[ros-general] Re: Browsers

[Martin Fuchs]

>    We should take Firebird (since its only the browser
> (not mail, IRC, 
>  composer, etc.) and its faster than IE) and add in the ActiveX control 
>  plug in (which you can get at: 
>  http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm) and also make a COM wrapper 
>  for the Gecko rendering engine, between those two we should have a full 
>  replacement to IE for the OS.  I think that there was some Netscape 
>  employees working on making a COM wrapper for Mozilla, but I can't 
>  remember the website, and development seemed to be pretty inactive, but 
>  its better than starting from scratch. 
I installed Firebird this week and have to admit I also like it.
But why do you think, it's faster then Internet Explorer?
It feels a bit more sluggish for example when resizing the windows.
But not really much, it's acceptable.
What I really like is it's popup window blocker.  :)

Then I downloaded it's source code and unpacked it onto my drive...
This are 184 MB of source code in numerous subfolders!
Is this really anything needed just to display HTML and a few other
protocolls? I did not try to compile it - reading the Howto has been
quite disgusting. You need cygwin, perl, and a few other special tools.

I think we should try to install it as binary Active-X control without
interating any source code into the ROS tree. (if that's possible)

Regards,

   Martin