XULRunner in rawhide

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Nov 14 23:41:58 UTC 2007


Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Martin Stransky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there's a new package in rawhide, xulrunner
>> (xulrunner-1.9-0.alpha9.3.fc9). This package is supposed to provide
>> gecko-libs instead of Firefox and the plan is to ship Firefox as a pure
>> XUL application and run in by xulrunner.
> 
> Is this really going to work? The Mozilla guys made it clear that they 
> don't want to make Firefox depend on xulrunner as that would limit their 
> ability to push the envelope with firefox. If Fedora wants to make that 
> move wouldn't that eventually require a fork?
> 
> http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2007-05-15/xulrunner-what-we-are-doing/

Um, did you read the article?  Specifically the "What are we doing?" 
opening text and the third bullet point underneath it?




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