RE: [ros-general] Firefox progress

[Casper Hornstrup]

Great!

Can you make Firefox start up faster and consume less memory too? ;-)

Casper

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-general-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf
> Of Ge van
>  Geldorp
>  Sent: 16. november 2005 17:35
>  To: 'ReactOS General List'
>  Subject: [ros-general] Firefox progress
>  
>  Firefox is a blocker for the 0.3.0 release, so I started working on getting
>  it running some time ago. Although I'm not making progress as fast as I'd
>  hoped (Firefox is a bitch to debug), there definitely is progress. You can
>  see current state of affairs on the screenshot at
>  http://www.reactos.nl/pics/ff3.png (125Kb). Problems recently fixed:
>  
>  - Menu dropdowns are shown now
>  - Icons on the toolbar are properly shown (work done by Blight)
>  - Menus don't only show, but actually work
>  - When opening a web page, the menu bar would be totally blacked out. This
>  has been fixed.
>  - Stability improved
>  
>  What still needs work:
>  - The installer reportedly doesn't work
>  - Sometimes you need to wiggle around the mouse a little bit to get the page
>  to render
>  
>  If you want to try it out for yourself, get r19269 (or later). Copy
>  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox" and all its subdirectories from a Windows
>  installation to your ReactOS disk, then start firefox.exe in that directory.
>  
>  Gé van Geldorp.
>  
>  
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