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I think the easiest way to port Firefox to android would be to write an android-backend (which could well be based on our headless backend) - I didn't think that the Android native development kit was fully featured enough to allow something like this though? | I think the easiest way to port Firefox to android would be to write an android-backend (which could well be based on our headless backend) - I didn't think that the Android native development kit was fully featured enough to allow something like this though? | ||
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You can't run Firefox with the headless backend as it is, it's designed to be embedded and for libxul to be used. The headless backend is also heavily dependent on GLib (for the main loop, signals and idle handlers). | |||
If you wanted to run Firefox, you'd have to write a new backend, or modify an existing one, to provide the application framework. In the gtk2 and headless backends, this is GLib-based. The Gtk2 backend creates a GtkWindow and that is how the user sees and interacts with the application. On the headless backend, there is no visible window. It can only be used for embedding via libxul. | |||
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Chris has a [http://chrislord.net/files/fosdem-09-slides.odp presentation] that explains the headless branch a bit. | |||
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