Peter Weilbacher has released an OS/2 version of Firefox 3.0.




"Firefox 3 is the most major Mozilla browser release since the launch of Firefox 2 in October 2006 and represents the culmination of over three years work (development on Firefox 3 began before even Firefox 1.5 came out). According to the press release announcing Firefox 3, the new version has over 15,000 improvements."

Not sure if OS/2 downloads count toward it but "With the launch of Firefox 3, Mozilla is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in twenty-four hours. The number of downloads so far can be tracked at http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com. Only full, completed downloads count and users have until 11:16am Pacific Daylight Time on Wednesday (6:16pm UTC/GMT) to make a participating download."

Release notes: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/releasenotes/

OS/2 readme: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/contrib/firefox-3.0.en-US.os2.ReadMe

Download Firefox 3.0 : http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/contrib/firefox-3.0.en-US.os2.zip

Requires: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

See included readme.txt for minimum hardware/software requirements.

For additional WPS integration: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/wps/rws08dll.zip

Following information courtesy of Sander Nyman :

NOTE:  To have both Firefox, & Thunderbird in use at the same time (or ANY other Mozilla app) they *MUST* be at the SAME version level, or a mismatched DLL will still be in memory when you attempt to start a second Mozilla based program.  The easiest way to get around this limitation, and use DIFFERENT version levels of Firefox, Thunderbird, Kompozer, etc., is with Rich Walsh's Run! utility.  It is tiny, and VERY easy to set up.  To make life even easier, I HIGHLY recommend that you download & use the Internet Application Integration utility from Chuck McKinnis, which actually contains the Run! utility, and sets it up for you, along with coordinating your web browser with your email client for "mailto" links, etc.  You can find it here:

http://7cities.net/~mckinnis/code/iai1050.exe

Or, if you'd rather do it yourself, here is the Run! utility:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=run_070.zip

Firefox extensions (add-ons) that add new functionality are available here:

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox

Firefox themes (skins) are available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/?application=firefox

The official Warpzilla homepage can be found here:

http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/

If you have questions, or just want the latest, greatest tips for Firefox, Thunderbird, & Seamonkey, Steve Wendt's excellent "Tips For Warpzilla" page can be found here:

http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html

For Firefox "Tips & Tricks", see:

http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_6.html

And finally, if you still have questions, or just want to participate in a Mozilla for OS/2 discussion forum, the Warpzilla newsgroup can be found here:

news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2

From the README.txt:

"Known Problems of the OS/2 version
----------------------------------

Cross-platform problems are usually listed in the release notes of each
milestone release.

- Printing to normal OS/2 printer queues had to be disabled. It was slow even
  for simple pages and used huge amounts of RAM, so that in most cases the application crashed, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415522.
  While the queues are still displayed in the printing dialog, any printing operation will instead create a PDF file. By default this file is placed on  the Desktop, with the name Firefox_<date>_<time>.pdf, where <date> and <time> are replaced by the current system time. If you want to use another name, select "Print to file" before pressing the Print button.  The resulting PDF file can be printed using applications like Lucide, Acrobat  Reader, or GSview.

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

- Firefox 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."

Source: OS2VOICE.org

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