On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
>From looking at the Browse problem for Fedora 15 / SoaS 5 it seems that hulahop needs to be ported to the latest xulrunner 2/xulrunner-python and we should be mostly good to go. I have no idea how much work this would be though. Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
