No plugins in Firefox 3 Beta 4?

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xenon · Post by **xenon** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:00 pm

I just thought to give FF 3 a try and emerged the latest beta. I know it's masked and I certainly don't expect it to work perfectly, but one thing puzzles me. It it its standard behavior no to load any plugins? I am talking about actual plugins, not Add-Ons/Extensions. The about:plugins page only lists the null fallback plugin, and it's even disabled. Plugins work fine in FF2. Again, I'm just asking whether it's "like that" for now or the error is on my side. Thanks.

wah_wah_69 · Post by **wah_wah_69** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:24 pm

i'm running a binary build from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html and flash works as marvelously as before.

xenon · Post by **xenon** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:48 pm

I just tried that, nothing changed. Strange.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:18 am

Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software.

xenon · Post by **xenon** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:53 am

Not arguing, just asking, but is a masked Firefox ebuild really "unsupported software"?

Henning Rogge · Post by **Henning Rogge** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:48 am

I'm using www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_beta4...

after a deinstalling nspluginwrapper and "emerge -1 netscape-flash" everything was running fine.

Need4Speed · Post by **Need4Speed** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:11 pm

xenon wrote:Not arguing, just asking, but is a masked Firefox ebuild really "unsupported software"?

Yes.

xenon · Post by **xenon** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:09 pm

Fine. I thought such label only applied to software not present in Portage (actually, i think it should be that way).

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:13 pm

xenon wrote:Fine. I thought such label only applied to software not present in Portage (actually, i think it should be that way).

++

termite · Post by **termite** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:07 am

Agreed. Anything in Portage is supposed to be supported, as far as I understand.

Kenji Miyamoto · Post by **Kenji Miyamoto** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:40 pm

Either they took it out, or it wasn't in Portage to begin with:

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# ls /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox
ChangeLog  files  Manifest  metadata.xml  mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11.ebuild  mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12.ebuild

Where would I find an ebuild for a Firefox 3 Beta?

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:54 pm

Kenji Miyamoto wrote:Either they took it out, or it wasn't in Portage to begin with:
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# ls /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox
ChangeLog  files  Manifest  metadata.xml  mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11.ebuild  mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12.ebuild
Where would I find an ebuild for a Firefox 3 Beta?

ask layman

<overlay
type = "svn"
src = "http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/mozilla"
contact = "mozilla@gentoo.org"
status = "official"
name = "mozilla">

<link>
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla
</link>

<description>
New mozilla development that is not yet in tree
</description>

xenon · Post by **xenon** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:19 pm

No overlays, it's mozilla-firefox-bin:

mozilla-firefox-bin # ls
ChangeLog files Manifest metadata.xml mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.12.ebuild mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_beta3.ebuild mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0_beta4.ebuild

RMX · Post by **RMX** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:53 am

But that's binary and some of us (like me) wants to compile it.

xenon · Post by **xenon** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:39 pm

Sure, I usually use source but I wanted to quickly try FF3 and saw it was available as binary. I just pointed out it was not from an overlay but from the official Portage.