[arch-general] Compiling Firefox

Shridhar Daithankar ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net
Mon May 31 00:11:21 EDT 2010


On Monday 31 May 2010 09:03:08 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On 31/05/10 13:23, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.
> >>> that's a firefox port for the qt toolkit, as opposed to the regular gtk
> >>> one.
> >> 
> >> I know that, but is it worth installing ?
> > 
> > Surely you can decide yourself.
> 
> I heard that firefox-qt is still under heavy development and is not
> much good. I am on a slow connection, so would like a feedback if
> someone is already using it.

I would recommend rekonq and kde webkit part. The later is in AUR. For the 
former, it is available from upstream git and pretty usable as day-to-day 
browser, especially when there is firefox to fallback to.

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Regards 
 Shridhar


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