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