Friday, January 21, 2011

Desktop Firefox Qt. what next?

Hello everybody.
Recently found post about Qt Firefox

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/373568/mozilla_revives_qt_port_firefox_4/

Really nice that Qt Firefox has been noticed, and Big Thanks to John Ford for tinderbox Qt port tinderbox builds setup and making that happen.

Desktop Qt builds should really help us get more feedback about Firefox-Qt problems and help make it closer to Firefox-Gtk port quality.

So what is further plans for Firefox Qt:
1) Fix trivial and most annoying bugs which are visible on tinderbox-builds
2) Setup nightly builds and and have possibility track regressions (without recompiling).
3) Setup testing slaves, mochitests, reftests... and make them green.
4) Make Firefox-Qt builds visible on Try Server, and possibly on Official Test Server as soon as Qt port stable and good maintained.


Try it, report bugs to
Widget Qt bugzilla

if you have patches, attach them to bugzilla ask me (:romaxa) or Wolfgang (:wolfiR) or :dougt.turner for review.

3 comments:

  1. Hello Oleg!

    Quim directed me to you, since you did some work on building Fennec for Meego. I'm new to Meego, and still trying to figure out what's where. I'm interested in helping in some way to enable Fennec for upcoming N9 / N950 with Meego/Harmattan or Meego CE (building, packaging, testing etc.). If you can direct me to some information about it, whether something needs to be done etc. it'll be very helpful.

    If I understood correctly, Harmattan will have apps.meego.com repository for open source projects. Will Firefox belong there? (And is it the same for Meego CE?). I'm still a bit confused about this all, so I'm sorry in advance if I don't get it right away :)

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  2. Here is the instructions about Fennec installation on Harmattan SDK:
    https://wiki.mozilla.org/How_To_Build_Fennec_on_Harmattan_SDK

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  3. Thanks! I'll definitely give it a try.

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