> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:dextrose- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bernie Innocenti > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 2:34 AM > To: Sridhar Dhanapalan > Cc: OLPC Devel; OLPC Australia list; Dextrose > Subject: Re: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending > > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 15:50 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > (sorry - sending again because I had the wrong address for the olpc > > devel list) > > > > > > Firefox 3.5 is being EOLed by Mozilla[0] and Google is dropping > > support for it[1]. In 10.1.3 this is default Web browser in GNOME and > > the backend of the Browse activity, so we should be thinking of what > > that means for us. > > > > The plan for Australia is to have a Fedora 14 build (based on DX12) > > ready by January. F14 comes with Firefox 3.6, which is the oldest > > version supported by Mozilla and Google. > > > > What would be even better is to have Firefox 4 available. By January, > > Firefox 3.6 will be quite old and close to EOL. Firefox 4 is a fair > > bit faster than 3.6, allowing us to squeeze extra performance out of > > our XOs. There is a yum repository for F14[2]. > > > > I use this on my F14 work machine (albeit in x86_64), and I've had no > > problem. Browse continues to work in Sugar. > > > > Are there any thoughts/plans about including Firefox 4 in the OLPC/DX OS? > > There was some discussion at EduJam. Browse is currently unmaintained, but > Simon Schampijer and Gonzalo Odiard expressed interest in working on it. There > was the question of missing support for the Python bindings of GtkMozEmbed, > but the problem appears to be solved now.
What is the solution? david > In the longer term, there's also the option of switching to Surf, an alternative > browser based on WebKit which promises to be faster and less memory hungry > than Browse. This depends on Lucian Branescu (or someone > else) resuming the work on it. Migrating to Surf wasn't feasible with Fedora 11 > because too many of WebKitGtk's dependencies were missing. > > -- > Bernie Innocenti > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team > > > _______________________________________________ > Dextrose mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
