Progress on porting Firefox

The main idea should be to attract a bit of the mainstream, and make it usable daily by a “common” user.

Because Haiku will never be a reference in servers like Linux, nor the master of the desktop like Windows, or be highly integrated into an ecosystem like MacOS. Therefore we should do everything possible to attract computer hobbyists, who want to try something different, but want to continue doing the same tasks as the vast majority, which would be watching YouTube, Netflix, chatting, reading PDF, editing a document or an excel spreadsheet, sending emails and little else.

Sorry if we use the PC more like a smartphone on steroids, than like a Personal Computer that performs millions of mathematical calculations in thousandths of a second

I like Haiku for what it represents, it represents a small community that only for the love of art, for the love of programming, for something different, to learn more, to offer more, develops and keeps Haiku alive, achieving things as interesting as this Firefox port, like porting Haiku to RISC-V, a platform that didn’t even exist when BeOS was launched, porting Wayland, porting the Qt libraries, even running .NET and C#, it’s because of all those projects that I’m fascinated by Haiku, and all those projects are done for the love of art, and to add one more feature that might attract someone.

I myself made a moonlight-embedded recipe to be able to stream games from a PC to Haiku, and be able to play from Haiku, I also managed to run RE3 (fully reversed source code for GTA III) in a pitiful way. And I did it for the love of art, and because I hope it inspires at least one person to try Haiku, and that will be a win

So I thank everyone who works on bringing new things to Haiku, and I hope that this community continues to want to do things that have never been done, for the love of art.

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