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Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by squarefoot »

chucky wrote: post #7
rvnx wrote: post #3

Beautiful to see such passion and great execution, especially for 20 years in a row. It's like a piece of art. I suspect the company that created BeOS actually lost the source-code and that's potentially the real reason they don't want to share, because from an economic perspective there does not seem anything of value there.

I think it's more likely the original BeOS source code contains proprietary code licensed from third-parties, which means someone would have to spend significant effort on figuring out what can and cannot be released.

Just another proof that copyright laws must be heavily reformed asap because they continue to harm development also in cases where any reason of protecting some company's IP is long gone.

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by popcalc »

DaoVeles wrote: post #8

I have said it before, Haiku feels like it is simultaneously 20 years in the future and 20 years in the past. The interface is so incredibly snappy but there is a lot of basics missing such as WiFi support. Seeing a modern browser supported does fill a big gap however. Who knows maybe one day through a series of silly unpredictable events it will be the OS of choice and running Ladybird browser in a similar fashion.

>WiFi support

Works on my old Thinkpads.

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by BlackLotus89 »

DaoVeles wrote: post #8

I have said it before, Haiku feels like it is simultaneously 20 years in the future and 20 years in the past. The interface is so incredibly snappy but there is a lot of basics missing such as WiFi support. Seeing a modern browser supported does fill a big gap however. Who knows maybe one day through a series of silly unpredictable events it will be the OS of choice and running Ladybird browser in a similar fashion.

WiFi support missing? Afaik it uses *BSD network "drivers" and I remember having a wifi dialog/support

Edit: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-wlan.htm... here wifi seems to be working (which another commenter pointed out as well)

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by kryptiskt »

rvnx wrote: post #3

Beautiful to see such passion and great execution, especially for 20 years in a row. It's like a piece of art. I suspect the company that created BeOS actually lost the source-code and that's potentially the real reason they don't want to share, because from an economic perspective there does not seem anything of value there.

Palm bought BeOS back in the day, but they didn't do anything with it. It was spun out with the PalmOS into Palmsource when Palm went to other OSes, so it didn't follow the rest of Palm into HP (and then LG). Palmsource was then swallowed by a Japanese company called Access, which was and apparently still is making a browser for embedded applications called Netfront.

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by BlackLotus89 »

beretguy wrote: post #12
csoup2 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sidebery/

I don’t need vertical tabs. I need native support for tab groups like Firefox USED TO HAVE. Even safari on iOS has tab groups.

Sidebery supports tree style tabs so tabs opened from a specific site are nested below that tab. Is this what you want? Or something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... ?

I can't remember firefox ever having something like tab groups. When was this/How was this implemented. Seems like a feature which I would have liked/used

Edit: Oh wow it was Tab Panorama and I faintly feel like I used it... Damn

https://geekitdown.com/how-to-firefox-panorama-group-tabs/

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by drooopy »

DaoVeles wrote: post #8

I have said it before, Haiku feels like it is simultaneously 20 years in the future and 20 years in the past. The interface is so incredibly snappy but there is a lot of basics missing such as WiFi support. Seeing a modern browser supported does fill a big gap however. Who knows maybe one day through a series of silly unpredictable events it will be the OS of choice and running Ladybird browser in a similar fashion.

I absolutely adore the way that HaikuOS looks and feels. It's like a direct evolution of the classic Mac OS UI. So incredibly snappy and responsive and with minimal visual clutter. I keep an old thinkpad around with Haiku just for when I need to do word processing with no distractions.

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by Beijinger »

DaoVeles wrote: post #8

I have said it before, Haiku feels like it is simultaneously 20 years in the future and 20 years in the past. The interface is so incredibly snappy but there is a lot of basics missing such as WiFi support. Seeing a modern browser supported does fill a big gap however. Who knows maybe one day through a series of silly unpredictable events it will be the OS of choice and running Ladybird browser in a similar fashion.

If you like Snappy, try Bodhi Linux with the Mosksha desktop.

https://www.bodhilinux.com/

Re: Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

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Post by tetris11 »

DaoVeles wrote: post #8

I have said it before, Haiku feels like it is simultaneously 20 years in the future and 20 years in the past. The interface is so incredibly snappy but there is a lot of basics missing such as WiFi support. Seeing a modern browser supported does fill a big gap however. Who knows maybe one day through a series of silly unpredictable events it will be the OS of choice and running Ladybird browser in a similar fashion.

Is there good laptop support? By that I specifically mean, good power control management and display brightness control.
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