Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:09:25 +0100 From: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Build of Mozilla failed Message-ID: <200401241209.i0OC9PiS001657@moolenaar.net> In-Reply-To: <1074934229.1546.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Slow loading of pages, some parts of pages are not displayed. Would > > have to look into the page sources to find out why (perhaps it's > > javascript or something like that). I also see that my KDE color > > preferences mess up how the toolbar looks. > > I haven't noticed any problems like that. Do you have some example > pages? Since I don't use KDE, I don't have a suggestion on that. > Perhaps kde@ could offer more insight. I now found a way to run Mozilla next to Netscape (skip the shell script and start the executable directly). This requires creating a new user profile. Surprisingly this solved the problems I had with the color settings! Slow loading still exists, especially making the first connection to a site is very slow. > > > > - What are the -gtk2 and -bonobo versions? > > > > > > The gtk2 version is needed for building gtk2-based browsers like galeon2 > > > and epiphany which require Mozilla as a base. mozilla-bonobo is a > > > Mozilla plug-in that enables one to embed bonobo controls into Mozilla > > > (e.g. ggv, gpdf, gnumeric, etc.). > > > > And, eh, do I need it? > > If you have a lot of GNOME apps installed, and you like to view things > like PDF documents, spreadsheets, word processor documents, etc. > directly in your browser, then you'll want it. > > > I was hoping for an answer like "it runs faster > > but requires installing GTK2" or "uses more memory and doesn't offer > > more features". > > The -gtk2 version is prettier, but it is the same basic browser. If you > don't need gtk2 support, don't install it. That's more like the kind of answers I would like to see on that web page. Will help quite a few people to decide what version to install. > > Considering how much effort it has been to make all these ports, > > explaining people what the differences are can't be that much work. > > Unless the porters don't want anyone to know about their efforts... > > Finding the right place for this is the hard part. We could add another > project section (i.e. www.freebsd.org/mozilla), but that will take > approval from doc@, and someone to build the content. However, it's > something we should do. I have the impression that FreeBSD is currently a small group of clever and hard working engineers, with the marketing department missing. Thus they make a lot of nice things, but hardly anyone knows where to get it or what it actually does. No surprise FreeBSD is mostly used for servers. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke /// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@Moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// Sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ Project leader for A-A-P -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ Help AIDS victims, buy here: http://ICCF-Holland.org/click1.html ///
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