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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: kmozilla patches

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 22:35:32 -0500
> On Sunday 02 October 2011 02:06:48 Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
>> > So here is a list of known issues:
>> > - buttons like back, forward do not work
>> > - progress indication seems broken
>> > - some webpages load and then display a white screen
>>
>> I forgot to add.
>> It's necessary for the kmozilla binary to see two environment variables
>> as well.
>> First of all, it needs to find its libraries and also it needs to know
>> the location of the Mozilla environment it should use. Something like
>> this should work:
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.23/
>> export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.23/
>> konqueror
>> (and open a site and choose kmozilla as the viewer)
>>
>> Maybe a kcontrol panel could be added at some point that allows choosing
>> the Mozilla environment to use.
>
> What is needed to enable this Mozilla support?
> It seems it wants gtkmozembed.h which is not provided by any devel
> package.
>

We are not yet sure if gtkmozembed has been removed in the latest
xulrunner versions.  Right now this is only for systems with Firefox less
than version 5, and work will be done to see if this can be extended to
later Firefox versions in the future.

Tim