Firefox and Cygwin

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Hi.
Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
the Xwindow environnement?
ThanX

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At Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:19:31 -0700 "Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net" wrote:

>
> Hi.
> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
> the Xwindow environnement?

Have you tried downloading the Linux port and building it in the Cygwin
environment?

The question remains: what exactly would be the advantage of a version
of Firefox built in Cygwin under MS-Windows? 90% of people using
MS-Windows are using the native MS-Windows environment (for which there
is a port of Firefox). And even Cygwin's X11 environment is layered
on top of the native MS-Windows environment, so the people using Cygwin
can still use the native MS-Windows port of Firefox.

People using a true X11 environnement (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.) have
available ports of Firefox built for these environments.

> ThanX
>
>

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:19:31 -0700, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net
wrote:
>
>
> Hi.
> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
> the Xwindow environnement?
> ThanX
>
Why would you do that when Firefox can run as a Windows application?


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On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net wrote:
> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
> the Xwindow environnement?

Do you have a *linux* question?

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Keith Keller writes:

> On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net wrote:
>> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
>> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
>> the Xwindow environnement?
>
> Do you have a *linux* question?
>
> --keith

That is a Linux question.

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Hadron writes:

> Keith Keller writes:
>
>> On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net wrote:
>>> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
>>> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
>>> the Xwindow environnement?
>>
>> Do you have a *linux* question?
>>
> That is a Linux question.

Really? In what sense?

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In message , Dan Espen wrote:

> Hadron writes:
>
>> Keith Keller writes:
>>
>>> On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net
>>> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
>>>> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
>>>> the Xwindow environnement?
>>>
>>> Do you have a *linux* question?
>>>
>> That is a Linux question.
>
> Really? In what sense?

As in "why isn't the OP running Linux?"
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Dan Espen writes:

> Hadron writes:
>
>> Keith Keller writes:
>>
>>> On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net wrote:
>>>> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
>>>> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
>>>> the Xwindow environnement?
>>>
>>> Do you have a *linux* question?
>>>
>> That is a Linux question.
>
> Really? In what sense?

Because cygwin is a Linux like environment?

I stand to be corrected if you think the link is too tenuous.

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"Dave {Reply Address in.Sig}" writes:

> In message , Dan Espen wrote:
>
>> Hadron writes:
>>
>>> Keith Keller writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
>>>>> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
>>>>> the Xwindow environnement?
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a *linux* question?
>>>>
>>> That is a Linux question.
>>
>> Really? In what sense?
>
> As in "why isn't the OP running Linux?"

No.

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On 2007-07-18, Hadron wrote:
> Dan Espen writes:
>
>> Hadron writes:
>>
>>> Keith Keller writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2007-07-18, Yves-Alain.Nicollet@bull.net wrote:
>>>>> Has anyone out there ever ported Firefox to Cygwin as an X11 client?
>>>>> Why is it so difficult to find the "best rated web browser" built in
>>>>> the Xwindow environnement?
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a *linux* question?
>>>>
>>> That is a Linux question.
>>
>> Really? In what sense?
>
> Because cygwin is a Linux like environment?

I know that's what their home page says, but it's wrong. Cygwin
provides a POSIX-like environment to Windows.

> I stand to be corrected if you think the link is too tenuous.

I think the link is nonexistent. To try to convince you, consider this
question:

"Has anyone out there gotten IE to work with WINE?"

Is that a Windows question? IMO no, because WINE is a linux application
which provides a Windows-like environment. Would somebody who uses
Windows exclusively know the answer to this question? Similarly,
someone who uses linux exclusively would have no clue from Cygwin.

Certainly the OP's question would be more appropriate in a Cygwin or
Firefox discussion group.

--keith

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