bluenose (+3.0)
26/12/06 10:18AM |
Once again Peter delivers on time and with a procuct he said he would.
One issue I have found is that dispite following Peter's instructions Firefox would not load and just came up with error messages. The secert to getting it to load was to copy an existing porofile in !UnixHome /Mozilla into !Boot.Choices as Mozilla and when it loads follow Peter's instaructions there on loading for the first time. Peter does say that you should read the Help file as it has issues starting first time but this step wasn't in it.
I look forward to further integration into RISCOS and this shows the way that non-native apps can and should be used within RISC OS. I look forward to more so I can be parted with cash to support such initiatives.
Thanks Peter and everyone else that has done elements to get Firefox this far. |
bluenose (+1.0)
26/12/06 10:37AM |
Oh Dear , spotted the spelling mistakes..to much Xmas cheer I think still in my system. Posted using Firefox2 Rlse2 |
Nodoid
26/12/06 10:38AM |
Omega hardware? Wazzat then ;-p |
druck
26/12/06 12:00PM |
I was only joking when I taked to Peter on IRC yesterday and asked where my present was, and that he had all day to get a new version out. What a hero!  |
DaveW (+1.0)
26/12/06 12:24PM |
Thanks to Bluenose for the cure!
And massive thanks to Peter for the work - I will be sending a donation.
A very happy Christmas and 2007. |
rmac (+1.0)
26/12/06 1:02PM |
As expected Peter has delivered something that works. Congratulations and well done Peter. I've downloaded, read the instructions, installed it and it worked. Brilliant. Thanks! |
blahsnr
26/12/06 4:23PM |
bluenose
The spelling mistakes were unimportant as far as I am concerned. Your fix however got FF2 rel 2 up and running here (and a few other people as well). Thanks! |
ROHC (+1.0)
26/12/06 7:28PM |
Big improvement! 
Much more stable than the previous versions - just actually managed to complete an ebay transaction!
...watches bank account shudder in anticipation  |
lym (+1.0)
26/12/06 8:54PM |
Yup, works on my A9
Great Christmas present - now it works on my little blue box, I've donated. |
ROHC (+1.0)
26/12/06 9:10PM |
In reply to lym:
but did you use firefox?
was my 1st test this morning |
lym (+1.0)
26/12/06 9:22PM |
In reply to ROHC:
Well, TBH, NetSurf is still quicker, so I used that. Oh, the luxury - to have two RISC OS browsers so competent and lovely... |
hutchies (+1.0)
26/12/06 10:14PM |
All very exciting news, although I'm afraid that, on my version (VRPC-Adjust) at least, it doesn't appear to work. Ah well; Peter did only say 'maybe' to it working with VRPC. Any other VRPC users with different results?
Well done to Peter anyway, great work. Hopefully maybe a future release will incorporate VRPC as well. |
IanK (+1.0)
26/12/06 11:33PM |
It's great to see such an important app making such good progress and running nicely on my Omega.
Well done Peter |
ROHC (+1.0)
26/12/06 11:50PM |
In reply to IanK:
Cool
anyone else with emulator feedback? |
JohnR (+1.0)
27/12/06 2:42PM |
Thanks Peter. Now that Firefox sits on the icon bar and does not disappear when startled I will keep it running all the time alongside of Netsurf. It helps to be using Moredesk of course because I can have a screen for each browser and quickly swap back and forward.
Just one regret. I wish had read Drobe before re-downloading and re-installing Tinct, UnixLib etc in an attempt to get round the start up problem. Thanks for the solution Doug.
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AMS (+3.0)
27/12/06 4:41PM |
Nicely done Peter !
Although the use of a "patch" was an acceptible (and imaginitive) solution to the problem - the best option was a proper port that could be run natively on the A9. Peter's port is just that, this brings all modern RISC OS platforms into line (a good thing IMHO).
As to the problem with running on VRPC-Adjust surely that's not a show stopper as Firefox can run natively under Windows (upon which VRPC has to run anyway). Can't understand why someone would want to run Firefox slowly under emulation when the native (x86) solution is available... |
AW (+1.0)
27/12/06 4:51PM |
Has anybody tested it on a RiscPC?
In any case well done that man. Just returning to the computer after a couple of days, it's such a pleasure to see RISC OS again which makes Peter Naulls' commitment as welcome as ever. |
bluenose (+1.0)
27/12/06 6:25PM |
Well having had a play again today with "Bon Echo" today I am very impressed that it integrates with Bookmaker by Nick Roberts and also you can launch a link from MessengerPro using it's ability to view HTML emails built into version 4.24.
Well done again Peter |
diomus (+2.0)
27/12/06 7:53PM |
In reply to AW:
It won't work on RiscPCs, see the !Help file. It uses instructions that are incompatible with RiscPC-class hardware. |
infotech
4/1/07 7:48PM |
I wonder if Ian (or anyone else please) can help me on my Omega?
The beta 4 version loads, but when I try to run version 2-r2, a task window opens and nothing else. It seems to go into a loop. The stderr file shows only Native App Start
Native App Quit
I have double-clicked the ELF loader and put Firefox in the same hard disc partition (Applicat) as !Boot. I even did the work around as above and tried again, after deleting the contents in !Choices:Mozilla.Firefox
Clearly, I am doing something wrong if Ian has it working.
Thanking you in advance. Happy 2007!
Kind regards,
Ros
I also re-downloaded and checked the contents and counted firefox-bin as 20,140,472 bytes in case I had a corrupted file.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Ros |
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