Firefox Gtk3 test package

[Martin Stransky]

On 01/13/2014 04:48 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 13.01.2014 16:41, schrieb Josh Boyer:
>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/13/2014 04:29 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> first $SUBJ is available at:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://stransky.fedorapeople.org/FirefoxGtk3/
>>>>>
>>>>> It's just a src.spm and plugin support it not finished (don't browse
>>>>> youtube
>>>>> ;-)) but may work as a preview.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll provide Fedora builds and repo later.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you explain why this is important/newsworthy?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't say it's important/newsworthy. It's just FYI. Please ignore if
>>> you're not interested.
>>
>> Ok, I'll rephrase.
>>
>> I'm interested but I have no idea how this is different from every
>> other Firefox build that Fedora provides.  Could you elaborate on the
>> change some and why it's being made?
>
> most likely to have a chance to get rid of gtk2 package which otherwise
> you would need forever installed and loaded by using FF on GNOME3
>

Unfortunately that's not entirely true unless you want to run it without 
NPAPI plugin support. The recent solution links plugin-container to gtk2 
libraries to run flash and so (Java is not supported because it does not 
run OOP).

When flash plugin is replaced by shumway [1] we can build FF as pure 
gtk3 app and emulate flash by JS.

ma.

[1] http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/