[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 at reactos.org [mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.org] 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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