Hi!
I am very impressed with Haiku. I have installed it to my Acer Aspire One, from which I am typing this now.
Haiku plays mp3 and DivX, which surprised me a lot.
Having tried ReactOS, AROS and Syllable, Haiku is in my opinion the closest Non-Linux project to being usable.
A few questions:
I installed the latest build because it supports Atheros WiFi.
Unfortunately, it did not come with a browser. So i downloaded one.
It is FireFox 2.0.0.18.
Isn’t there a newer version available? It hates when I open many tabs, and punishes me by being slow.
Haiku chose to connect to my neighbor’s wlan instead of mine, which is better.
How do I make it connect to my own network? (both are un-encrypted)
How can I make the browser play YouTube-videos? There was a Macromedia Flash pkg-file which I installed, but I think it’s too old to play modern animations.
Is all the software for Haiku this old?
Which browser is the latest and most bug-free?
This is a really nice OS, and I will keep using it, I think.
But an OS without YouTube-support is not a Windows-killer.
So any help to make my Haiku-laptop better is very appreciated.
wget for installing the latest BeZilla, seemed to work, but when it was done, and I tried to start the binary, it complainet that libdc++.so is missing.
Why is it missing? BeZilla refuses to start
I continued, hoping that the FireFox version I installed yesterday would be able to work on YouTube.
There was change, but it did not work.
Before I tried to install Gnash, trying to access YouTube would result in a message telling me to install Flash.
After my efforts, it now displays a black box where the video should be. In the box is an error message, like this “error - have you installed Gnash’s dependencies?”
YES I DID!!!
So, why does it not work? The guide said to retry. I did that too.
What is wrong_ Is Gnash not supposed to work in Firefox, but only in BeZilla?
In that case I should be fine if you can help me fix the libdc++.so error.
I like tweaking with computers, but maybe I should just wait for the next release, instead of using a nightly… When will it be? I know that you cannot give a precise answer, but do you have any idea?
Is the latest Bezilla based on the latest FireFox, or is it actually a really old FireFox recompiled for Haiku?
Or is an official BeOs-edition made by Mozilla from when the system still existed?
FireFox runs quite slow on my laptop. It was a lot faster when the laptop had Ubuntu.
Did I do something wrong, or is the system less efficient on my hardware?
What is the difference between all the files named BeZillaBrowser? There is eight of them! Which one is for me?
And what does this mean:
Run either gcc2hybrid or gcc4hybrid system.
gcc is a compiler, how compile application and co (OS), a compiler make a Binar code to ready to run a software.
BeOS used gcc2 all times and gcc4 is a new genaration of the compiler, betterm faster binar code, most software from opensource used this too eg: WebKit, Java runtime, QT Framework etc.
gcc4 make Haiku live easyer
But sometimes need you a old BeOS app so its is good to have gcc2 and gcc4 (Hybrid to compiler and here libs), when you used gcc2hybrid, is haiku compiled with gcc2 and you can run gcc4 compiled app, haiku switch it and when you used gcc4 then is haiku compiled with gcc4 and you can run gcc2 app , HYBRID
BezillaBrowser is based off Firefox 2.0.x
Creating port off Firefox 3.x would be too much work to do and will not happen.
Nothing official from Mozilla. BezillaBrowser is as official Firefox as you will get for Haiku.
BezillaBrowser is a quick port to get Firefox working on Haiku. They took the Linux version and made changes so that it would work on Haiku too but optimized for Linux instead. Reason why it is slow and resource hungry on Haiku.
Haiku is available as:
gcc2 2) gcc2hybrid 3) gcc4 4) gcc4hybrid
hybrids include both sets of libraries - gcc2 & gcc4
ie: Alpha 1 is gcc2hybrid; meaning OS was compiled with gcc2 and includes gcc4 libraries too
The hybrids allow to run both BeOS (gcc2) software and newer gcc4 software. Either one should work. Non-hybrids will run BeOS or gcc4 software but not both.
For BezillaBrowser, get the latest version available by date. If you use gcc2hybrid nightly then get gcc2 version to match. gcc4hybrid, get gcc4 one.
How is it easier to make a new native browser from scratch, than “simply” porting the latest FireFox?
I thought that with a opensource program, all you need is the right compiler, then the software will fit on any system?
How do I choose which wlan to connect to?
My laptop has preferred my neighbour’s network, which is really slow.
Why can it read USB-sticks, but not my 500GB external hard drive? Is it bechause the hard drive is NTFS?
[quote=tonestone57]BezillaBrowser is based off Firefox 2.0.x
Creating port off Firefox 3.x would be too much work to do and will not happen.
Nothing official from Mozilla. BezillaBrowser is as official Firefox as you will get for Haiku.
BezillaBrowser is a quick port to get Firefox working on Haiku. They took the Linux version and made changes so that it would work on Haiku too but optimized for Linux instead. Reason why it is slow and resource hungry on Haiku.
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This is not true at all. Please don’t spread misinformation.
BezillaBrowser was a real port of Firefox (more based on the Windows code than the UNIX code, the UNIX code is pretty bad). It has been around since the beginning of Firefox, back even when it was known as Phoenix. We stopped developing Firefox when they forced all platforms to use Cairo for drawing in Jan 2007. At the time we ended development it was on par in speed with other platforms. Now it cannot compete with recent versions and with the heavier webpages of today.
