Firefox 3 Beta 2 in Rawhide

Martin Sourada martin.sourada at seznam.cz
Thu Dec 20 08:41:54 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:22 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Firefox 3 has finally landed in Rawhide. It's a slightly unpolished
> version and we appreciate if you test it and report all issues to
> bugzilla (like missing locales, broken plugins and so on).
> 
> If you're interested and don't want to switch to rawhide, you can run
> Firefox 3 on Fedora 8, too. Just download and compile the latest
> xulrunner (xulrunner-1.9-0.beta2.1.fc9) and then compile and install
> firefox from rawhide.
> 
> There's one side effect of this update. The former firefox-devel package
> has been removed from rawhide and gecko-libs 1.8 is no more shipped. All
> packages have to run with xulrunner (gecko-libs 1.9) now.
> 
> If you're a package maintainer and your package already uses xulrunner,
> please rebuild it against the new rawhide version. Xulrunner directory
> has been changed and many gecko packages (if not all) are linked with
> --rpath linker directive. As long as rpath is used you have to rebuild
> gecko-libs based packages after each xulrunner change so please consider
> to remove it. Gecko libraries are registered system wide by
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d and rpath should not be necessary in rawhide.
> 
> Happy testing&hacking! :)
> 
> ma.
> 
Hi,

That's good news! Just some little questions. Has epiphany been ported
on xulrunner or do I need to wait just a little more to upgrade firefox?

Are you interested also in gtk rendering issues? I noticed so far (using
mozilla's nightly builds of FF3) that the close buttons on tabs aren't
highlighted on mouseover action and checkboxes and radiobuttons seems to
have slightly wrong positioning when displayed on web pages. Also
widget's backgrounds seem to be derived from window's background, but
IMHO it should be derived from page element background it is on (but
this is really just a small issue).

Thanks,
Martin




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