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0 pointskuschku8y ago0 comments

Which sucks so horribly that several distros actually maintain a full fork of Firefox where all those are patched to use Qt instead.

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mook8y ago· 3 in thread

Interesting; do you know which distros do that? I know Nokia started the Qt stuff (for Maemo), but wasn't aware that anybody was continuing to maintain it. But I haven't looked at things at a level that would have let me know in quite a while.

shmerl8y ago

SailfishOS developers were dragging it along, but after Mozilla dropped support for IPC Embedlite[1] (they never even accepted it officially), I think they got stuck with outdated Gecko. No idea what they are doing about it.

1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI

kuschkuOP8y ago

The SUSE distros are patching Firefox to use QT dialogs for everything, but kept the GTK core loop.

shmerl8y ago

Why didn't they replace all GTK with Qt and proposed to upstream it? That would have been really good.

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