That's really nice to know. Thank you. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Daniel Pielmeier < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Messerschmitt schrieb: > > Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly? >> >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote: >>> >>>> Help me stop this from happening please. >>>> >>> In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem, >>> which was cured by converting the "firefox" use flag into "xulrunner". >>> >>> -- >>> ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. >>> Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license >>> #4933 >>> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of >>> room o >>> -- >>> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list >>> >>> >>> >> > Firefox 3 has been ported to use xulrunner [1,2,3] instead of gecko as > rendering engine. The main advantage of xulrunner for source based > distributions like gentoo is that building firefox (and other apps which are > ported to xulrunner) is way faster than before, because they can use > xulrunner as a shared runtime environment. This is more beneficial if you > use many apps based on xulrunner. Before you needed the runtime environment > for every single app. Now the source of firefox, thunderbird and sunbird is > about three times the size of seamonkey which contains the same > functionalities of the three apps. With the new xulrunner this will change > and you save a lot of bandwith too. > > As for myself I have replaced the firefox use-flags with xulrunner, > although it will take some time to gain benefit from this. > > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/GRE > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
