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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If they use the qt4 library (for KDE 4), then it'll probably be pretty darn efficient. From what I understand, qt4 is considerably faster and lighter on resources even with all the expanded functionality.
However, the really important thing to notice here is that Mozilla has decided to work with the KDE community and Nokia (who owns Trolltech, the developers of Qt). This is exciting news, and I hope they stay committed to each other.
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2005-09-01
I wonder how would it impact FF speed. I have high hopes positively. Where does it position Gecko cairo work?