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[ ] Applications work unchanged with GTK 2.8 and Firefox is imagination
[ ] Firefox does not work unchanged, but it's my fault because I use a released version of GTK which depends on an unreleased version of cairo
We have two contradicting explanations now, which one is correct?
Firstly, the development versions of Firefox use Cairo directly, so Firefox itself needs code changes if the Cairo API changes. That's what the weblog entry posted earlier was talking about, nothing to do with current Firefox releases (which don't use Cairo).
Secondly, GTK 2.8.0 was released in parallel with a a major version jump in Cairo, from 0.6.x to 0.9.x, which included an API change. It's my understanding that this release was only made once the Cairo developers confirmed that this was the final version of their API that would be in 1.0.
As it is, apps compiled for Gtk 2.6.x should run unchanged on 2.8.x. However, apps compiled for 2.7.x might not, and apps that use cairo directly probably won't either. As I said, if you run development releases, you expect to live with a bit of pain.