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  • Re: VOICE browser

    From Holger Granholm@2:20/228 to Uucp@1:3634/1000 on Fri Apr 13 09:26:00 2018
    In a message on 04-05-18 feedback@os2voice.org said to All:

    feedback> SUBJECT: SW: VOICE browser funding campaign update
    feedback> 4 with N ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service
    feedback> http://www.os2voice.org ++

    feedback> We have currently collected $12,650.00 for the project.

    Hmmm, what's wrong with Mozilla Firefox for OS/2? Or Opera for OS/2?


    Have a nice day,

    Holger


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  • From Joseph Evans@1:218/700 to Holger Granholm on Tue Aug 24 19:51:08 2021
    Re: Re: VOICE browser
    By: Holger Granholm to Uucp@1:3634/1000 on Fri Apr 13 2018 09:26 am

    Hmmm, what's wrong with Mozilla Firefox for OS/2? Or Opera for OS/2?

    I'm sure for 'future proofing' reasons that they have decided to go
    with a WebKit-based browser.

    Their folly now is that ArcaOS is still 32-bit with a 4 gigabyte RAM limitation. At the very least they allow you to address the unusable
    space as a RAM drive. ;-D


    Joe
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  • From Guest@1:396/45 to Joseph Evans on Fri May 13 08:34:56 2022
    Hmmm, what's wrong with Mozilla Firefox for OS/2? Or Opera for OS/2?

    I'm sure for 'future proofing' reasons that they have decided to go
    with a WebKit-based browser.

    Firefox is made with the Rust compiler since a certain FF version. To
    continue offering Firefox for OS/2, you'd need to port the Rust compiler to
    OS/2 also. Unfortunately it's got that many dependencies, that nobody could
    ever keep the compiler up 2 date.... rather than Firefox.

    That's why Firefox is no longer being ported to OS/2.

    Vassili Simpson
    Hello.
    Can you please tell me why there is no more Vassili Simpson (me)

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