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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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The future of Nokia

by ultrabill on Thu 7th Aug 2008 12:06 UTC

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2008-08-07

- Nokia bought Trolltech (QT)
- Nokia bought SymbianOS
- Nokia is porting Firefox/gecko to QT

Symbian release will use Gecko instead of Webkit for their browser, that's all.

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RE: The future of Nokia

by KAMiKAZOW on Thu 7th Aug 2008 13:28 in reply to "The future of Nokia"

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Symbian release will use Gecko instead of Webkit for their browser, that's all.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Why should someone prefer a rengering engine with worse performance than WebKit? On the desktop where it's not that significant, OK, but on mobiles?

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RE[2]: The future of Nokia

by ultrabill on Thu 7th Aug 2008 13:42 in reply to "RE: The future of Nokia"

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I don't know, maybe because Apple is too closed from Webkit.

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RE: The future of Nokia

by segedunum on Thu 7th Aug 2008 14:21 in reply to "The future of Nokia"

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Nokia, even outside of Trolltech, has been contributing a ton of stuff to WebKit, and Qt is using WebKit as its preferred engine.

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