Bug#352184: eclipse: cannot build from source with firefox support

Stephan Michels stephan.michels at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 07:35:03 UTC 2006


2006/2/10, Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de>:
> The support for firefox-dev is for Ubuntu. It doenst exist on Debian.
> That is intentional.
>
> We removed the Dependencies on firefox becuase it just doesnt work. We
> are still investigating this. The only thing that works currently is the
> mozilla-browser. firefox misses some symbol in its libraries. When this
> solved we will readd the other browsers.

I think we should switch to xulrunner. Using firefox for the browser bindings
wasn't very successful and I don't want to install the mozilla browser
only because of the browser bindings.

Hopefully I can try it later with xulrunner.

Stephan Michels.




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