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Any updates on the Falcon QT browser?

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Dave Yeo:
The latest to do from Dimitriy, https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qtwebengine-chromium-os2/issues/3

--- Quote ---With LIBC and GCC fixed, the string functions build fine now. Next stops besides pthread TLS are these (all expected):

    LaunchProcess (launch_posix.cc), need to use spawn2 instead of fork there.
    UnixDomainSocket (unix_domain_socket.cc, sync_socket_posix.cc, some alignments to features missing on OS/2).
    URandomFD (rand_util_posix.cc)
    Condition and lock variables (condition_variable_posix.cc, lock_impl_posix.cc, might be related to pthread as well).
    Metrics code (histogram.cc, process_metrics.cc)

--- End quote ---

Hakuchi:

--- Quote from: Eugene Tucker on March 05, 2020, 06:48:08 pm ---Otter looks promising but the development even in Windows and Linux is very slow. FalKon is more stable.

--- End quote ---

Some how Haiku-OS guys have managed to make it work on Haiku-OS ...

Neil Waldhauer:

--- Quote from: Hakuchi on March 05, 2020, 08:37:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Eugene Tucker on March 05, 2020, 06:48:08 pm ---Otter looks promising but the development even in Windows and Linux is very slow. FalKon is more stable.

--- End quote ---

Some how Haiku-OS guys have managed to make it work on Haiku-OS ...

--- End quote ---

Go ahead and post your Otter for OS/2 port. We need a new browser.

Roderick Klein:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on March 06, 2020, 03:27:38 am ---
--- Quote from: Hakuchi on March 05, 2020, 08:37:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Eugene Tucker on March 05, 2020, 06:48:08 pm ---Otter looks promising but the development even in Windows and Linux is very slow. FalKon is more stable.

--- End quote ---

Some how Haiku-OS guys have managed to make it work on Haiku-OS ...

--- End quote ---

Go ahead and post your Otter for OS/2 port. We need a new browser.

--- End quote ---

?? Currently the Otter browser can also not be compiled as the webkit.dll is being finished by Dmitry  for OS/2/ArcaOS.
I think I asked Dmitry already months ago if the Otter browser could be compiled on OS/2.  I do not remember his answer.
I asked him to respond in this thread.

The bottom line is that 80 to 90% of the browser functionality is in the QT and Webkit.dll. The rest if browser depended.
I think the discussion which browser should be ported by BWW is now a passed station. It has been known for months which browser was targetted.
If good *technical* arguments could be given why the Otter browser should be selected.

I think as it stands now for the community a new browser is better then nothing. I have already been stating this for years the Mozilla Sea Monkey and Firefox browser would die on OS/2.
And that is happening now.  I personally need to boot in Windows more and more often because a website no longer works in Firefox 45.9 or the website page is not displayed correctly.

Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE

Hakuchi:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on March 06, 2020, 03:27:38 am ---
Go ahead and post your Otter for OS/2 port. We need a new browser.

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Nah. I develop only forum posts that gets snarky replies ...

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