Timberwolf (web browser)

Timberwolf web browser

Timberwolf Alpha 1 (Firefox 3.5 update 4)
Developer(s)	Thomas Frieden and Hans-Joerg Frieden
Initial release	June 9, 2010
Stable release	Beta (of Firefox 4.0.1) / February 16, 2012 (2012-02-16)
Development status	Active
Written in	C, XUL
Operating system	AmigaOS 4
Available in	Per implementation
Type	Web browser
Website	FriedenHQ Site

Timberwolf web browser is the name of an ongoing project created to port the Firefox 3.5 browser to the AmigaOS 4 platform. The first Alpha 1 version was made available for download on June 9, 2010.^[1][2] It is called Timberwolf because it's not an official version of Firefox and not part of the main Firefox development repository, and because the name "Mozilla Firefox" is a registered trademark; along with the official Firefox logo.

History

TimberWolf is a bounty funded project to port Mozilla Firefox to AmigaOS 4. ^[3] It was started in early 2009 as parallel to AmiZilla project that has the same intent. Amizilla had a more complex history, as it was started in 2003 from US firm DiscreetFX with the target of porting any running version of Mozilla engine based Firefox compatible browser to Amiga platforms. As long as Amizilla project was too ambitious the project was closed on November 19, 2009 without producing significative results. Timberwolf project is full managed by Thomas Frieden and Hans-Joerg Frieden (AmigaOS 4 core developers), who work at it as a spare time project. The first release has been made public in June 2010.

Features

This section requires expansion.

Amiga version of Timberwolf/Shiretoko/Firefox is based on XUL user-interface toolkit. The developers had to port a wrapper to XUL into Amiga, which was called XULRunner, in order to being capable of then porting the whole Firefox to this platform.

See also

• AmiZilla
• NetSurf
• Origyn Web Browser

References

1. ^ "Firefox on Amiga: Timberwolf Goes Alpha". OSNews. 2010-06-09. http://www.osnews.com/story/23431/Firefox_on_Amiga_Timberwolf_Goes_Alpha. Retrieved 2010-08-14. 
2. ^ "Announce of Timberwolf Alpha 1 Release". Thomas Frieden and Hans-Joerg Frieden. http://www.friedenhq.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49:timberwolf&catid=35:amigaos. Retrieved june 9, 2010. 
3. ^ "Project: Timberwolf". AmigaBounty. http://www.amigabounty.net/index.php?function=viewfiles&projectid=44. Retrieved 2010-08-14. 

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