Firefox Runs on Haiku

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Apr 2006 11:58 UTC, submitted by MYOB

In a post to the Haiku mailing list, Simon Taylor has provided a screenshot which he has entitled 'interesting', of Firefox running on Haiku. It's displaying the manual for Gobe Productive off his own hard drive, as Simon is unable to access the internet from Haiku - no dialup internet is supported - and he doesn't think that networking is going to work anyway. Only one bug in the tree required fixing for the browser to run, and it now joins NetPositive as a supported browser on the platform.

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More screenshots

by Polari on Mon 17th Apr 2006 12:15 UTC

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2006-02-24

There's also these ones by "umccullough" http://www.flickr.com/photos/82946018@N00/ featuring this very site.

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RE: More screenshots

by Zenja on Mon 17th Apr 2006 12:34 UTC in reply to "More screenshots"

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Haiku running Firefox browsing OSNews.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=129587567&size=o"

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Congrats

by jeanmarc on Mon 17th Apr 2006 12:19 UTC

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Firefox is a huge achievement, things are really getting exciting. Nowadays, a modern browser is as important as the OS itself, congratulations to the BeZilla team and to the Haiku's devs.

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Weeeeeh :D

by dylansmrjones on Mon 17th Apr 2006 12:20 UTC

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That's the greatest news in here for quite some time

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How do you start networking?

by LGordon on Mon 17th Apr 2006 12:43 UTC

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I've been using the VMWare images off of schmidp.com - does anyone know if there's a way to get the networking to work with VMWare yet?

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RE: How do you start networking?

by red_devel on Mon 17th Apr 2006 13:02 UTC in reply to "How do you start networking?"

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Sadly no, the VMWare driver is, afaik, unsupported.

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RE: How do you start networking?

by umccullough on Mon 17th Apr 2006 15:23 UTC in reply to "How do you start networking?"

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I was able to get networking working using an SMC1211TX card (rtl8139 chipset)...

Just a matter of running ifconfig, route, and editing resolv.conf for me and then a little bit of praying that nothing would crash

http://www.teamhaiku.org

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one small bug for mozilla......

by El-Al on Mon 17th Apr 2006 13:04 UTC

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2006-04-17

...a giant leap for Haiku

Seriously though, you guys are doing a fantastic job!!

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Springtime for Haiku

by jonas.kirilla on Mon 17th Apr 2006 13:46 UTC

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News flash! It net-WORKS.

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RE: Springtime for Haiku

by computrius on Mon 17th Apr 2006 17:07 UTC in reply to "Springtime for Haiku"

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That horrible pun should be modded down to -9999 lol

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RE: Springtime for Haiku

by dylansmrjones on Mon 17th Apr 2006 18:08 UTC in reply to "Springtime for Haiku"

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Doh

Trust a swede to come up with something like that

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RE[2]: Springtime for Haiku

by jonas.kirilla on Tue 18th Apr 2006 10:58 UTC in reply to "RE: Springtime for Haiku"

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But but... Spring blossom is a Haiku theme!

Mel Brooks, anno 1968, how can that be offensive?

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RE[3]: Springtime for Haiku

by dylansmrjones on Tue 18th Apr 2006 12:41 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Springtime for Haiku"

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It's not offensive, but doooh

You'll do just fine whenever you visit Copenhagen

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RE[4]: Springtime for Haiku

by jonas.kirilla on Wed 19th Apr 2006 00:35 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Springtime for Haiku"

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And I'm only 3/8's Danish. Watch out when the rest of me catches up!

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RE[3]: Springtime for Haiku

by StephenBeDoper on Wed 19th Apr 2006 02:46 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Springtime for Haiku"

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I liked it. But then I giggle everytime I hear the Firesign Theatre's "May I take your hat and goat, sir?" bit.

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Very impressive

by Sandwich Boy on Mon 17th Apr 2006 14:59 UTC

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Firefox on Haiku is now more stable than my copy on XP...

I gotta go post this to BeOSNews. Except Firefox crashes if I do anything significant. And cursing out the developers via feedback doesn't seem to help.

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RE: Very impressive

by berzerko on Mon 17th Apr 2006 15:41 UTC in reply to "Very impressive"

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"Firefox on Haiku is now more stable than my copy on XP... Except Firefox crashes if I do anything significant"

So how can it be more stable?

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RE[2]: Very impressive

by Ronald Vos on Mon 17th Apr 2006 18:59 UTC in reply to "RE: Very impressive"

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"Firefox on Haiku is now more stable than my copy on XP... Except Firefox crashes if I do anything significant"

So how can it be more stable?

A paradox! Observe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour#Humour_formula

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RE[2]: Very impressive

by Soulbender on Tue 18th Apr 2006 05:31 UTC in reply to "RE: Very impressive"

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"So how can it be more stable?"

Because there's nothing significant to do in Windows XP.

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RE: Very impressive

by Soulbender on Tue 18th Apr 2006 05:30 UTC in reply to "Very impressive"

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"And cursing out the developers via feedback doesn't seem to help."

Because cursing people who work on something on their free time and for free ALWAYS works really well....

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RE[2]: Very impressive

by StephenBeDoper on Wed 19th Apr 2006 02:48 UTC in reply to "RE: Very impressive"

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Uh oh, looks like Jason forgot the "obviously joking" markup again. Tsk, tsk. Tsk, I say!

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Because it crashes on XP

by Sandwich Boy on Mon 17th Apr 2006 17:12 UTC

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if I do anything significant.

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RE: Because it crashes on XP

by dylansmrjones on Mon 17th Apr 2006 17:36 UTC in reply to "Because it crashes on XP "

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Aahhh...

It's the XP-version of Firefox that keeps crashing, while the Haiku/BeOS-version keeps running, right?

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