Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:48:22 -0400 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: bww bitwise works GmbH progress update ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: silvan.scherrerDESPAM at DESPAMaroa.ch *bww bitwise works GmbH progress update July 24, 2015* In the last couple of week we have been working on the tasks below. * Firefox * SWT/Eclipse * VirtualBox * Firefox* The fifth beta for Firefox is online now. Please see Firefox 31 ESR https://github dot com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2/releases/tag/FIREFOX_31_8_0esr_RELEASE_OS2_Beta_5> for the complete announcement and download information. This is a big step forward because the official Mozilla team dropped OS/2 support from the main development line between versions 24 and 31 and in this release we carefully restored it back including all previously existed OS/2 features. We also ported new Firefox code to OS/2 and fixed some old bugs. This includes reviewed JavaScript support where we finally fixed infamous crashes of Firefox on websites with heavy JavaScript usage and generally improved JavaScript performance. One of our goals for Firefox 31 was to enable sound support again. For this we hired Myung-Hun KO to add his libkai to Firefox. Unfortunately some sound support is still not working, as we could not enable FFMPEG support completely. The reason for this is that Firefox itself doesn't support FFMPEG library completely in version 31. In version 38, which is now in ESR state as well, this support is complete. Because of that we decided to leave Firefox 31 ESR after this beta and move on to Firefox 38 ESR. This will bring us at such a current browser level we haven't been able to have for a long time. If you are interested to see the progress on Firefox, then please have a look at Firefox for eCS (OS/2) https://github dot com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2> * SWT/Eclipse* If you are interested to see the progress on SWT/Eclipse, then please have a look at Eclipse (SWT) for eCS (OS/2) https://github dot com/bitwiseworks/eclipse.platform.swt>. * VirtualBox* We are forming a new team to port the latest VirtualBox Host to eCS (OS/2). Right now we are in the negotiation phase with developers. The SVN/wiki and trac are already partially done. We reused the existing one from http://netlabs dot org. If you are interested to see the progress of this port, then please have a look at VirtualBox for eCS (OS/2). http://trac dot netlabs dot org/vbox> *Sponsoring * If you want to support us or a specific project then please check out our online shop http://www.bitwiseworks dot com/shop>. You are one of the people making the future possible! With regards, the bww bitwise works GmbH Team http://www.bitwiseworks dot com -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot 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 dot org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice dot org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice dot org unsubscribe news end ]