HOWTO: Mozilla Firefox with improved GNOME support

allex87 · Last edited by allex87 on Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:39 am; edited 2 times in total

This HOWTO aims to guide you through the process of installing a version of Firefox with improved GNOME support

Thanks to IWBCMAN for the initiative at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-323850-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html

What it includes:

First, go to this bugzilla page and download mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1.ebuild mozilla-firefox_1.0.2-0ubuntu5.diff and mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-gtk-xft-only.diff.

Now, make sure your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is set correctly in /etc/make.conf (ie. PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage)

Open up a terminal, and do this:

allex87 · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject:

And here are the promissed screenshots. I've hosted them at my hosting account (which I don't have much bandwidth for, so please, if someone could host these files elsewhere, it would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!

So, the screenshots are at: http://alex.buildtolearn.net/index.php?itemid=2

Have fun building, and post back problems/suggestions!

Cheers!

Lokheed · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:53 am Post subject:

Ahh, I see what they did. Looks like they just patched the aviary's. Nightly trunks from Mozilla are better than this. Same GTK file dialogue but better Preferences window:

http://www3.telus.net/titancreations/temp/preferences.png
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allex87 · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:

hoschi · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

HOT! Waiting for 1.03 Release

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Lokheed · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject:

steevdave · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:

something that might be worth mentioning - if you don't copy over the .desktop file and the icon from the $PORTDIR/www-client/mozilla-firefox/files then the desktop entry (in gnome) doesn't get created. and since this is done with emerge - the old version gets removed - or at least, that is what happened to me.

allex87 · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:38 am Post subject:

sofcik · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

I'm trying to compile it, but it seems that ebuild doesn't have deps - it is not compiling on system without gnome ( i'm trying to compile some libs from gnome, to find which ones are needed)
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sofcik · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

Now a can see how nice is firefox + gtk

gnomelibs and gnomeus are needed to compile this version of firefox.
Thx for that !
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otaku · Guru Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 428 Location: Rho (MI)

i can't compile it on ~amd64, has someone compiled it on this arch?
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steevdave · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 11:23 am Post subject:

For those who want gnome libs - but don't want to pull in all of gnome - there is also the gnome-light package... i believe it pulls in just the necessary libraries without stuff like metacity, epiphany, evolution and so forth - I would need to read the ebuild, but I was told it doesn't pull in everything.