There are plans to distribute the GRE as a standalone download from
ftp.mozilla.org. I don't know what the timeframe for that is though.
For now, you may need to ask your users to install a copy of the Mozilla
suite on their systems. You can also build Mozilla yourself. Part of
the build process generates the GRE as a separate package. We are just
not staging that result on ftp.mozilla.org yet! :(
-Darin
fltcpt wrote:
Thanks all, in this case I will have to explore other
venues. But I do ask for recommendations, like
is there any *small* foot print GRE I can
distribute with my code? Size is paramount
in my case, especially when I used to distribute
zero bytes of GRE....
I do understand stripped down version means
limited functionality (and I haven't stated what
I need) but I am wondering if I can even pick
and choose stuff that I need and ditch the
rest, etc etc (you get the idea...)
To be honest, I am suprised that statically
linking GRE reduces Firefox's size that much.
I would imagine what's saved are mostly
IPC code....
Darin Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Christian Biesinger wrote:
fltcpt wrote:
With Firefox, I don't see a seperate
GRE directory anymore... I pointed
my GRE path to the Firefox installation
directory when I call init embedding..
it failed.
Firefox does not support this.
(It it statically built, i.e. all part of xpcom and the components of
the browser are all part of the firefox.exe file)
Please note that this was done to reduce the download size of Firefox
and to enhance runtime performance.
We hope to be able to resurrect some sort of dynamically linked Gecko
runtime for future versions of Firefox, so that Gecko embedders can
leverage Firefox installations. However, it is a tall order since we
must do so without regression our performance and codesize metrics (too
badly).
-Darin
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