Dan Nicholson wrote:
If anyone would like to try --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 (which is the default) vs. --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2, I'd be interested to hear a comparison. Unfortunately, I don't have the hardware to throw down consecutive builds for FF. Whereas Randy said the build takes ~20-30 minutes, on my machine it is ~3.5 hrs.
With the firefox-1.5 source the build fails for me if I --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2. But with the current mozilla cvs trunk the build works fine. The two things I noticed (in about five minutes of testing) were that for some reason the throbber doesn't spin while the page is loading but it renders the page quicker. Particularly if the page has a background image behind the text. The cairo-gtk2 build scrolls up and down quicker. A normal gtk2 build with the same code scrolls up and down noticeably slower if there is a background image. But as I say, the firefox-1.5 code doesn't seem to build with --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 so it's one to watch for the future but not relevant to this discussion about firefox-1.5
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