In the meantime we have Odyssey, which works great, so there isn't really any big hurry at this point, we have more urgent stuff to fix...

Something like that, I can't find the exact quote right now so take it with a big grane of salt

IIRC

[TeamBlackFox]

Well as an interim, if you want an updated build of Firefox, you can always setup an OpenBSD server and use SSH and AmiCygnix to do a remote X11 session over your LAN.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Now just port it to classic systems and we've got ourselves a win.  

[Yasu]

I'm curious, if Timberwolf ironed out it's current bugs and optimised the code so it would be just as stable and fast as OWB: which of the two web browsers would objetively be the better one?

[eliyahu]

I'm curious, if Timberwolf ironed out it's current bugs and optimised the code so it would be just as stable and fast as OWB: which of the two web browsers would objetively be the better one?

i'd probably argue odyssey, frankly. timberwolf is based on a rather old firefox code base. besides odyssey has an amiga GUI whereas timberwolf doesn't.

that said timberwolf has much better bookmark management, compatibility with firefox addons, is more configurable, etc. so i guess it depends on what you want. for me, if performance/stability were the same, i'd probably stick with odyssey since i prefer having an amiga GUI. but others may feel differently and prefer the additional features timberwolf/firefox offers.

-- eliyahu

[Yasu]

Thanks for the clear and nicely argued answer

[ddniUK]

One big difference for me is that Odyssey cannot access the Aeon login page, whereas TW can.

Just me?

[amigakit]

Hi

After I spotted your report, I immediately fired up Odyssey on AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6.

I can confirm User Login function works OK here with secure download server.  PMail me so we can work out your access issue.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Now that's customer service.  

[SteveH]

I'd like to be able to use the Zotero in-browser referencing add-on, which is more likely to work under Timberwolf than Odyssey (it doesn't work on either at present). At the moment, I use both - Odyssey seems to render some sites more accurately but Timberwolf's add-on capability is better.
As the previous posters have said, it depends what you want to do.