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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."

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  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

  2. great - I was bored of 1.0 ! by DrSkwid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    hope it includes SVG

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  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*

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  5. 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)