Feb 2013 12:17:40 -0500   
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   From: rwkleinDESPAM@DESPAMmensys.nl   
      
   Hello everybody,     
      
   I'm sending out this email on behalf of the Mensys and Bitwise GmbH.   For the   
   people who follow the Mozilla OS/2 newsgroup its quite obvious it's taking   
   more and more effort to compile current versions of the Firefox web browser   
   from the Mozilla foundation.     
      
   Also there are some stability issue's. Bitwise GmbH is working on Firefox so   
   we as commuity can easly compile it again for OS/2 and eComStation.     
      
   What will be done are the following issue's:     
      
   * Clean up the build enviroment. with which Firefox is compiled.    
   * Currently the Mozilla foundation is thinking of removing the OS/2   
   support from the source code repository. The reason for this is because we   
   have patches in the OS/2 enviroment   
   we need to rewrite. These patches also make it difficult to compile a stable   
   web browser.    
   * What will also be implemented is IPC support. This will mean that if   
   one browser tab in Firefox crashes it will not make your web browser   
   crash.     
      
   The total goal is to get the current Firefox version compiling again on   
   OS/2/eComStation.     
      
   The amount of money we need is 8000 Euro for 3 months of full work on   
   Firefox.     
      
   You can buy sponsorunits via the Mensys shop:   
   http://www.mensys.com/shop/NetlabsJava6   
      
   While the webpage mentions only Java 6. All money will be used for the   
   Firefox deveopment.   
   100% of your donation will be send to Bitwise GmbH.     
      
   Bitwise GmbH is the company that is managed by Silvan Scherrer and they worked   
   on other open source community projects such as Java 6, QT 4, ODIN and Samba   
   for connectivity with Windows network.     
      
   Regards,     
      
   Roderick Klein   
   Mensys B.V   
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