Firefox Gtk3 test package

[drago01]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> wrote:
> On Seg, 2014-01-13 at 16:53 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote:
>> 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/
>
> Hi,
> we have several replaces for flash plugin , but none works reasonably
> I'm talking about gnash , Lightspark and other that don't remember
> this shumway could really replace flash plugin  ?

No it cannot. Most of this flash implemenations only work to play
flash you don't want anyway (i.e ads).