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TeLLie

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2026, 11:54:03 am »
Hi

Ko ported meson..

Kind regards Tellie

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2026, 12:12:46 pm »
Thanks for the info, but it's just one example. And, don't get me started on IDEs ;-)

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2026, 03:59:13 pm »
Thanks for the info, but it's just one example. And, don't get me started on IDEs ;-)
Here maybe Dmitriys approach (SSH file sharing to OS/2 box if I understand it correct) may help. Or running OS/2 virtually in f.i. Linux. But until now I hate doing such. Of course you don't need a browser for OS/2 anymore when running within VBOX....

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2026, 04:56:34 pm »
For compiling large projects like Qt, having a stand alone box would help as you can have the minimal other stuff running to save memory. Likewise with a VBox instance, though I find that with VBox, multiple CPU's doesn't work too well. Running multiple jobs when building can really speed things up if you don't run out of memory. Some of this C++ code uses a lot of memory. I've seen compiling one file take a couple of GB's of memory and even hit my swap file with 3.4 GB's of visible memory when running multiple jobs.
Cross compiling from Linux would be best and in theory quite possible. Linux is way faster at compiling projects then OS/2. OTOH, OS/2 is quite a bit faster then Windows compiling this stuff where there is lots of forking of processes.

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2026, 08:44:11 am »
Alternative to MyPal:
http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/

I use IceApe from there on XP. Less memory used than MyPal

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2026, 04:29:30 pm »
Hello

It is the first time I hear about IceApe. It is mentioned that IceApe is based in SeaMonkey.

Win32 - Version 1.8 : https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild

I see references to Iceape 2.7  - https://user-agents.net/browsers/iceape/versions/2-7
But I can not found the source code.

I would need something with more knowledge on this area to know if IceApe is compilable under/for ArcaOS.

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2026, 04:41:22 pm »
It should compile on OS/2, it uses UXP, the Gecko fork that PaleMoon uses. PaleMoon itself should compile on OS/2 but it would take a lot of porting. We do have the widgets etc from Gecko (Firefox) but it would be quite a bit of work from someone knowledgeable. And that's the problem, an interested programmer with a lot of time.

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2026, 02:37:20 am »
Iceape= Seamonkey, Icedove= Email, Iceweasel= browser. Originally rebranded Mozilla by Debian Linux

 Source code:
https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/hyperbola/sources/other/

Windows version has updated security and javascript.  Should be able to compile for OS/2

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2026, 07:42:13 pm »
32 bit?

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Re: Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2026, 12:34:05 am »
It should compile to 32 bit, above the poster says he is using it on XP, which is generally 32 bit.
Problem is that it would need a lot of porting. As I mentioned, we have some of the needed stuff such as the widgets but there are classes that need porting and who knows what else. I don't have the skills to compile iceweasel, if someone else did, I could probably compile iceape and icedove. Just like with our Mozilla where once Firefox was done, I could do SM and TB, though they still have a few bugs such as oauth2 being broke.