Re:20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows ...
by bzbarsky on Monday January 24, 2011 @11:42AM
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> That xulrunner/FF/thunderbird/etc. are built from the same tree
xulrunner and Firefox are (since Firefox is a strict superset of xulrunner). Thunderbird pulls in the core code and has a separate tree for the mail-specific stuff.
The line of code count is what it is, but what makes that "bloated"? Have you compared that to any other reasonably full-featured web browser (e.g. not links)? Have you compared the dependencies to any other web browser? I think you're just severely underestimating how much stuff a web browser is expected to do nowadays...
Most of the build options are dead, in fact (as in, if you try to use them, they won't build). There's ongoing work to remove them from the configure script so as not to confuse people.
xulrunner and Firefox are (since Firefox is a strict superset of xulrunner). Thunderbird pulls in the core code and has a separate tree for the mail-specific stuff.
The line of code count is what it is, but what makes that "bloated"? Have you compared that to any other reasonably full-featured web browser (e.g. not links)? Have you compared the dependencies to any other web browser? I think you're just severely underestimating how much stuff a web browser is expected to do nowadays...
Most of the build options are dead, in fact (as in, if you try to use them, they won't build). There's ongoing work to remove them from the configure script so as not to confuse people.