[KLUG Members] Mozilla and Firefox

[Andrew Eidson]

I downloaded firefox lastnight.. I have not run it through its paces yet but
on Fedora it runs extremely fast compared to anything else I have used
(Galeon, Epiphany, Mozilla) The plugins work as well I am quite please with
the little I was able to use it lastnight.

-----Original Message-----
From: members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org
[mailto:members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:17 AM
To: KLUG
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Mozilla and Firefox


> After I burned myself on this, I thought I would post to the group: a
> while ago, we were talking about Firebird/Firefox as a replacement for
> Galeon. After I downloaded the Firefox tar.gz binary directly from
> Mozilla's home page, I discovered that it was linked to GTK+ 1.2 -- no
> AA, XFT, XRender, fontconfig, &c.

Looks pretty bad, doesn't it.  :-)   (at least the firebird version did)

> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#new lists the two
> versions for Linux, GTK and GTK2+XFT. Get the latter. ;-)

And for those people running RPM based systems (or APT for RPM),
this place has prebuilt Firefox RPM's with all the XFT goodies:

  http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
  http://dag.wieers.com/packages/

And the Fedora built RPM's run fine under SuSE 9.0.

 - BS


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