On 11:41 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: > I don't have any on my system, using xulrunner. I can remove firefox > and emerge never tries to bring it back from the dead. However, as you > noticed, xulrunner is basically as big as firefox. > > An added bonus, though, is that firefox itself can build against > xulrunner, so if you're using xulrunner you might as well keep > firefox. Firefox 3.x takes just 45 seconds to compile on my machine > when using the xulrunner USE flag. > > Basically, if you want to use any gecko/mozilla/firefox plug-ins, > you're stuck with some form of giant-package, either xulrunner or > mozilla-firefox.
I guess thats it then, i will have to perhaps keep it lying around. I dont want to replace one heavyweight so that i can get punched by another :-) Thanks for everybody's input though. -- Regards, Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com> About *NIX: If its not fun, why do it?
