As many of you are aware, AOL’s latest version of Netscape is based upon Firefox, with a twist. It allows users to render their pages using their choice of either Internet Explorer’s rendering engine, or Gecko, the native Mozilla engine.<\/p>\n
For those who aren’t familiar there’s a good article on it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ability to switch between Gecko and Internet Explorer rendering engines is a good thing for users, I think, and. It allows them to use their browser of choice and still be able to browse any web pages they want. And of course, Gentoo is all about choice!<\/p>\n As such, a new version of Firefox will be in portage a bit later today with exactly this enhancement. Using the same basic technologies as Captive NTFS<\/a>, we are now able to make use of mshtml.dll on the Linux platform, and optionally use it in place of the gecko engine currently used by Mozilla Firefox.<\/p>\n The Internet Explorer renderer will be enabled by default in the ebuild, and can be switched off using a menu item once Firefox is running. I hope you all enjoy this technical innovation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As many of you are aware, AOL’s latest version of Netscape is based upon Firefox, with a twist. It allows users to render their pages using their choice of either Internet Explorer’s rendering engine, or Gecko, the native Mozilla engine. For those who aren’t familiar there’s a good article on it here. The ability to … Continue reading New Firefox soon!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/brad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}