On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:43 +0200, Damir Perisa wrote: > Monday 22 October 2007, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > | I don't have my build anymore from 2005. They removed the Qt stuff > | in firefox3 trunk. I know for a fact that it used to be there in > | the offical firefox source in either 1.0 or 1.5 or 2.0. You might > | want to ask Michael Hendy from moznet when exactly they removed > | the Qt3 code. Maybe he also still has a Qt3 build somewhere. But > | it definitely was there since I did get a build in Feb 2005 by > | using > | --enable-default-toolkit=qt but it didn't run so well. > > ah ok, so it was part of the project but got out because of dev > decision... too bad, but they for sure have their reasons. maybe they > want to reconsider now with qt4 being available. > > | The current problem with firefox is that Gtk2 is just an > | abstraction. The ui is designed in xul and java script. Firefox > | would run a lot quicker if it were a native Gtk2 application. > > how true! i do not use firefox where konqueror works... simply because > of speed. some miliseconds to open a konqueror window compared to > seconds for firefox :) ... of course the themes are nice, but after > playing a little, i want not to be held back by gadgets :) ... thats > over all also the reason why i use arch. > > - D > Yeah, Konqueror is good. I have tried the webkit backend in epiphany. But it didn't work so well. Once this is mature enough, I bet a lot of gnome users will drop firefox.
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