On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 01:29:55AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Jörg, > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 09:44:19PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm happy to announce that from the next nightly built[1] conkeror > > > .deb on, the conkeror Debian package supports releases of Ubuntu > > > without xulrunner (i.e. the current release called 11.10 aka Oneirc) > > > again. > > > > Do you have access to the conkeror wiki? > > Yes. > > > Would you put a note about it on the page > > <http://conkeror.org/InstallationDebian>? Or simply a link to your > > blog posting. > > Thanks for the idea! I'm a little bit ashamed that I didn't think > about this myself. > > Done. > > > Maybe you could add a short note about using firefox instead of xulrunner > > on <http://conkeror.org/Installation>, too. I'll check this on Windows > > next week, but using firefox instead of xulrunner has the advantage the > > firefox updates itself while the updates for xulrunner have to be done by > > hand and it's more likely to find firefox already installed on a system > > than xulrunner. > > > > If you have firefox already installed on your system, you can use it > > instead of xulrunner to run conkeror. The only disadvantage is the page > > about: shows the firefox logo. > > > > firefox -app /path/to/conkeror/application.ini > > Somehow I'm surprised that this hasn't been more widespread yet. I > heard about this just one or two times before, once on the list and > once on IRC or so. And until this thread on the list I never tried it > as didn't need it. > > Because of this, I'm a little bit reluctant to advertise it there, > too. If this way has not much more side-effects than already known, > I'm also for advertising it. > > John: Do we have any experience how reliable this is in general? Are > there more known issues like the one with the about: page? Or why > hasn't this been promoted before?
I seem to recall that in earlier Mozilla releases, this feature was not universally available on all platforms. It worked on Windows and not Linux. Thus we never paid much attention to it, and only occasionally suggested it as an alternative for people who couldn't get XULRunner working on their system. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
