Firefox Developer Edition

Fulgurance · Veteran Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 1198

Hello, i search but i dont found any package for compile Firefox developer édition with emerge or overlay. Somebody know where i download this repository ?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:51 am Post subject:

I find only bin version see here
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:52 am Post subject:

Fulgurance,

If you build firefox with USE=bindist, what you get advertises itself as the developer edition.
It doess that for all versions. You still need to chose the codebase you want.
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Perfect Gentleman · Veteran Joined: 18 May 2014 Posts: 1245

afask, there are no sources for developer version (currently 5

, only binaries.

Fulgurance · Veteran Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 1198

Oh okay. Its possible to clone gît repository for developer Firefox édition and compile it ?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:18 am Post subject:

Fulgurance,

Yes and maybe. The git branch you choose may not compile
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Perfect Gentleman · Veteran Joined: 18 May 2014 Posts: 1245

Mozilla uses mercurial repositories

Fulgurance · Veteran Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 1198

Oh, il dont understand mercurial use flag is for enable development firefox edition. ????

rob_dot_p · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2017 Posts: 30

I think if you emerge the beta version fromhttps://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla.git/tree/www-client/firefox
and set +bindist, you'll get what's usually refered to as developer edition.

Fulgurance · Veteran Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 1198

Yes, it's good, i have added mozilla overlay with bindist useflag, is good ! Thanks

Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:39 am Post subject:

Hi, where do we get the Developer build on Gentoo, Portage or any overlay?

I noticed that

acmondor · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 1:49 pm Post subject:

If you just need to get unsigned extensions working, this may help: https://bugs.gentoo.org/802285#c4

Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:57 am Post subject:

Thanks.
Do I understand this right, current setting is --with-unsigned-addon-scopes=apps,system? And this does make xpinstall.signatures.required not being ignored anymore?
What should be the setting to allow the user scope to install unsigned addons?

btw. manually installing Addons to /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions would be a workaround. However /usr/lib64 is more reserved for Portage, I would prefer /usr/local/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions, but I guess this is part of how Firefox works and not possible to configure at build time, is it?
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acmondor · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 1:43 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, I did not dig into the details of the issue, so I am unable to answer your questions. Maybe the folks involved in the bug report can help there.

What I do know is moving the addons to /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions did get them working again for me and so far there has not been any issues with portage. When a new version of firefox is emerged that directory is left as is, so one need not reinstall the addons each time firefox is upgraded.

In the end I kind of prefer the addons in /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions because it eliminates the need to reinstall them every time a new profile is created. It does however require a bit of manual intervention when an extension needs an upgrade.