ALL things related to firefox/thunderbird 1.5!

[daywalkerNT]

I got around this >>>
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/embed-typeaheadfind.patch
!!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification

By:

# emerge mozilla-firefox-bin
# emerge sync
# emerge mozilla-firefox

hope that helps someone

[Gergan Penkov]

Now probably this is far fetched, but I could not reproduce the nsExpatDriver.cpp compilation problem myself.
Could someone, who experiences this problem, test if moving /usr/incude/expat.h and /usr/include/expat_config.h to some other place, will help him/her to compile firefox.
It seems that ff, somehow and sometimes probably includes the system expat-headers....

[irondog]

Firefox 1.5 is called Deerpark in Gentoo. This can be read when running configure --help.

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 --enable-official-branding Enable Official mozilla.org Branding
                          Do not distribute builds with
                          --enable-official-branding unless you have
                          permission to use trademarks per
                          http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/ 

Distrubutions should have permission to provide a firefox build with the official branding.

WTF??? Gentoo doesn't provide buids? Gentoo provides source! So, enable-official-branding

[Gergan Penkov]

Well it is better to wait a little bit, probably anarchy will resolve the issue and mozilla will give us the official branding.
now as I pointed here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-29 ... ml#2922304 and if I read the netcraft logs correctly, it seems that mozilla runs gentoo as master download server after the last years fiasco (for the 1.0 release) - so it is a little bit unfair to not give us the official-branding ::)))

[Hydonsingore]

To produce Firefox 1.5 Segment fault on my computer:

1. Backup profiles, then remove ~/.mozilla/firefox
2. Execute firefox 1.5, select "import nothing"
3. [Edit]===>[Preference] Change homepage to http://www.google.com/
4. Press Alt + Home to connect to homepage(Google)
5. Press the [Homepage] icon in the toolbar
6. Repeat 4 & 5
7. Exit firefox. Start firefox again.
8. Repeat 4 & 5

In my case with firefox or binary in portage, FF 1.5 always crashes at Step 5 or 6.

Update Dec 06
This problem seemed to have been fixed in the lastest (Dec 05) trunk build.

[xaos5]

EDIT: Fixed my problem by running firefox -safe-mode, I have another problem though, Fonts are very tiny could this be due to xorg not having displaysize set, gnome has dpi set at 72. setting firefox at dpi 72 does nothing.
EDIT AGAIN:okay, fixed dpi setting. Just had to restart firefox.

[Flammie]

Is [bug=70820]the localisation bug[/bug] now supposed to be fixed? It might of course be that the official language packs hadn't been released when I installed, but mine's back to English again.

[travlr]

Edit in: [solved]
The problem was with xorg.conf.... I commented out "RenderAccel" and "AllowGLXWithComposite". All is well now.

Hi

Having just installed ff1.5, I'm running into window control probs. Searched hard for previously mentioned solutions to no avail yet.

All window frame sizing/moving and frame buttons (ie: close;minimize;always-on-top;maximize;etc.) are in-operable and so is kde log-out (kicker ok). I have some mixed branches and for ff I had to upgrade to (and currently have): glib-2.8.3; pango-1.10.1; cairo-1.0.2; gtk+-2.8.6-r1(& slotted 1.2.10-r11). I'm guessing I've stepped on other dependencies. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help.

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sh-3.00# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dts eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[dmbtech]

--enable-canvas and --enable-svg REALLY need to be default in the use flags, a user should not have to provide them. When a website says it requires firefox 1.5 for svg to work, gentoo users will get all confused, saying they do have 1.5, but it isn't working for the. Canvas and svg are what makes 1.5 1.5, and should really be enabled by default, or bad things will happen.

[lump]

ff 1.5 works pretty well here

next thing is, that in xfce4 all window descriptions in the taskbar arent cut, but displayed in the whole length so they just write away into the next apps little icon... but that more probably then not is a xorg (6.8.2-r6) problem - which i couldnt find anything about it and would be very thankful if anyone could point me in the right direction

other than that i really have to thank you guys for making such a great ebuild

I'm seeing this problem as well, on two machines, and it did not start until I installed ff 1.5.

I'm also seeing inconsistency with fonts depending on the site. First, I had to add screen dimensions to the Xorg config. FF did not have a problem with font sizes before, but I can understand needing to specify if it's looking for size info when rendering. The font sizes are normal on a few sites (here, slashdot, etc) and HUGE on others (tfd.com). This happens no matter what combination font settings I try in ff.

Any ideas?

[Valery Cedigt]

Hello,

This is about the installation process of ff on my system.

At the first install (emerge --update --deep world), ff started (and stopped brutally) leaving the following message :

No running windows found
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libxremote_client.so: undefined symbol: _Z20NS_NewGenericModule2P12nsModuleInfoPP9nsIModule
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (127)


The lib (libxremote_client) belongs to the Thunderbird 1.0.7 ebuild (tx equery).


Remerge Firefox 1.5 : no change.
Unmerge Fx, remerge Thunderbird, merge Fx : no change.
Unmerge Fx, unmerge Thunderbird, merge Fx : Fx works. Then merge Thunderbird which works too.

I don't really understand that behaviour , but Fx provoking that mess is IMHO disturbing. But it's probably my options that are the cause; nobody else reported such a problem. That why I give here the output of emerge --info :

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11
Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2500+
dev-lang/python: 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.15
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de ... nux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/down ... oo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linu ... ons/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linu ... ons/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/di ... ons/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww mad matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nsplugins nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Sorry for the length and for the mess in french.
Thanks for reading.

Val

[MrPixel]

@lump & phrozen77: I had a similar problem once ...

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emerge --oneshot xfce4-desktop

fixed it. At least I think it was xfce4-desktop ...

[lump]

Thanks for the info MrPixel. Your suggestion didn't fix the problem, but it pointed me looking in the right direction. I found the answer I was looking for in this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-40 ... skbar.html

[Hydonsingore]

Another question about FF 1.5:
How can I start FF with another profile when FF is already running?
In FF-1.0.7 it's $firefox -P [profile_name] ,
but in FF-1.5 this only open a new window using the running profile.
$firefox -ProfileManager does not work when a firefox process exists, either.

[irondog]

Firefox' performance is bad. Has anyone tried loading heavy pages with big images? Try scrolling, or resizeing fonts. Bleh!!

I'm not so happy with crappy cairo either. It seems te be the cause of the performace problems. While "hello world programs" are broken (in terms of performance) some people try to build complete toolkits and browsers with it already.

[ianwilder]

if anyone is having the problem shown here:
http://www.danielmall.com/archives/2005 ... r_beta.php

the "elephantitis" and red carat (which i had)

this fixed it for me:

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emerge -C mozilla-firefox
rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox
emerge mozilla-firefox

obviously, if you're 64bit, that lib would be lib64.

it apparently had nothing to do with my .mozilla/firefox stuff at all.

[barnaby]

Please take a look at

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299372

[PeterH]

Firefox' performance is bad. Has anyone tried loading heavy pages with big images? Try scrolling, or resizeing fonts. Bleh!!

I'm not so happy with crappy cairo either. It seems te be the cause of the performace problems. While "hello world programs" are broken (in terms of performance) some people try to build complete toolkits and browsers with it already.

I see this as well. How does the gentoo build differ from the official mozilla build? Because the binary version performs just fine.
I'm going to try building with some different use flags.

[wuno]

if anyone is having the problem shown here:
http://www.danielmall.com/archives/2005 ... r_beta.php

the "elephantitis" and red carat (which i had)

this fixed it for me:

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emerge -C mozilla-firefox
rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox
emerge mozilla-firefox

obviously, if you're 64bit, that lib would be lib64.

it apparently had nothing to do with my .mozilla/firefox stuff at all.

Yes removing the whole mozilla-firefox directory solves this problem for me too, neither did removing xpti.dat and compreg.dat from both the firefox dir and the profiles dir, in these cases the "elephant" ignored to move out of the way .
Brings me up to a question to Anarchy, if you could imagine if it makes sense to remove in a preinst section in the ebuild the entire old installation (not the profile!) like in the mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.ebuild? Could also save a lot of problems for those upgrading from 1.0.x.

[PeterH]

Firefox' performance is bad. Has anyone tried loading heavy pages with big images? Try scrolling, or resizeing fonts. Bleh!!

I'm not so happy with crappy cairo either. It seems te be the cause of the performace problems. While "hello world programs" are broken (in terms of performance) some people try to build complete toolkits and browsers with it already.

I see this as well. How does the gentoo build differ from the official mozilla build? Because the binary version performs just fine.
I'm going to try building with some different use flags.

For me, this seems to be due to pango. Try running, MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox
or export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 before running firefox.

[Anarchy]

As many know we removed enigmail from thunderbird sometime back. As of yesterday I split the eclass (mozconfig-2) into two eclasses, mozcoreconf.eclass and mozconfig-2.elcass. This allow me to bring back enigmail to a working state in 1.5 thunderbird. If you have questions or suggestions email me, I have very little times for forums right now. Wuno if you could email me with any questions or suggestions people are having. Wuno can tell ya I will work with most users to improve firefox/thunderbird ebuilds as long as they are reasonable and well thought out. To clearify mozilla-firefox should automatically be removed before install is done in ebuild to prevent any junk from being left behind if it is failing let me know and we will work on it. Feel free to shoot me an email with any questions anarchy@gentoo.org and I will respond to them just as soon as possible.

[enrique]

why, ffs, does it override my cursor settings? those shiny blueglass-xcursors work in every other program, just when i move the cursor into the firefox window, it disappears and reverts to the standart cursor... moving it out it is blueglass-xcursors again...

This all happens for me in both 1.0.7 and 1.5

Hm, with mozilla-firefox-bin (contain offcial branding) running in a 32bit chroot I get the correct cursors, but if move the cursor over to my 64bit compiled firefox, it switches to the standart ugly X cursor... weird

[Havin_it]

I have a question: how does SVG display work in Firefox 1.5? When I click a link to a .svg file, Firefox doesn't know what to do with it: it pops the download/open dialog. I've tried setting it to open the file with /usr/bin/firefox or /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin - when I do this, the result is a loop of new windows opening. I use 1.5 on Windows too, and there linked .svg files open directly in the browser. What am I doing wrong?

FYI, I enabled svg (and canvas) with this line in /etc/portage/package.use:

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www-client/mozilla-firefox canvas mozsvg

I use an overlay for firefox so I can enable branding. In other words, I just add this line to the ebuild:

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mozconfig_annotate '' --enable-official-branding

I can't think of any other 'unusual' things about my install - it strikes me more as a misconfiguration issue. Can anyone advise?

[Silenzium]

Why is it that firefox could be named firefox in 1.0.x but with 1.5 you would need to enable branding to get the correct name?

The start page says welcome to alpha 2! wtf?

Ask Asa Dotzler

Now I have reproduced the problem with the slow firefox (it's not only firefox, but epiphany also) or it has the same symptoms.
it works as expected on gnome, but xfce4 shows them up and probably kde also. it seems that there is a change in the
ls .gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/
there are kbd, kbd.sysbackup, xkb and xkb.sysbackup keys or dirs (it's a matter of naming). now if I delete them gnome recover only the xkb pair (I think ::)) and the other one is missing. When this keys are missing, firefox and epi, begin to missbehave and are very slow in xfce4, but are ok in gnome. I could not say that this is the bug, that you are experiencing or if this will resolve your problems, but it is worth trying. it could have sth to do with modular xorg, or the new gnome.
practically there is no difference between them:

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[..]

for example, so you could copy them around:) hope this helps

I'm using XFCE4, but I don't have this file, because I don't use Gnome.

Firefox 1.5(-r1) is extremely slow, the binary is pretty fast, but I prefer using the compiled version, because the binary crashes sometimes when saving files and often when I use drag 'n' drop.
Any advice?

[orygun_dux]

Uhh, so when does this go 'stable'.

This used to be a unbloated browser without reliance on unstable packages.