Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:55:29 +0100 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] General: Firefox web browser, we need your donation! ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: rwkleinDESPAM at DESPAMmensys.nl Hello everybody, I'm sending out this email on behalf of the Mensys and Bitwise GmbH. For the people who follow the Mozilla OS/2 newsgroup its quite obvious it's taking more and more effort to compile current versions of the Firefox web browser from the Mozilla foundation. Also there are some stability issue's. Bitwise GmbH is working on Firefox so we as commuity can easly compile it again for OS/2 and eComStation. What will be done are the following issue's: * Clean up the build enviroment. with which Firefox is compiled. * Currently the Mozilla foundation is thinking of removing the OS/2 support from the source code repository. The reason for this is because we have patches in the OS/2 enviroment we need to rewrite. These patches also make it difficult to compile a stable web browser. * What will also be implemented is IPC support. This will mean that if one browser tab in Firefox crashes it will not make your web browser crash. The total goal is to get the current Firefox version compiling again on OS/2/eComStation. The amount of money we need is 8000 Euro for 3 months of full work on Firefox. You can buy sponsorunits via the Mensys shop: http://www.mensys.com/shop/NetlabsJava6 While the webpage mentions only Java 6. All money will be used for the Firefox deveopment. 100% of your donation will be send to Bitwise GmbH. Bitwise GmbH is the company that is managed by Silvan Scherrer and they worked on other open source community projects such as Java 6, QT 4, ODIN and Samba for connectivity with Windows network. Regards, Roderick Klein Mensys B.V -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice.org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice.org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end ]