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Mozilla 1.3 Port Available For FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the arrr dept.

Dan writes "Joe Marcus Clarke announces the availability of Mozilla 1.3 port for FreeBSD. Windows, MacOSX and Linux versions of Mozilla 1.3 were originally released on March 13. Although the port is scheduled to be committed as part of FreeBSD 4.8 Release, diffs for 1.3 are readily available. Galeon2 diff has also been updated for the Mozilla port. Key enhancements include junk mail filtering and API for rich text editing."

23 comments

  1. Also in NetBSD pkgsrc by LizardKing · · Score: 5, Informative

    The native Mozilla in NetBSD's pkgsrc has also been updated to 1.3 - I've been running it without any problems for a couple of days now on 1.6. Locks up occasionally on -current, but that's because the new scheduler activations are not entirely happy with it.

    Chris

    1. Re:Also in NetBSD pkgsrc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Elegy For *BSD

      I am a *BSD user
      and I try hard to be brave
      That is a tall order
      *BSD's foot is in the grave.

      I tap at my toy keyboard
      and whistle a happy tune
      but keeping happy's so hard,
      *BSD died so soon.

      Each day I wake and softly sob
      Nightfall finds me crying
      Not only am I a zit faced slob
      but *BSD is dying.
  2. great - I was bored of 1.0 ! by DrSkwid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    hope it includes SVG

    --
    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  3. OpenBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Any idea when/if Mozilla will run on OpenBSD?

    1. Re:OpenBSD? by vesamies · · Score: 1

      To my understanding, C++ programs using shared libraries do not work (correctly) in OpenBSD, and this is why Mozilla also does not work. [I'm not sure if this is totally accurate as I'm not a developer of these softwares.] Therefore, it is OpenBSD that needs to be fixed and not Mozilla. Wait for the next release of OpenBSD...

    2. Re:OpenBSD? by big_groo · · Score: 4, Informative
      Not sure if this is a troll or not, but here goes:

      Um...now?

      Note, that this is a hack, not an actual port.

    3. Re:OpenBSD? by evilviper · · Score: 1
      Therefore, it is OpenBSD that needs to be fixed and not Mozilla.

      There is nothing wrong with OpenBSD... Do not attempt to adjust your computer.

      It is true that OpenBSD does things a bit differently than other OSes, but that's nothing strange, it's just that FreeBSD and NetBSD have enough developers to port everything, while OpenBSD does not. In fact, search bugzilla for OpenBSD, and you will find the OpenBSD bug report, it just hasn't got enough votes to be a high priority for the Mozilla team.
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  4. My favorite feature in 1.3 by arvindn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can disable automatic type-ahead find and trigger it with a single quote instead. And you can use '/' for searching normal text on the page. Very cool how fast open source responds to user feedback :)

    1. Re:My favorite feature in 1.3 by MavEtJu · · Score: 1

      Ha, it's getting better and better!
      *tosses the mouse out of the house*

      --
      bash$ :(){ :|:&};:
  5. Cool! But how di I install it now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do I have to patch all the diff files! That is not an easy task. Any unofficial package out there? Oh, I don't want to wait until the changes are commited. Is there an easy way?

    1. Re:Cool! But how di I install it now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1. cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-devel
      2. make
      3. (remove old version of Mozilla)
      4. make install

      It takes some time to compile, so there will be a wait at step 2. I am compiling the new Mozilla now, and am using FreeBSD version 4.7.

  6. I was tired of waiting... by Fez · · Score: 2, Informative

    I compiled it on my own using the patches from the latest mozilla-devel port. Worked like a charm. Seemed to take less time to compile than 1.1 did, even.

    Now that I'm running Xfree86 4.3.0, and Mozilla 1.3 everything looks much, much better than it did before. (Thanks largely to Xft)

  7. Is there a gui version available? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can cope with a text only version for a while longer.

  8. just wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    why doesn't a freebsd port exist at mozilla.org? how much a change takes place between a freebsd port and a some other unix/unix like port?

  9. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying