![]() I’m not a fan of benchmarks and prefer real life use so I decided to give the Timberwolf a thorough workout by using it to write this blog with WordPress on my AmigaONE X1000. For legal reasons it can’t be called Firefox and has been given the name Timberwolf. The Frieden brothers, under an project, have created a port of Firefox for AmigaOS 4. This has led to the development of Firefox ports on other platforms such as Flock, Miro, Iceweasel, and Songbird etc, which make use of the Firefox code. The Firefo x source code is free software and under the Mozilla Public License anyone is free to view, modify and/or redistribute the source code. Unfortunately, the development of IBrowse (and AWeb) effectively ceased in 2006/7. It was one of the few web browsers on any system that included tabbed browsing and when I discovered that Firefox had a similar feature it did not take me long to make the switch when browsing under Windows. ![]() But it was the MUI based IBrowse that was always my favourite. I used both IBrowse and AWeb on my A4000 and supported both while they were in development. IBrowse was probably the most popular classic Amiga web browser. Although it was buggy and unreliable it had a number of unique features and would eventually lead to development of IBrowse by Stefan Burström which was released in 1996. You are probably wondering was this has all got to do with the Amiga? Back in 1994 I was using AMosaic which was Amiga port of the original Mosaic browser. The other big winner is the Google Chrome browser which has grown to ~33% market share since it’s introduction in 2008. Conversely, Internet Explorer has fallen from it 95% peak in 2002 to around 32% today. Since it’s introduction Firefox has steadily gained market share and now holds ~25% of the world wide browser market. More importantly, the Mozilla foundation also led to the development of an open source web browser which started life as Phoenix in 2002 and is now better know as Firefox. ![]() The ensuing browser wars eventually led to the decline of Netscape Navigator when Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.This was not the end of Netscape and it re-emerged under the Mozilla foundation and continued to be developed until 2008. ![]() Even the first versions of Internet Explorer were heavily influenced by Mosaic. AMosaic Amiga Web browserĪndreessen would go on to commercialise Mosaic as Netscape Navigator which became the dominant web browser during the early days of the Internet boom. However, it was not until Marc Andreessen released Mosaic in 1993 that the Internet started to become more accessible to the wider population. However, the honour of the first graphical web browser goes to Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Internet, who created the WorldWideWeb browser in 1990 which was later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion with the Internet itself. I’ve always been a big fan of Firefox since I began using it around 2004 in preference to Mircosoft’s Internet Explorer for web browsing on Windows PCs. However, with the release of Timberwolf RC1 I decided to write my blog using Timberwolf under AmigaOS4 for the very first time. I normally write my blog on my AmigaONE X1000 using Firefox running under Ubuntu or MintPPC. A wolf in Sheep’s clothing? Mosaic Web browser
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