Not just for dogfooding, but because it's actually faster than running the native binary: The reason is not clear - hypotheses include MSVC++ builds being much better optimised than gcc builds. I'm sure people are investigating closely. Anyway, I just reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 and put KDE 4.2 on top and *didn't* install the distro Firefox. No, I got Shiretoko (FF 3.1 nightly) win32 version. Quick guide: 1. The fonts are gonna suck real bad unless you get a current Wine and do the Wine registry thing. Then they'll only suck mostly bad. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "FontSmoothing"="2" "FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002 "FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578 "FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001 2. Use Liberation Mono as your monospace font, it's a nice Lucida Console substitute. Bad points: it looks KDE3/XP-ish and doesn't fit in at all with the loveliness of KDE 4.2. Good point: it's wicked fast. Any other useful hints to get Firefox in Wine as nice as possible? - d.
