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