Re: Icecat 4.0 beta 8

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello,

many thanks for having done it.  I see there are small adjustments we
have to do in order to get IceCat working with Firefox 4.

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Mithrandir <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried Firefox 4.0 b8 recently, liked the speed, and decided to try to 
> compile
> a GNU version. :) Thought others might find it useful, so here it is:
>
> http://atomitware.tk/tests/icecat_4.0b8_i386.tar.bz2
>
> (Currently just a 32 bit GNU/Linux build. I used the Mozilla source code 
> merged
> with the Icecat svn patches; nothing else.)
>
> The source I used, with the patches already applied, can be found at:
> http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/4/1/2813701/mozilla-central.tar.bz2 (62.7M
> compressed, 334.2M uncompressed.) For this link, I have limited bandwidth so
> please download this only if you really need the source. :D
>
> As this Firefox is beta, it inherits all the bugs plus some. For instance
>
> *The about dialog uses old version, as new version gives a syntax error.
>
> *Get Addons is broken. Manager works okay.
>
> *Get "Error in XML file: [xpconnect wrapped nsIFile] SyntaxError: invalid XML
> tag syntax" from terminal. No idea why.
>
> *Privacy extension isn't recognized by default. It's in /extensions, so you
> could probably install it anyway.
>
> *Using this version, then switching over to an older version, messes up the
> toolbar for the old version. See http://i.imgur.com/ywM7B.png
>
> *omni.jar is not included. I think.
>
> *Probably more things I missed.
>
> It does have some pros though.
>
> *Pages load faster.
>
> *Plugin content is somewhat faster (Gnash specifically.)
>
> *Mostly supports HTML5 and probably OpenGL/WebGL (haven't tested.)
>
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> Of course, if you don't feel like messing about with errors, *don't use this
> version!* Get the latest stable version of Icecat from any GNU mirror
> (http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/).
>
> Regards.
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