[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 20-02-2011 04:15, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
> In article<ed14e8a8-e2d1-49ff-88b1-b884218c76d7 at l22g2000pre.googlegroups.com>, Wendell<wendellxe at yahoo.com>  writes:
>> On Feb 18, 4:39=A0pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>> undress to reply) wrote:
>>>   I want to
>>> get a somewhat more modern web browser to run on VMS on ALPHA.
>>
>> I was wondering why the HP Firefox Web Browser V2.0-18 isn't available
>> for Alpha. Is there a lot more than a recompile involved?
>>
>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/firefox/index.html
>
> HP isn't interested in having browsers on VMS.
> Firefox was a one time port for a large customer.
> It isn't kept current (even on Itanic) - unless someone pays again.

Why should they.

I don't think they will sell more I64 boxes if they had FF
available.

And it would not be cheap to keep keep updating the code
(yes - JavaScript engines today are pretty complex),
build, test and release at the regular FF intervals.

Arne