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Timberwolf (Firefox) Beta For AmigaOS

Posted by Unknown on from the what-else-are-you-gonna-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "News from the world of AmigaOS that the Beta version of Timberwolf (a.k.a. Firefox) was made available last month." Timberwolf is a port of Firefox to the AmigaOS (the name change is for similar reasons to Debian's use of Iceweasel name) and has been under development for quite some time. The AmigaBounty project page has screenshots and even more info for those interested. There's a video of the browser in action, but beware of the cheesy soundtrack.

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  1. Does the Amiga OS by geekoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    have any inherent advantage over other modern OS?

    I get people like to do this stuff for fun and nostalgia. That's fine. It's just been so long since I have used an Amiga I can't think of anything today that it does better then Win7/OSX/Linux

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  2. Wait ... by lennier1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do newer Amiga systems even have enough memory to handle the memory leaks in Firefox' add-on system?

    1. Re:Wait ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No matter how many articles come out that show Firefox's memory management to be competitive there's always going to be clueless trolls like you that are stuck in an infinite loop. Trolls to say something stupid and trolls to mod it Insightful.

      Why don't you tell Adam he doesn't know WTF he's doing: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-17-firefox-10-ubuntu,3129-14.html

  3. Re:So? by philip.paradis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I care. Other /. members apparently care. Since you don't care, why did you waste your time posting a comment?

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