[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