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1 edit | It should be easy ... shouldn't it?
Firefox is written to be portable. All they should need to do is get an updated compiler, set some flags, and recompile it for the new target environment. The complexity of the app is irrelevant since it is already portable.
The tougher things to port are non-portable programs with a lot of performance-tuned assembly code mixed in, or code that has never been cross platform before that does a lot of number manipulation at the bit level (endian issues). With computers as fast as they are these days and the pushes towards platform independence, you don't see assembly code very often anyway.
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