This document contains a brief list of the most important OS/2-specific changes
in the Mozilla product series from release to release.


CHANGES

Firefox 17.0.5 Beta 2 (2014-02-19)

  - Fix crash in Print dialog when no printers installed.

  - Port IPC libraries used by the OOP (out-of-process) technology to OS/2.

  - Make Flash plugin work (non-OOP mode by default due to bugs in MMPM).

  - Add EXCEPTQ support to generate verbose trap reports.

  - Fix distorted application icon.

Firefox 17.0.5 Beta (2013-11-04)

  - First public release of Firefox 17 for OS/2.

  - Make new IPC code work on OS/2 (used by the Content Processes feature and
    others).

Firefox 10.0.12 and below

  - See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Ports/os2/ for more information.



Firefox 17.0.5 for eCS (OS/2) Beta 2
Herwig Bauernfeind 	
Feb 21
https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/releases/tag/FIREFOX_17_0_5esr_RELEASE_OS2_Beta_2


This is the second beta release of Firefox for eCS (OS/2) version
17.0.5. It fixes a number of bugs discovered in the first beta,
introduces OS/2 support for the OOP (out-of-process) technology and
makes the Flash plugin work.

The CHANGES.OS2 file contains more detailed list of changes.

This is a beta release meaning that not all functions work properly. In
particular, there are the following limitations:

    Due to bugs in MMPM, the current version of Firefox runs the Flash plugin in
    "in-process" (traditional) mode instead of the new OOP (out-of-process) mode
    used on other platforms. This will be fixed in future releases.

    The OpenJDK (Java) plugin works but there are some problems with window
    updates. This is to be addressed in future releases.

    The @font-face HTML attribute is not yet supported. As a result, tiny boxes
    with hex numbers are displayed instead of characters on pages that use it.

    Fonts with names containing special characters (like Asian Unicode names)
    will not display correctly in the list of fonts in the Options panel.

    Mozilla apps will beep when copying more than 64 kB of text to the clipboard.
    This is to alert users that many applications (most notably the system
    editor, EPM, and applications running in VIO windows) cannot paste more
    than this.

    Other known problems can be found by following the link "Current Open
    Warpzilla Bugs" on the OS/2 Mozilla page http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/.

The list of prerequisites for this version is as follows (sorry, GitHub
has a surprising bug that prevents making clickable FTP links here so
you have to copy-paste them):

    LIBC 0.6.5 Runtime - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_5-csd5.wpi
    Freetype Runtume - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/MZFNTCFGFT_RUNTIME-0-0-1.wpi

Also, if you don't use RPM/YUM, you will need the following DLLs:

    pthread v.20120924
    mmap v.20111102
    GCC 4.4.6 Runtime

If you do have RPM/YUM installed, you may still need to do yum install
pthread mmap libgcc446 libstdc++ in order to run Firefox.

Please refer to README.OS2 for more information about this release and
for detailed installation instructions.