Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67377

    Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running

    Phoronix: Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...

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  • Daktyl198
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2013
    • 1584

    #2
    They've already had Falkon running for a while, and it runs better than IceWeasel does at the moment at least in regards to things like youtube playback.

    But always nice to see Haiku progressing. As ChromeOS has shown, once you have a working modern browser, you're almost ready to be a daily driver OS.

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    • ehansin
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2016
      • 698

      #3
      An operating system
      by name of Haiku.
      Runs Iceweasel - it is true!

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      • NateHubbard
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2015
        • 588

        #4
        Originally posted by Daktyl198 View Post
        As ChromeOS has shown, once you have a working modern browser, you're almost ready to be a daily driver OS.
        Linux showed that back in the mid 90s. If it wasn't for Netscape running on it, we probably wouldn't be talking about it as anything but an obscure server OS.

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        • oleid
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2007
          • 2521

          #5
          Originally posted by ehansin View Post
          An operating system
          by name of Haiku.
          Runs Iceweasel - it is true!
          Haiku OS evolves,
          Iceweasel sails smoothly
          Stability blooms.​
          Last edited by oleid; 14 January 2025, 10:41 AM.

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          • cb88
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2009
            • 1347

            #6
            So when can they finally admit that immediate mode rendering is obsolete, instead of coming back with windows 9x and XP era arguments against acceleration?

            The package file system still sucks also and was a colossal waste of time... I wish someone would just take thier build system and port it to pacman from Arch + ZFS or some other versioning file system to implement snapshot roll backs so they can get rid of the kluge...

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            • S.Pam
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2018
              • 687

              #7
              Originally posted by cb88 View Post
              So when can they finally admit that immediate mode rendering is obsolete, instead of coming back with windows 9x and XP era arguments against acceleration?

              The package file system still sucks also and was a colossal waste of time... I wish someone would just take thier build system and port it to pacman from Arch + ZFS or some other versioning file system to implement snapshot roll backs so they can get rid of the kluge...
              What's wrong with the package fs? I thought it already supported rollback.

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              • cb88
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2009
                • 1347

                #8
                Originally posted by S.Pam View Post

                What's wrong with the package fs? I thought it already supported rollback.
                The main thing wrong with it is it makes common sense configuration folders read only by default... and you have to put any configs into non-packaged folders. Its close to the worst way to do this for an OS that was supposed to be for "power users"

                A better way would have been to have the default path always take precedence but have virtual packaged paths for read only copies of config files if they have been overwritten by a local copy.

                The other thing wrong with it is a decade of wasted time optimizing memory use for it to till pretty much double the memory requirements....

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                • Vistaus
                  Senior Member
                  • Jul 2013
                  • 5112

                  #9
                  Originally posted by S.Pam View Post

                  I thought it already supported rollback.
                  Indeed it does.

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                  • eltomito
                    Senior Member
                    • Jul 2013
                    • 126

                    #10
                    A weasel lights up
                    playful primate faces
                    though users are none

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