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hirakendu
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: firefox 3.1 (alpha) + sun java 1.6.0.10 (beta) [howto] |
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This is just a quick and dirty hack to get firefox 3.1 alpha (nightly trunk - minefield) binary version working. Current stable sun java apparently doesn't work and the beta version of sun java 1.6 update 10 is required (current version is 7). The reason - I find the firefox 3.0 a little unstable to my taste, especially with flash. (Perhaps just my system libraries). Also a little adventurous. Plus adobe flash beta 20080702 has been unstable (some sites like nvidia.com just krash). So here we go.
The firefox part : Just edited the ebuild to comment out all linguas and change the SRC_URI and src_unpack(). Get the modified ebuild, get firefox binary from trunk, and digest it (might require a failed emerge for that) and then emerge it :
The java part : This is a little odd (due to license issues). Get the latest sun java 1.6 update 10 (beta, early access) from
and use the modified ebuild. The SRC_URI has been removed and src_unpack modified (as license doesnt scroll down to accept). Extract the binary manually. After emerging, go to the plugins folder and remove link javaplugin.so to libjavaplugin_oji.so, and make a new link to libnpjp2.so :
Also try netscape-flash beta 20080702 (in portage). Uses hardware 3d accel for playback apparently. Translucent menus now work without overlapping (try using the drop down menu in http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/). Some websites may be slow though (nvidia.com, yahoo.com for example).
Of course, firefox trunk (minefield) keeps updating automatically (perhaps too frequently). Enjoy the goodies in acid3 (http://acid3.acidtests.org/).
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