It would be nice to see something like this in Chrome. In the meantime, have you had a look at Prism? It sounds similar to what you are trying to achieve and it keeps up to date with the latest Firefox. http://prism.mozilla.com/
On Dec 22, 10:46 am, Cees <[email protected]> wrote: > My company is currently working with a 'container' that is based on > FF2. Our (web) application supports airport staff with checking in, > boarding, load control etc. There are 2 main reasons why we can't use > a standard web browser in these environments: > 1-There are very specific peripheral devices that need to be > supported. it is bit too complex to describe this in detail, but we > need to support at least 4 different legacy middleware (common use) > systems that run boarding pass printers, bar code scanners etc. > Signals from these devices are passed on to the web server. > 2-No open browsers are supported due to security regulations on the > airport, and if they exist, they are set to maximum security. > > We resolved these issues by creating our own stripped version of FF2. > This version is: > -stripped (in order to limit the size of the executable > -does not have an address bar. It only contains a set number of URL's > (our prod system and some test systems) > -able to interact with the airport peripherals (exchanging device > addresses) > > of course this container needed to be certified by the various > infrastructure providers, and it needs to be rolled out once. > > The above solution works. It allows us to roll out a web based > application, and run it in airport environments, but rendering of FF2 > is dramatic compared to any modern browser, especially Chrome. In > short, we want to redo this trick and use Google chrome open source as > the base for our new 'container'. Has anyone done something similar > before? Are there any suggestions? The main driver is: speed. > > Cees. -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
