Firefox progress

[Ge van Geldorp]

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.

[Casper Hornstrup]

Great!

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

Casper
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [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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