Mozilla in FC6

Mark Rosenstand mark at borkware.net
Mon Apr 24 08:09:27 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 03:05 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 4/24/06, Joachim Frieben <jfrieben at freesurf.fr> wrote:
> > Replacing "mozilla" is highly overdue, as it still relies on the Gecko 1.7
> > backend which is completely outdated. One negative effect of this is a much
> > lower printing quality. Newer Gecko versions e.g. allow to print Truetype
> > fonts whereas Gecko 1.7 falls back to using plain PS fonts. See also my
> > earlier bug report:
> >
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130697
> >
> > > So, what was the conclusion regarding Mozilla in FC6 (i.e. as a set of
> > > libs for things like Epiphany)? Is it being dropped in favour of FF or
> > > is it staying?
> >
> 
> It would be nice to see a complete move away from mozilla and to
> Seamonkey, Mozilla Suite (which is my preference) has numerous
> rendering issues. And I am just not a fan of Firefox for my majority
> browsing.

There's also xulrunner which is actually designed to solve this problem.




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