On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:33:58AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > Mark Moorcroft wrote: > > > >I know mozilla is in the Fink app list. Is there a particular reason why > >Firefox is not? It is about the most popular browser these days. > > The most common reason why a particular package is missing from Fink is > that nobody has made it. You have basically two possibilities to get a > firefox package from Fink: > > - Put in a package request on the package request tracker. Then sit back > and wait. Or > > - Make a package and submit it on the package submit tracker. > I compiled a few tens of MB of stuff out of the mozilla.org sources (about a week old CVS + a minor fix) but it is probably not of sufficient quality for packaging. For one I would have to know what stuff is needed and what is useless and a second problem is making mozilla create a nice unix-like hierarchy. The one I have is all stuffed into a single directory. But basically the gtk2 interface works. Also (IMHO) better antialiasing than the Aqua browsers ;-)
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