State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project

Joseph S. Atkinson jsatkinson at embarqmail.com
Sun Mar 29 19:28:27 PDT 2009


matt donovan wrote:
> Well since Firefox3 is not a gecko port really. At least it does not run off
> of a gecko engine really I could update the firefox-devel ports or even
> firefox3 port but seems to me the firefox3 as a maintainer from what I have
> seen just that the firefox-devel port needs a maintainer and sicne I use
> firefox-devel already I could take that over if someone wishes.
> 

Firefox is a Gecko. Everything from Mozilla Foundation is a Gecko. Gecko 
is the underlying rendering engine that runs Mozilla, Firefox, 
Thundrbird, Sunbird, Seamonkey, Fennic, XULRunner, and even external 
stuff like NVU and KompoZer. I am sure there are more.

Just a point of clarity on that.


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