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.

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Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com>
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