Posts Tagged ‘prism’
Updating your Mozilla Prism to the latest build
I have already twittered about it but figured I'd might as well share it here.
You may know Prism - Mozilla's lightweight version of the Firefox browser. It makes the perfect browser for online applications that you might have running the entire day, such as Gmail or Google Docs that can slow down your browser.
What you might not know is that Prism (formerly known as "Web Runner") is built on Mozilla's XUL Runner runtime:
XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird.
Now, Prism doesn't have nightly builds (a daily developer version of the software for testing purposes) like for instance Firefox, but XUL Runner does. This means that if you (like me) are a sucker for having the latest build, you can update the engine which Prism runs on (XUL Runner).
The recipe can be found here but all you really need to do is to download the latest XUL Runner build (from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/nightly/latest-trunk/), extract it and put the content of the "xulrunner" folder in the already existing "xulrunner" folder in your Prism installation.
This actually solved an issue with my Prism which sometimes wouldn't load right. Now it does, and all it took was a bit of nerding around :-)
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