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Roll Your Own Browser

Posted by timothy on from the picture-your-own-throbber dept.

davidwboswell writes "Oreillynet is running an article about how to create your own browser with Mozilla. This is a follow-up to a previous article that surveyed many of the alternate Mozilla browsers currently available including Chimera, Galeon, Phoenix and Aphrodite."

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  1. How to name your browser by tmark · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a followup, Richard Stallman indicated that if you use Emacs or any of a laundry list of utilities in modifying said Mozilla, the resulting browser name must be prefixed with 'GNU'.

  2. Rejected submission. You bastards. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    2002-09-25 15:02:41 Hackers Fuck with Mozilla, Get Baby Browsers (articles,news) (rejected)

  3. why is that... by g0st · · Score: 5, Funny

    why is it that all alternative browers sound like topless dancer names? opereta, phoenix, aphrodite..

    1. Re:why is that... by BlueGecko · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, at least on my OS X system, it might have something to do with the fact that if you type "top" in the terminal, Mozilla is always listed as having really big numbers...

  4. Re:my 0.2� by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny
    Tonight on DIY: How to make your own browser, using only Mozila!

    Tomorrow on DIY: How to make a working automobile, starting with nothing but a brand new Nissan Maxima.

    Friday on DIY: How to make a Pizza with nothing but a phone and $15.

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  5. Re:dreaming of centralized cookies and bookmarks by digidave · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, all we need is some kind of centralized login system to do this. It could hold all of our browser data, credit card number, etc to make browsing the web easier.

    Now all we need to find is a company that wants to write software to control all online transactions, profide centralized login and store our private information.

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  6. Re:my 0.2� by be-fan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because consistancy is important in asthetics. I'd really hate to see what you're house looks like...

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