[haiku-development] Re: Who wants to help develop a Haiku native web browser?
- From: Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:43:49 +0100
2009/2/25 hey68 you <hey68you@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Will Haiku still have Firefox for RC1?
Yes, also it will have all the patches and improvements that SHOULD
have been in mozilla code-base. Unfortunatly this means we are not
allowed to call it Firefox. It's ironic since the CVS one is subpar
and ours isn't and the reason they have that policy is so no one can
release subpar firefox builds.
> What is the status of porting Firefox 3.x to Haiku?
It halted the day they forced all platforms to use Cairo. Cairo is
ported, at least an old version, but so far no one has got it to pass
the tests. Unfortunatly they hardcoded it in almost everywhere, so you
have to drink the Cairo coolaid. Afaik there are no devs that are
interested in working on it anymore either.
> Will it be able to load up faster than current FF (Bon Echo) 2.0.0.18?
Probably faster than the current CVS 2.0.0.18 builds. Otherwise no,
Firefox 3 has added more bloat and work in the wrong direction to
provide fast startup. It might be faster internally though, although I
guess that will not be the case for our port as probably Cairo will
eat up any performance available.
Personally I think WebKit is the way to go, they seem to know about
designing software and even try to encourage and help ports. Chrome I
don't know about, but Ben Goodger who is the technical lead is from
Netscape and Firefox so it will probably go the same way as Firefox is
now.
/Fredrik Holmqvist, TQH
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