State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project

matt donovan kitchetech at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 05:03:18 PDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Joseph S. Atkinson <
jsatkinson at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

thanks for clarifying that since, I just went with what mozilla says about
xulrunner. I knwo xulrunner has gecko rendering engine in it but the upkeep
is a bit different then a gecko application from what I have seen.


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