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Mac Forum / Applications / Firefox / Mozilla / October 2003Mozilla for OS 9
Hello, Where can I get the lastest version of Mozilla for Mac OS 9? Will I need to compile? Thanks for any help. Sorry for the bad english. :-) I'm from Brazil.  SignatureAdilson Viana Soares Jr. adilson@macbr.com http://www.macbr.com Belém-PA-Brazil > Where can I get the lastest version of Mozilla for Mac OS 9? You can get official Mozilla 1.2.x for Mac OS 9 from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla This was the last official Mozilla release for the Classic Mac OS, and there will never be any newer versions for OS 9. There is an unofficial release based on 1.3.1 available, though. To get this release, go to http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~harunaga/mozilla-macos9/ The other choice is to get Wamcom, a slightly modified Mozilla 1.3: http://wamcom.org/20030624/ > Will I need to compile? No, you don't need to. But you can, if you wish. Signaturemarcoos -> http://www.marcoos.org/ Thanks very much for your answer. But why there's a version of the lastest build of mozilla for other operating systems like AIX, Irix, OS/2...? Wow, who uses OS/2???????? There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-) Thanks again. SignatureAdilson Viana Soares Jr. adilson@macbr.com http://www.macbr.com Belém-PA-Brasil Em 01.10.2003 05:47 PM, "user@domain.invalid.netscape.com" >> Where can I get the lastest version of Mozilla for Mac OS 9? > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > No, you don't need to. But you can, if you wish. > But why there's a version of the lastest build of mozilla for other > operating systems like AIX, Irix, OS/2...? AIX and OS/2 are systems developed by IBM and IBM employs some Mozilla developers. AIX and Irix are Unix systems (OS 9 is not), just like Linux and Solaris. The code doesn't need so many changes as it would if Mozilla was still developed for Classic Mac OS. > Wow, who uses OS/2???????? I know some people who do. ;) > There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-) AIX and Irix are very important in corporate environments. And, as I said, IBM cares about Mozilla more than Apple, so they even port it to the maybe-obsolete OS/2... If you want to run 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 or *bird on a Mac, you have to upgrade to Mac OS X or Linux/PPC (such as YellowDog or Mandrake). The latter is better if you use some older New-World-Macs that are to slow to run OS X. The unofficial 1.3 is still the best browser for OS 9 (when compared to really old IE 5.1x and Opera 6). Signaturemarcoos -> http://www.marcoos.org/ Em 02.10.2003 07:48 PM, "user@domain.invalid.netscape.com" >> But why there's a version of the lastest build of mozilla for other >> operating systems like AIX, Irix, OS/2...? > > AIX and OS/2 are systems developed by IBM and IBM employs some > Mozilla developers. That's it...:-) > AIX and Irix are Unix systems (OS 9 is not), just like Linux and > Solaris. The code doesn't need so many changes as it would if > Mozilla was still developed for Classic Mac OS. OK, I understand. >> Wow, who uses OS/2???????? > > I know some people who do. ;) I know one, and only one, guy who tries. :-) >> There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-) > > AIX and Irix are very important in corporate environments. > And, as I said, IBM cares about Mozilla more than Apple, so > they even port it to the maybe-obsolete OS/2... Apple has now Safari. It's a good browser, but just run in OS X, like Mozilla. :-( I think Mozilla is a good and the best choice for who still uses OS 9. If it had the last version, of course. > If you want to run 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 or *bird on a Mac, you have to > upgrade to Mac OS X or Linux/PPC (such as YellowDog or Mandrake). I use OS X in my house, in an old iMac 333. But I have and work with a very old powerbook G3 233 without cache and passive matrix screen. :-P Jaguar is very very slow in my PB. In Brazil, mac's are very expensive. We can't buy a mac every year. > The latter is better if you use some older New-World-Macs that > are to slow to run OS X. > > The unofficial 1.3 is still the best browser for OS 9 > (when compared to really old IE 5.1x and Opera 6). Where's the mac community that still uses the MacOS9? Why they do not make a good version for the classic? This is my question. Do you understand? Sorry for the bad english (I speak portuguese) and thanks for your answer. SignatureAdilson Viana Soares Jr. adilson@iesam.com.br http://www.macbr.com Belém-PA-Brasil > Thanks very much for your answer. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-) This is true. Heck, there's more people using "old" Mac OS than people using OS X -- or Linux for that matter. However, the rationale here is that OS 9 and earlier are "dead." There are a lot of people speaking Latin these days (mostly devout Catholics and bored schoolchildren) but that doesn't mean Latin is staging a comeback. Inasmuch as no further dev work is being done on OS 9, the decision was taken (correctly, in my view) to cease expending the time and $$ needed to continue development. By the time Longhorn actually comes out, Mac OS X will have around 50% share of the Mac base, and that will go up slowly as the years roll on. Mac OS X is the future of Mac development, so it makes sense to focus on that. SignatureCheers, _Chas_ http://www.apple.com/switch non-spammers can write to chasm at mac (dot com) >>Thanks very much for your answer. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >>There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-) the problem is that to support codeWarrier every mozilla developer that made any changes to the tree structure ( add/move/remove files or options) had to either have a Mac with CW7 on it or find some Mac developer that did so that the CW7 build control files could be updated this was a constant problem and only got worse once most of the Mac developers started moving to MacOSX and gcc to build early on in teh mozilla development process Mac/Windowsand Unix each had seperate build files (Makefiles on win32 and *ix and CW7 project fiels on Mac) even before OSX appeared the build follks had mad the win32 programmers switch to share common Makefiles with *ix. once that happened only MacCW7 had an unique build system, but it was all that CW7 supported, when OSX appeared with it's *ix based compilers and buld tools the Mac joined all the other OSs and used the common makefiles some time later support for CW7 was dropped and a couple of months after that all the CW7 control files were removed from the tree ( they were so outdated that they couldn't build the tree anyway dave |
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