[mozilla overlay] Firefox 6,7 and 8

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Loko123 · Post by **Loko123** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:52 pm

Hey guys,

Firefox 6 Beta is available, but there are no ebuilds.

Firefox 7 Aurora is available, but the same as above.

Firefox 8 Nightly is available, but ...

Could you please bump these ebuilds in the mentioned overlay? (mozilla-overlay)

Firefox 8 is going to be awesome on 64 Bit systems, it is fast as hell.

Greetings,

Loko123

dE_logics · Post by **dE_logics** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:20 pm

I think we have a live ebuild which's in one of the overlays.

Loko123 · Post by **Loko123** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:23 pm

dE_logics wrote:I think we have a live ebuild which's in one of the overlays.

Hey,

As far as I can see, there is no live ebuild. See - http://gpo.zugaina.org/www-client/firefox

But a live ebuild of Firefox (Alpha) would be awesome!

Cya,

Loko123

rtomek · Post by **rtomek** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:53 pm

take a look at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-88 ... art-0.html

lkraav · Post by **lkraav** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:14 pm

I was wondering about the same thing for Thundebird 6 beta ebuilds. On OS X I'm already getting TB6 beta 3 today. Anyone we could ask on IRC about this?

dE_logics · Post by **dE_logics** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:55 pm

rtomek wrote:take a look at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-88 ... art-0.html

I was talking about the sardemff77 overlay, however I dont think I can get Firefox >4 there.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:44 pm

Any word on ebulds for 7 or 8?

gendoo · Post by **gendoo** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:33 pm

Anon-E-moose wrote:Any word on ebuilds for 7 or 8?

Writing this from a local firefox 7 beta 1 build, hacked quickly together in local overlay...

Copy firefox-6.0.ebuild to firefox-7.0_beta1.ebuild
Rename
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```
PATCH="${PN}-6.0-patches-0.1"
```
to
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```
PATCH="${PN}-7.0-patches-0.1"
```
(or any other favorite patch file name)
If you desire to use a language pack (also available for beta 1 on Mozilla FTP server), also remove the beta clause in this line
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```
 if ! [[ ${PV} =~ alpha|beta ]]; then 
```
Copy firefox-6.0-patches-0.1.tar.bz2 to firefox-7.0-patches-0.1.tar.bz2, removing patches 5001+5003 which did not apply.

No clean solution, but something for first testing and I still prefer this local build hack to any external binary builds.

First impression of 7.0 beta: Really much improved memory handling.

AFCommando · Post by **AFCommando** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:00 am

gendoo wrote:[*] Copy firefox-6.0-patches-0.1.tar.bz2 to firefox-7.0-patches-0.1.tar.bz2, removing patches 5001+5003 which did not apply.

I had to remove patch 2003 as well to get it to work.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:54 pm

I got 7 to build, but I'm back to running 5.0.

They have changed something in 6 and 7 ( don't know about 8 ) where some sites
I would go to would never display a link when clicked on.
It would say either "connecting" or "transferring data..." and would sit forever.

In looking online it seems that others started having the same problems when they upgraded to 6.
(I happened to have old backups of all the files I needed)

Just a little heads up

Elv13 · Post by **Elv13** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:12 am

The best way to have firefox is to download it from firefox.com and put it in a chmod 666 -R directory
Select your channal (stable, beta or nightly) then let firefox update itself everyday.

The default compilations are -Os with some -O2 flags and it -is- profiled, something even our most aggressive flags can't beat. I gave up on emerge for chromium and firefox and I am happier than I was with the outdated and/or unstable stuff.

Da Fox · Post by **Da Fox** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:07 pm

Elv13 wrote:The best way to have firefox is to download it from firefox.com and put it in a chmod 666 -R directory
Select your channal (stable, beta or nightly) then let firefox update itself everyday.

The default compilations are -Os with some -O2 flags and it -is- profiled, something even our most aggressive flags can't beat. I gave up on emerge for chromium and firefox and I am happier than I was with the outdated and/or unstable stuff.

The firefox-6 ebuild in the mozilla overlay also compiles with profile-guided-optimization, if you set the 'pgo' useflag, so you could have the best of both-worlds (heavy optimizations + pgo).

dweezil-n0xad · Post by **dweezil-n0xad** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:56 am

Elv13 wrote:The best way to have firefox is to download it from firefox.com and put it in a chmod 666 -R directory
Select your channal (stable, beta or nightly) then let firefox update itself everyday.

You can also use Firefox UX if you want to preview some experimental UI features
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org ... latest-ux/

dweezil-n0xad · Post by **dweezil-n0xad** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:55 pm

btw today my firefox updated itself to version 10.0a1
rapid-release schedule

jbouzan · Post by **jbouzan** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:37 am

Elv13 wrote:The best way to have firefox is to download it from firefox.com and put it in a chmod 666 -R directory
Select your channal (stable, beta or nightly) then let firefox update itself everyday.

The default compilations are -Os with some -O2 flags and it -is- profiled, something even our most aggressive flags can't beat. I gave up on emerge for chromium and firefox and I am happier than I was with the outdated and/or unstable stuff.

Could you describe more on how you did this? I tried putting firefox in my home directory, but it somehow started my portage-installed firefox-bin.