Dennis: >> forgot to mention - most add-ons (we call them add-ons to use the same >> term as Firefox/Mozilla) are cross-platform and should just work. the >> ones involving core media playback like Quicktime/WMP, or using external >> libraries (iPod sync, dependent upon libgpod) may have platform >> dependencies, but otherwise most things are just using javascript/XUL. > > Do any of these things benefit from or use mediaLib at all ? > > re: http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/mlibfaq.html
I doubt it, but I would think there would be opportunities to make the code run faster by using mediaLib. It might be worthwhile to profile the various add-ons to find out which functions are the most time consuming. Then we could review these to see if mediaLib might be a good fit. Brian
