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Firefox 3 for QT

How does it affect NITs?

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

I presume none. I guess The engine wouldn't be in QT, just the interface. As we have our own interface (MicroB/browser-ui) which is in GTK that uses the engine.

Besides, the next release of ITOS will have unofficial community QT support and the release after that will have official QT support built in AFAIK.

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

The Gecko engine is written in C++.

But there are Qt and GTK UI for KHTML/WebKit already, while there wasn't a Qt UI for Mozilla. Soon, Qt (and KDE) users can benefit from Gecko and/or Mozilla in native Qt.

Maybe Nokia will, after Harmatan, switch to Qt instead of GTK.

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

There is a QT port of firefox3 for the NITs as of Wednesday-

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=22609

but I haven't seen anyone get it up and running yet

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

I tried to compile, under sbox... but I getting some weird errors...

Quote:

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config'
/home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config/nsinstall -R -m 644 ../mozilla-config.h /home/fazzi/dev/firefox/mozilla-qt/config/nsStaticComponents.h ../dist/include
make[4]: /home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config/nsinstall: Command not found
make[4]: *** [export] Error 127
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config'

Oh yes.. I have this file....

Quote:

[sbox-ARMEL_2007gcc4q3: ~/dev/firefox/mozilla-qt] > ls -la /home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config/nsinstall
-rwxrwxr-x 1 fazzi fazzi 18601 Aug 8 16:27 /home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config/nsinstall
[sbox-ARMEL_2007gcc4q3: ~/dev/firefox/mozilla-qt] > file /home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config/nsinstall
/home/fazzi/dev/firefox/obj-qt/config/nsinstall: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.14, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

What's the point of a Qt port of FF3? It wouldn't run faster on the tablet or consume less memory, would it?

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

QT 4 uses less memory then QT 3...

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

Less memory than GTK?

Re: Firefox 3 for QT

There are some compares between memory usage of GNOME and KDE, one of a year or so ago, by Novell employee Lucas. KDE was a bit lighter on memory usage.