Mozilla Firefox

About
Development of Firefox represents part of a long term effort to bring new applications to RISC OS and has involved significant time and effort to date. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

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Mozilla Firefox 2 Non-RiscPC
For IYONIX pc, A9home, Omega. and VirtualRPC (StrongARM version only). This will not work on RiscPCs.

Release 8 for RISC OS (August 3rd 2009, upstream 2.0.0.20):


 * Via RiscPkg - http://www.riscos.info/packages/


 * Directly - Firefox 2 for RISC OS Release 8.

This is a bug fix release only. Ensure you read the included !Help for full documentation and specific details of changes and history.

Releases 1 and 2 have been deprecated, since they offer no benefit over this version.


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Mozilla Firefox 2 RiscPC
This version is suitable for RiscPCs and older versions of VirtualRPC. It will work on newer systems, but with more limited performance. This version has been provided only because its use on such machines is preferable to the older 1.5 versions which have many issues (both in the RISC OS version and mainstream). Even so, most users will find performance unacceptably slow on sub-300MHz machines

You will need RISC OS 4 or later.


 * Directly - Firefox 2 for RISC OS Release 4.


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Installing and using Firefox 2
Download all the necessary parts. As well as the Firefox application you will also need:


 * Tinct – A module for high speed sprite plotting and image enhancement
 * SharedUnixLibrary – UnixLib C library support module

ELFLoader and UnixHome are not required for this release.
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Building Firefox 2 from source
Firefox 2 can be built from source with patches in the GCCSDK Autobuilder. Follow the Using GCCSDK tutorial for details.

The autobuilder also includes patches for Thunderbird which is based on the same sources, and Firefox 3.6 (see below).
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Experimental Versions
Experimental versions may exist for testing of new developments. Often, these are an executable only, which should be replace the one from the most recent release. These versions are discussed on the GCCSDK mailing list.

Firefox for RISC OS Roadmap
This outlines plans and progress to move Mozilla Firefox forward on RISC OS, and to improve its obvious deficiencies. This will be regularly updated to indicate progress.