As package maintainer for Archlinux, I would like to switch from Firefox to XULRunner as backend. This has several reasons:
- Firefox has too many API changes - A browser will never make it as main browser if it needs another one installed - Firefox is not meant to be used as normal embedding component according to the mozilla developers. Since XULRunner 1.8.0.1 was released yesterday, I wanted to make a package and see what epiphany does with it. The patches I need to apply seem to be a little bit outdated in the wiki, so I would have to find out which bug is fixed and which is not (the same as with firefox 1.5.0.1). Since the codebase is shared, I guess I can get away with the same patches I applied to firefox 1.5.0.1. My biggest concern, before even starting this operation: what is the downside of switching to XULRunner for epiphany 1.8.x, and what would be the downside of switching for epiphany 1.9.x/1.10.x? _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
