[Request] move www/firefox3 to www/firefox.

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:24:24 -0600, Denise H. G. <darcsis at gmail.com> wrote:

> matt donovan <kitchetech at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Andrew W. Nosenko <
>> andrew.w.nosenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>> > Howdy Gnomies,
>>> >
>>> > I think it is time to move www/firefox3 to www/firefox and set  
>>> firefox3
>>> > as the default Browser. Firefox 2.0.X isn't supported upstream
>>> > and we need to mark firefox 2.0 as FORBIDDEN. It has some critical
>>>
>>> Unfortunatelly, Gecko-based GNOME applications (epiphany, devhelp, for
>>> example) cannot be compiled using firefox3 from the one hand and its
>>> WebKit incarnations aren't ready yet.  Therefore, it is too early to
>>> remove firefox2 yet, as for me.  Too many harm may occur...
>>>
>>> > Security isusses which will be not fixed by the Mozilla Foundation.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Please see also:
>>> >
>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/02/03/firefox-306-security-and-stability-release-now-available/
>>> >
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko at gmail.com>
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>>
>> epiphany can use xulrunner last time I checked not sure if it can on  
>> FreeBSD
>> or not since I do not really looked on FreeBSD but I know many Linuxes  
>> are
>> just using xulrunner for epiphany now
>
> I'm using xulrunner based epiphany on FreeBSD. It seems there are no big  
> problems.

The firefox and xulrunner have the same exactly core, but firefox is  
probably more up to date than xulrunner. Therefore, it makes no difference  
and we need someone to finish the xulrunner19.

Cheers,
Mezz


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