Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 7th Aug 2008 05:35 UTC, submitted by Ali
The Mozilla and Nokia teams have been working hard to port Firefox 3 and the Mozilla Platform to Qt and there are now some solid results available from their efforts. An experimental build of Firefox Qt is available and you can download the sources from Mozilla's mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central Mozilla branch to make the port official.
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Basically, this version of Mozilla ports the underlying Mozilla platform (Gecko) to Qt. That includes XUL - so XUL applications (including Firefox) will work on the GTK version, or the Qt version. XUL's designed to be independent of whatever platform's sitting underneath it.
Same general idea as the Mac versions of Firefox 2 running on top of Carbon, while the Mac version of Firefox 3 runs on top of Cocoa.
I'll admit to not reading the article (site's down) - is this for Qt 4 or Qt 3? I assume 4, so this'd make a nice alternative to Konqueror on KDE 4 systems. As much as I like Konqueror, a version of Firefox that had reasonable integration with KDE (like the GTK version's integration with Gnome) would be great.
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2006-01-01
Wow this is good. QT should become the default toolkit for X.ORG - something like WIN32 for Windows. I just wonder, what will happen to the XUL GUI and apps requiring it including FF extensions?
That $ sign above was a typo and I can't seem to fix it.
Edited 2008-08-07 06:28 UTC