GTK3 Version Of Firefox Up For Fedora Testing

[GreatEmerald]

It's for their GUI. Try right-clicking any yt-video.

Huh, now that you said it, I see that the menus I get when right-clicking on a Flash applet and when right-clicking elsewhere are different... That also shows just how poorly Firefox integrates with themes at the moment.

[oleid]

So then why are the symbols not versioned?

Actually, I don't know if symbol versioning is current practice.

As far as I understand it, it's Flash that requires GTK2. No idea why, though. So that means Flash doesn't support any versions of Qt, and only GTK2.

It's for their GUI. Try right-clicking any yt-video.

Good question, but it's not just the GTK3 port that is taking forever to complete. The Metro interface version for Win8 was started March 2012 and it's not out yet.

AFAIR it's not only porting to GTK3, it's also removing (or better: isolating) direct X11 dependencies to allow the port to Wayland. GTK3 deprecates X11 stuff in favour of cairo calls, c.f. the porting guide. Firefox uses GTK+ mostly for theming and often did the pixmap handling directly via X11. This needs to be ported to cairo which is a lot of delicate work and thus needs time.

If you used cairo in GTK2 and didn't use any X11 stuff (e.g. from GdkX11.h), porting to GTK3 and thus Wayland is quite simple.

[GreatEmerald]

I could-of swore plugin-container was already a separate process... *shrug*

At this point, I'd go for a Qt-based Firefox if it meant faster porting to newer versions :/
(btw, what versions of Qt does flash support?)

As far as I understand it, it's Flash that requires GTK2. No idea why, though. So that means Flash doesn't support any versions of Qt, and only GTK2.

[devius]

Can we please talk about how bullshit this is? I love Mozilla and Firefox but it's not like there's a million lines of GTK code in there; what the hell constitutes 3 years of porting?

Good question, but it's not just the GTK3 port that is taking forever to complete. The Metro interface version for Win8 was started March 2012 and it's not out yet.

[TheBlackCat]

GTK+ does not support stable interfaces for programs? Actually, GTK+ is quite API and even ABI stable. Even binary themes used to work without recompilation and I bet this is still the case.

So then why are the symbols not versioned?

[Daktyl198]

I think it more has to do with Flash being linked to GTK2; currently it is not possible to use GTK2 and GTK3 in the same process, thus Flash won't work with a GTK3 built of firefox where the plugin lives in the same process as the browser gui.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624422

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu...id=627699#c275

I could-of swore plugin-container was already a separate process... *shrug*

At this point, I'd go for a Qt-based Firefox if it meant faster porting to newer versions :/
(btw, what versions of Qt does flash support?)

[GreatEmerald]

I think it more has to do with Flash being linked to GTK2; currently it is not possible to use GTK2 and GTK3 in the same process, thus Flash won't work with a GTK3 built of firefox where the plugin lives in the same process as the browser gui.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624422

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu...id=627699#c275

Interesting. I never noticed that, but yes, flash-player requires libgtk-x11-2.0 at the moment.

[oleid]

The problem is, as stated in the wiki, the lack of symbol versions. Thus, having the same same, if you load both GTK2 and GTK3 into the very same process, the symbols interfere.

P.S.: stupid 5 min edit limit

[oleid]

I think I heard that officially the gtk devs have said that gtk is for gnome and that they don't support stable interfaces for programs, themes, etc that other stuff might use. I could be remembering stuff wrong though.

GTK+ does not support stable interfaces for programs? Actually, GTK+ is quite API and even ABI stable. Even binary themes used to work without recompilation and I bet this is still the case.

[oleid]

Also a good question: what does plugin-container have to do with GTK? Rather, what does NPAPI have to do with GTK that it cannot be built without linking to GTK2?
(at least that's what I've gotten from a brief look at the bug linked in the article)

I think it more has to do with Flash being linked to GTK2; currently it is not possible to use GTK2 and GTK3 in the same process, thus Flash won't work with a GTK3 built of firefox where the plugin lives in the same process as the browser gui.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624422

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699#c275