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John Dexter

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Jan 22, 2011, 7:15:42 PM1/22/11
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I wondered can anyone give me an understanding on which versions of XUL map
to which versions of FireFox? Am I right that the current 2.9.x versions are
used/equivalent to FF4? What version would be most similar to FF3 (or FF2 if
XUL was around back then)?

I was unable to find any working downloads for versions earlier than 2.9, do
they exist anywhere? I want to obtain a version which has no support for
accelerated rendering (on Windows) for compatibility testing. Is there an
archive anywhere? There are links on
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/xulrunner but they are all broken for me.

Thanks!

Philipp Wagner

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Jan 22, 2011, 8:38:14 PM1/22/11
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Hi John,

Am 23.01.2011 01:15, John Dexter wrote:
> I wondered can anyone give me an understanding on which versions of XUL map
> to which versions of FireFox? Am I right that the current 2.9.x versions are
> used/equivalent to FF4? What version would be most similar to FF3 (or FF2 if
> XUL was around back then)?

where did you get version 2.9 from? XULRunner releases have the same
version number as the corresponding Gecko version, Firefox 4 ships with
Gecko 2.0, so it'll be XULRunner 2.0. Firefox 3.6 is built on top of
Gecko 1.9.2, Firefox 3.5 on Gecko 1.9.1.

> I was unable to find any working downloads for versions earlier than 2.9, do
> they exist anywhere? I want to obtain a version which has no support for
> accelerated rendering (on Windows) for compatibility testing. Is there an
> archive anywhere? There are links on
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/xulrunner but they are all broken for me.
>

The releases are available at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/releases/, nightly builds at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/nightly/ (mozilla-central
corresponds to the code that will be Firefox 4.0)

Philipp

John Dexter

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Jan 22, 2011, 8:56:42 PM1/22/11
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Sorry, some kind of typo! I was thinking of 1.9.2 which is the newest
released XULRunner. If you're saying 1.9.2 is FF 3.x not FF4, how come it
claims to support hardware graphics acceleration (it appears to have
relevant flags at least)? Or does the 1.9.x version simply not support
Direct2D/DirectGraphics acceleration? We're seeing D3D in our app screws up
XUL rendering (OpenGL doesn't) so I assumed accelerated rendering in XUL was
the reason.

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Boris Zbarsky

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Jan 23, 2011, 2:34:36 PM1/23/11
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On 1/22/11 8:56 PM, John Dexter wrote:
> Sorry, some kind of typo! I was thinking of 1.9.2 which is the newest
> released XULRunner. If you're saying 1.9.2 is FF 3.x not FF4, how come it
> claims to support hardware graphics acceleration (it appears to have
> relevant flags at least)?

It does? Where?

1.9.2 has no hardware acceleration for graphics.

> Or does the 1.9.x version simply not support
> Direct2D/DirectGraphics acceleration?

Correct.

-Boris

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