Firefox 3 [layman -a mozilla]

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rmh3093 · Post by **rmh3093** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:35 pm

i would not recommend using firefox3 from the mozilla overlay.... xulrunner in now in portage and firefox2 (the latest in portage) is basically the same as firefox3.... notice that you can go to local.live.com with firefox 2.0.0.1..... too many packages needed gecko =2 which is probably why they got rid of firefox3 ebuilds

Insanity5902 · Post by **Insanity5902** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:06 pm

Does anybody have the bzip2 of patches anarchy released for firefox3?

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:39 pm

How would I achieve backward compatability for all these programs depending on FF2's version of gecko?

unK · Post by **unK** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:09 pm

Build Firefox without xulrunner and emerge xulrunner-1.8*.

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:52 pm

thanks, I'll try that

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:36 am

vlc now requires =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2* to be installed because of the nsplugin useflag. I solved this by adding www-client/mozilla-firefox-2 to my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. You could also install firefox with USE="-nsplugin" or with USE="seamonkey" to solve this problem. I don't know wether this is a bug or not so I won't file a bugreport.

deno · Post by **deno** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:46 pm

Hi something wants to downgrade firefox to 2.0.0.12 version. It is not vlc I don't have it. If I do 'emerge -pv mozilla-firefox' everything seems fine, but when I run 'emerge -puvDN world' :

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.30 77 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.13 52 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3 [1.1.2] USE="-debug" 215 kB
[ebuild U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta4-r1 [1.9_beta4] USE="dbus -debug -glitz% -gnome -ipv6 -java -startup-notification (-offline%) (-python%*)" 0 kB [1]
[ebuild UD] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12 [3.0_beta4-r1] USE="java -bindist -debug -filepicker% -gnome -iceweasel% -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango -restrict-javascript -xforms% -xinerama% -xprint% (-dbus%*) (-startup-notification%) (-xulrunner%*)" LINGUAS="de -af% -ar -be -bg% -ca -cs -da% -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku% -lt -mk -mn% -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn% -nn_NO% -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl% -sv -sv_SE -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW (-sq%)" 36,746 kB [1=>0]
[ebuild UD] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.9.7 [6.3.9.8] USE="X djvu jpeg perl png svg tiff truetype xml zlib -bzip2 -doc -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -jbig -jpeg2k -lcms -nocxx -openexr -q32 -q8 -wmf" 8,626 kB

Total: 6 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 2 new), Size of downloads: 45,714 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
[0] /usr/local/portage
[1] /usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla

equery d mozilla-firefox gives me

[ Searching for packages depending on mozilla-firefox... ]
dev-java/swt-3.3.1.1 (firefox & !xulrunner? >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2)
dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-r1 (!xulrunner & firefox? =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*)

as direct dependencies.

deno · Post by **deno** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:50 pm

Ok, it is because of gnome-python-extras.

Kollin · Post by **Kollin** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:50 pm

Konqueror passes it (amd64)

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:59 pm

Kollin wrote:Konqueror passes it (amd64)

What? Acid2? FF3 does too.

Acid3 is interesting. 68 With FF3 beta4, 93 for Midori with WebKit r31114.
Konqueror3 only gets 41 here and almost crashes.

ColdWind · Post by **ColdWind** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:30 pm

Rumil wrote:Would it be possible to make it slotted so that you could have both ff-2.0 and ff3.0alfa installed?

There's an ugly trick: install mozilla-firefox-2.0 and mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0alpha.

unK · Post by **unK** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:56 pm

Or mozilla-firefox-2.* and Minefield (Firefox live), it is installed to /usr/lib/minefield, so won't interfere with firefox.

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:16 pm

I finally put a modified ebuild of VLC into my overlay because having FF3 installed while FF2 being in package.provided made some problems. Why does VLC depend on FF2 but not on FF in general? does the plugin not work in FF3?

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:03 pm

MalleRIM wrote:I finally put a modified ebuild of VLC into my overlay because having FF3 installed while FF2 being in package.provided made some problems. Why does VLC depend on FF2 but not on FF in general? does the plugin not work in FF3?

It does work in FF3, but doesn't compile against it. At least last time I checked. But that was just a test, as I use mplayerplug-in.
FF3 with -xulrunner + xulrunner-1.8* does the trick here. Almost anything that needs mozilla can be compiled against xulrunner too.
VLC too!

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:48 pm

Ok, I'm compiling against xulrunner anyway. But I will be trying to compile apps that need xulrunner or FF against FF3.

RMX · Post by **RMX** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:18 pm

Anyone tried to compile beta 4 on amd64? I have renamed the beta2 ebuild from mozilla overlay to beta 4, looks like everything compiles good, but there's many issues. The URL bar isn't working normally (I can enter URL and browse, but when I enter for example forums.gentoo.org, it stays forums.gentoo.org, not http://forums.gentoo.org, and when I open a new tab, it's blank, but URL is still forums.gentoo.org), forward/back buttons aren't working, bookmarks are empty, I can't add anything in it and so on. I tried deleting ~/.mozilla, but I still get same problems. I have official 32 bit binary too, it works great.
Ok, I've browsed the forum and found out that I needed to update sqlite. So I did that and w00t, everything runs great!

armin76 · Post by **armin76** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:21 pm

And the reason for using your own made beta4 ebuild and not the one in the overlay is...?

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:37 pm

gimpel wrote:
MalleRIM wrote:I finally put a modified ebuild of VLC into my overlay because having FF3 installed while FF2 being in package.provided made some problems. Why does VLC depend on FF2 but not on FF in general? does the plugin not work in FF3?
It does work in FF3, but doesn't compile against it. At least last time I checked. But that was just a test, as I use mplayerplug-in.
FF3 with -xulrunner + xulrunner-1.8* does the trick here. Almost anything that needs mozilla can be compiled against xulrunner too.
VLC too!

ah, VLC 0.8x can't be compiled against xulrunner, 0.9 alpha can be. I'm compiling it now without any issues about dependencies.

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:58 pm

MalleRIM wrote:ah, VLC 0.8x can't be compiled against xulrunner, 0.9 alpha can be. I'm compiling it now without any issues about dependencies.

Yeah right, sorry. I'm using a live GIT ebuild, haven't used 0.8 for over a year already.

RMX · Post by **RMX** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:18 pm

armin76 wrote:And the reason for using your own made beta4 ebuild and not the one in the overlay is...?

Because there was only beta 2 ebuild in the overlay when I checked out.

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:15 pm

RMX wrote:
armin76 wrote:And the reason for using your own made beta4 ebuild and not the one in the overlay is...?
Because there was only beta 2 ebuild in the overlay when I checked out.

A layman -s mozilla or a svn up does wonders in those cases

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:16 pm

vlc-0.8.6e does compile against xulrunner! i just had to modify the ebuild. I used the 0.9 alpha ebuild and copied over the parts that involved Firefox or xulrunner. I will test VLC a little and then file a bug report.

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:41 pm

the bug report (+ebuild)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214550

MalleRIM · Post by **MalleRIM** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:36 pm

Firefox3 beta5 is now in portage

Diverse · Post by **Diverse** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:12 pm

It is strange, but it is a lot slower (in usage) than beta 3. Does anybody know how to fix it? I hope it is slower only on my desktop.