mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_rc1 hard masked now? wtf?

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alienvenom · Post by **alienvenom** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:20 pm

When did this happen and why? There's no bug about it either...

Phoenix591 · Post by **Phoenix591** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:15 pm

for one reason that I have experianced, it doesn't find the 32 bit java plugin (on amd64) , and also, the non -bin version of 3.0-rc1 is also hard masked (and has been) , oh, and firefox 3.0-rc1 looks worse than firefox 2.0 on KDE (if only firefox was QT....)

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:36 pm

portage/profiles/package.mask wrote:# Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> (8 Apr 2008)
# Masked for testing
>=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta4
>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0_beta4
>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_beta1

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:39 pm

g2g591 wrote:oh, and firefox 3.0-rc1 looks worse than firefox 2.0 on KDE

I don't agree. With (gtk-engines-)qtcurve it looks decent.

g2g591 wrote:(if only firefox was QT....)

Enter arora.

Phoenix591 · Post by **Phoenix591** » Wed May 21, 2008 6:18 pm

Actually I was thinking of using qt designer to make something simaler, but, I can't live for long without my nsplugins.

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:52 pm

If you'd be so adventurous as to use qt-4.5 trunk, you can use nsplugins. See http://arorabrowser.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... opers.html.

Diavolo · Post by **Diavolo** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:22 pm

I have problems with Flash, many pages don't work. Is it a known bug?

marschw · Post by **marschw** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:53 pm

g2g591 wrote:for one reason that I have experianced, it doesn't find the 32 bit java plugin (on amd64) , and also, the non -bin version of 3.0-rc1 is also hard masked (and has been) , oh, and firefox 3.0-rc1 looks worse than firefox 2.0 on KDE (if only firefox was QT....)

In my case, it doesn't even start (the betas did)... it just quickly exits with no output (though it does return 1 instead of 0).

dracozny · Post by **dracozny** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:57 am

there is a workaround so I am not downgrading firefox at this time
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-50 ... ml#5098527

I'll admit its not the desired way to fix it but it works for now

mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_rc1 hard masked now? wtf?

mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_rc1 hard masked now? wtf?

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