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Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit


For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4

For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. Over the past two months though an independent user/developer, Jens Persson, has been working on adapting the GTK code within the Firefox codebase to use GTK4. It's a promising milestone though ultimately remains to be seen if/when Mozilla will pursue upstreaming the code or if this will take on a life of its own as an independent/community Firefox build in the interim or anything along those lines.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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