From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:48:55 -0700 From: Randolph Fritz To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser Message-ID: <20000718164855.E959@cyber-dyne.com> References: <3974AD4E.8312954A@mail.usask.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3974AD4E.8312954A@mail.usask.ca>; from aam396@mail.usask.ca on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:17:34PM -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e36e532a-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:17:34PM -0600, Andrey Mirtchovski wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > > There is a small, working web browser thinly built around Gecko alone, > > without the Mozilla baggage. It's called Galeon and is starting to > > become popular. It's at http://galeon.sourceforge.net > > Oh yeah, it made it to slashdot even... > > AFAIK it is tightly coupled with GNOME (they advertise it as a gnome web browser) > which means it exploits the gtk+ libraries. A freebsd port is in the works (if > not completed already) but a plan9 one would require gtk to be ported... And then > we may just as well start porting the entire gnome bloatware... :P > But Mozilla itself is not gtk based, so galeon might be a useful model for a more 9ish version. To be continued... -- Randolph Fritz Eugene, Oregon, USA