Oscar Lesta recently wrote in to let us know about an interesting – if disheartening – discussion that took place this summer on the BeZilla LiveJournal site. To quote BeZilla developer “tigerdog”:

The 2.0 chain is the end of the road for Firefox development for BeOS. The continuing addition of dependencies (there are LOTS now) continually increases the level of effort necessary to keep Firefox building. Combine this with the fact that more and more devs are focused on getting Haiku running and released and it leaves us too many demands and not enough resources.

If I had a say, we’d still fix a few niggling problems (like windows not repainting until resized) and in a perfect world, we’d unravel the SSL-induced hang and establish some limited printing support. Throw those changes into the 2.0 branch and move on to a webkit-based browser for Haiku.

He also recommends keeping a close eye on Ryan Leavengood’s efforts to port WebKit to Haiku. While it is unfortunate to read that the BeZilla project is apparently approaching some potentially-insurmountable obstacles, the BeZilla devs still deserve plenty of praise for all the progress they’ve made so far – and it’s great to see that they’re still dedicated to improving the BeOS releases based on the current codebase (as the recent Firefox update shows).

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