@mwoof

Or run FF via VNC untill a native version appears.

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@afxgroup

Hope you make progress

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@afxgroup

I know you released OWB (thank you for that ), but wondering why you switched gears from working on Firefox and GTK ports to OWB?

Anything specific? Were you able to complete the gtk2 port, or hand off to the AmiZilla guys?

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@wegster

I haven't seen anything significant cross the Amizilla mailing list in months. I'm guessing Webkit was less troublesome to port.

That said, I realized from this thread that NSPR has been ported twice now: once by the Friedens, and once by "Jeff" on the Amizilla mailing list, who disappeared soon thereafter.

I'd be interested in hearing about the differences between the Frieden's NSPR port and the Amizilla port, which should (according to the rules) have been 3.1 compatible.

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@Legion

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I'm guessing Webkit was less troublesome to port.

Sure, I have no doubts you're right, but sadly, it's not a complete browser, by any means.

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That said, I realized from this thread that NSPR has been ported twice now: once by the Friedens, and once by "Jeff" on the Amizilla mailing list, who disappeared soon thereafter.

Yep. And sadly as well, it seems quite often that people re-invent the wheel, not necessarily always intentionally, but not knowing that others may be working on the same thing, which is why I tend to ask questions now and then on status - even if Andreas/afxgroup abandoned his FireFox attempt, perhaps there are some dependencies that he did complete that could be shared with others?

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@wegster

i'm waiting for the new cairo port to OS4..
maybe will be faster to switch to FF3 that use cairo .. and however the last GTK version should be more simply to port instead the previous one..

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@Swoop

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So, what is the difference between a shared library and one of these shared object files? Is .so just another name for a shared library?

An Amiga shared library is loaded into memory once and can be used by all programs. That saves memory and disk space compared to libraries that are linked into a program when it is compiled. Programs that use shared libraries are smaller on disk and in memory.

Shared object files are loaded into memory by each program that uses them. Programs are smaller on disk, but use just as much memory as linking the libraries (object files) into the program when it's compiled. Since hard-disk space is almost unlimited nowadays but memory is still precious, shared objects don't seem like the most effecient solution.

Since there are few Amiga programmers and many Linux programmers, porting Linux programs is the only practical way to modernize Amiga. Shared objects should make it quicker and easier to port programs. They should also be easier to update and maintain. I'm not an expert, but I think that a lot of the libraries that would be used by a complicated program like FireFox would be of little or no use to other programs and there would be no advantage to converting them to Amiga shared libraries. Shared libraries offer little or no benefit if they aren't going to be used by multiple programs or multiple copies of one program.

Correct me if I'm wrong about shared objects but I think my comments are more or less accurate. We need the ported Linux programs.

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@afxgroup

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afxgroup wrote: @wegster i'm waiting for the new cairo port to OS4..

New Cairo port?

Hans

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An uptodate Cairo with a proper Amiga backend would be very, very welcome here.

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@afxgroup

Who is working on Cairo?

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