Unofficial Mozilla for Mac OS 9 (Mac OS Classic)

Notice

• No warranty, of course :-)
• Don't send bug reports to mozilla.org about these builds.
• I am not a programmer. So I can not fix any bug unless you teach me how to fix it.

How to build

I can't build MacOS classic (non-carbon) version according to Building Mac Mozilla (CFM) with CodeWarrior 7.2J on Mac OS 9.2.2. The building fails at _Interface.mcp, and stalls at _NSStdLib.mcp.

It seems that "ContextualMenu" stub library in Universal Interfaces 3.4.1 is strange...

• codewarrior.mac -- Pro 7 problem #1 -- ContextualMenu stub is bad?
• Bug 98349 -- Convert Mac build to CW7 with XML projects
• netscape.public.mozilla.mac -- Re: Rendering Question

So I replaced "ContextualMenu" StubLibrary version 3.4.1 with version 3.3.2. I don't know whether this is an appropriate workaround...

Build option that I added to the default is options psm 1.

Known problem

"Save Page As ... Web Page, complete" sometimes fails and makes garbage files/folders in Mozilla folder

1.2.1 and 1.3a (carbon) official builds also have this problem on OS 9. Try example page, if interested. I can't find this issue in Bugzilla, but it seems that this is because Mac OS 9 and CFM build cannot deal with long file names. Probably related to Bug 142043.

You may sometimes see foo.html cannot be found errors, when you open the file saved by "Web Page, complete".

If this happens, open Mozilla program folder, find strange files/folders made recently, move them to your download folder.

Download

• Each binary is not "Installer". Unpack the archive and run "Mozilla".
• "TalkBack" is not contained.
• Build IDs are "0000000000" since these are not official builds.

Mozilla 1.3.1

mozilla-macos9-1.3.1.sea.bin (14.3MB)
User-Agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030621 Unofficial/1.3.1.

How to build 1.3.1

• I added options cview 0.
• Others are same as 1.3, except checking out with Revision MOZILLA_1_3_1_RELEASE.

Mozilla 1.3

mozilla-macos9-1.3.sea.bin (14.6MB)(14.3MB)
User-Agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030615 Unofficial/1.3.

Updated a bit

• Changed to the new splash screen that Paul Matzke had sent me. See Bug 194291.
• Removed the 3 .xSYM files to save a little of size.

How to build 1.3

• I checked out the following modules with Revision MOZILLA_1_3_RELEASE manually, after checking out as usual. Otherwise the building stalls at libimg2 because of missing nsPPMDecoder.cpp.
  • mozilla/lib/mac/Instrumentation
  • mozilla/modules/libpr0n
• Backed out the patch of Bug 194149 which seems to be only for Mach-O build. Otherwise the build fails at nsCommandLineServiceMac.cpp, and "Mozilla" executable application is not made.
• Backed out the patch of Bug 193295 also. Otherwise first new window starts above (higher) partially hidden by the menubar .

Mozilla 1.3b

mozilla-macos9-1.3b.sea.bin (15.4MB)
User-Agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030601 Unofficial/1.3b".

Mozilla 1.3a

mozilla-macos9-1.3a.sea.bin (15.2MB)
User-Agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030529 Unofficial/1.3a".

Links

• WaMCom
  WaMCom 2003-07-23 release for Mac OS 9 is now available. WaMCom is a distribution of Mozilla 1.3.1 with hundreds of additional bug fixes. I recommend this instead of my builds.
• Wazilla
  wazilla-macos9-1.3f-7.sea.bin (15.8 MB) is available. Wazilla is an another Mozilla distribution applied several patches by Japanese developers. 1.3f means Wazilla 1.3 version f (based on Mozilla 1.3).

To-do or/and ...

• Building WaMCom for Mac OS classic.