Firefox on Mac OS9

[snowflake]

I understand that firefox for os-x has its roots as a carbonised mac os application.

This is probably a scary question but I was wondering how possible it might be to port firefox to OS-9.

I imagine I would have to go way back up the tree?

I assume there is no gcc for os9 and that I would need to get hold of a copy of codewarrior from somewhere too?

There must be lots of firefox that is not even mac specific as it is a cross platform browser but I wonder to what extent the mac specific parts are heavily OSX specific and to what extent they might affect the core gecko stuff.

I'm just kind of curious at the moment but would love to hear any info anyone can offer.

[Mook]

According to mozilla.org, the last OS9 build was Mozilla 1.2.1 (i.e. much earlier than Firefox or even Phoenix). Good luck

(IIRC, they did need codewarrior... )

That's all I can offer, since I don't actually have a Mac

[Underwood 5]

This is probably a scary question but I was wondering how possible it might be to port firefox to OS-9.

I run a version on OS 9 of the Mozilla suite 1.2 that was updated with 1.4 code, apparently, to "modernize" it and fix some security holes, so you may be reinventing the wheel. This version, numbered 1.3, was created a few years ago by WaMCom at
http://wamcom.org/20030624/macos9/

After fiddling with about:config
http://www.mrtech.com/news/messages/3447.html
(the extension Tweak Network won't load) and finding older versions of extensions like Adblock (the newest SmoothWheel still works), the thing is more like Firefox than Firefox. It blows the doors off Safari on OS X. Buttons directly accessible from the screen, thanks to the Prefbar extension at
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/installation.html
closely approximates Firefox's clear-private-data function. (Pref Buttons replaces the Prefbar in Firefox) and you can turn cookies on and off and kill them from the screen.

If you want to fiddle with the WaMCom version and add extensions, don't download any before first going to
http://mozmonkey.com/?r=extuninstall
and installing Extension Manager 2.0 AND Extension Uninstaller API 2.0.

Load the Extension Unistaller first, then the Extension Manager, or neither will load.

The browser is so old it doesn't have an extension manager, so it needs these first. The extension manager, though, won't appear without the Extension Unistaller being there, too, so you need both. Once both are loaded, the manager appears under Tools, and works like you'd expect it to.

Don't gang-load the extension installs, even the extension manager and extension uninstaller. Quit the broswer and restart it after loading each.

Nothing seems to slow this thing down. It even works on my bank's site. All the plugins work: JavaScript, QuickTime, RealPlayer, MediaPlayer, etc., so any problem there is due to the age of the plugins' apps, not the browser.