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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;esr/source/firefox-&firefox-version;esr.source.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "93fb7e0baa3e99209e870f7c032ca513">
10 <!ENTITY firefox-size "482 MB">
11
12 <!-- NB with stylo, much of the build uses rust, and therefore cargo files.
13 But the extra cached cargo files, if any, seem to be minimal -->
14 <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "6.3 GB (209 MB installed) without tests">
15 <!-- editors: with ff63 and rust-1.29, ./mach build -j4 is probably the
16 most practical way to get a timing on a machine with more cores, if taking
17 cores offline is not practical. If in doubt, round up -->
18 <!ENTITY firefox-time "14.0 SBU using -j8, without tests">
19]>
20
21<sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
22 <?dbhtml filename="firefox.html" ?>
23
24
25<!-- indicate this is the ESR variant,
26 The point is that the stable release differs slightly.
27 <title>Firefox-&firefox-version;</title>-->
28 <title>Firefox-&firefox-version;esr</title>
29
30 <indexterm zone="firefox">
31 <primary sortas="a-Firefox">Firefox</primary>
32 </indexterm>
33
34 <sect2 role="package">
35 <title>Introduction to Firefox</title>
36
37 <para>
38 <application>Firefox</application> is a stand-alone browser based on the
39 <application>Mozilla</application> codebase.
40 </para>
41
42 &lfs120_checked;
43
44 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
45 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
46 <listitem>
47 <para>
48 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&firefox-download-http;"/>
49 </para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&firefox-download-ftp;"/>
54 </para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 Download MD5 sum: &firefox-md5sum;
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 Download size: &firefox-size;
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 Estimated disk space required: &firefox-buildsize;
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>
73 Estimated build time: &firefox-time;
74 </para>
75 </listitem>
76 </itemizedlist>
77
78<!--<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
79 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
80 <listitem>
81 <para>
82 Required patch:
83 <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-consolidated-1.patch"/>
84 </para>
85 </listitem>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>
88 Required patch for new <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> API:
89 <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-ffmpeg_6-1.patch"/>
90 </para>
91 </listitem>
92 </itemizedlist>-->
93
94 <note>
95 <para>
96 The directory name is firefox-&firefox-version;
97 </para>
98
99 <para>
100 Extracting the tarball
101 will reset the permissions of the current directory to 0755 if you
102 have permission to do that. If you do this in a directory where
103 the sticky bit is set, such
104 as <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> it will end with error
105 messages:
106 </para>
107
108<literallayout>tar: .: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
109tar: .: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-t: Operation not permitted
110tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
111</literallayout>
112
113 <para>
114 This does finish with non-zero status, but it does
115 <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> mean there is a real problem.
116 Do not untar as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user
117 in a directory where the sticky bit is set - that will unset it.
118 </para>
119
120 <para>
121 As with other large packages which use C++ (or rust), the SBU times
122 to build this vary more widely than you might expect. The build times
123 will increase significantly if your machine has to swap.
124 </para>
125
126 <para>
127 Although upstream prefer to use <application>PulseAudio</application>,
128 for the moment <application>Alsa</application> can still be used. Both
129 may need runtime configuration to get sound working.
130 </para>
131 </note>
132
133 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Firefox Dependencies</bridgehead>
134
135 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
136 <para role="required">
137 <xref linkend="cbindgen"/>,
138 <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
139 <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
140 <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
141 <xref linkend="llvm"/> (with clang, used for bindgen even if using gcc),
142 <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
143 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>
144 (or
145 <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> if you edit the mozconfig;
146 now deprecated by mozilla), in either case please read the
147 Configuration Information,
148 <xref linkend="python3"/> (rebuilt after installing <xref linkend="sqlite"/>),
149 <xref linkend="six"/>,
150 <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, and
151 <xref linkend="unzip"/>
152 </para>
153
154 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
155 <para role="recommended">
156 <xref linkend="icu"/>,
157 <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
158 <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
159 <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
160 <xref linkend="nasm"/>, and
161 <xref linkend="nss"/>
162 </para>
163
164 <note>
165 <para>
166 If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of
167 those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can
168 be out of date or contain security holes.
169 </para>
170 </note>
171
172 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
173 <para role="optional">
174 <xref linkend="curl"/>,
175 <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
176 <xref role="runtime" linkend="ffmpeg"/> (runtime, to play mov, mp3 or mp4 files),
177 <xref linkend="liboauth"/>,
178 <xref role="runtime" linkend="pciutils"/> (runtime),
179 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
180 <xref linkend="wget"/>,
181 <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
182 <xref linkend="yasm"/>,
183 <ulink url="https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy">libproxy</ulink>
184 </para>
185
186 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
187 Editor Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/firefox"/>
188 </para>
189 </sect2>
190
191 <sect2 role="installation">
192 <title>Installation of Firefox</title>
193
194 <para>
195 The building system ships several internal copies of the Python 3
196 modules <application>setuptools</application> and
197 <filename>six.py</filename>. The shipped copies are too old
198 to work well with Python 3.12 or later. Replace them with the
199 symlinks to the LFS <application>setuptools</application> package and
200 <xref linkend='six'/> already installed on the system, and adapt the
201 building system for these updated Python modules. We also need to
202 rewrite the code based on the <filename>imp</filename> module removed
203 in Python 3.12 and later using the <filename>importlib</filename>
204 module:
205 </para>
206
207<screen><userinput>(for i in $(find -name six.py); do
208 ln -sfv /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/site-packages/six.py $i
209 [ $? = 0 ] || exit $?
210 done) &amp;&amp;
211
212sed '/ConfigParser/s/Safe//' \
213 -i testing/mozbase/mozprofile/mozprofile/prefs.py &amp;&amp;
214
215(for i in setuptools distutils-precedence.pth \
216 pkg_resources _distutils_hack; do
217 rm -rf third_party/python/setuptools/$i &amp;&amp;
218 ln -sv /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/site-packages/$i \
219 third_party/python/setuptools
220 [ $? = 0 ] || exit $?
221 done) &amp;&amp;
222
223sed 's/distutils/setuptools._&amp;/' \
224 -i python/mozbuild/mozbuild/nodeutil.py &amp;&amp;
225
226sed -e '/^import/s/imp$/importlib.util/' \
227 -e 's/imp.new_module/__import__/' \
228 -e "s/imp.load_source\(.*\)/spec = \
229 importlib.util.spec_from_file_location\1; \
230 mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec); \
231 spec.loader.exec_module(mod)/" -i python/mach/mach/main.py &amp;&amp;
232sed '/import imp/d' -i netwerk/dns/prepare_tlds.py
233</userinput></screen>
234
235 <!-- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1859752
236 https://hg.mozilla.org/try/rev/d5f3b0c4f08a -->
237 <para>
238 If building with system ICU, adapt the line break mapping for ICU
239 74 or later:
240 </para>
241
242<screen><userinput>(for i in {43..47}; do
243 sed '/ZWJ/s/}/,CLASS_CHARACTER&amp;/' -i intl/lwbrk/LineBreaker.cpp || exit $?
244 done)</userinput></screen>
245
246 <para>
247 The configuration of <application>Firefox</application> is accomplished
248 by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing the desired
249 configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename> is
250 created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
251 (and an abbreviated description of some of them), issue <command>./mach
252 configure -- --help | less</command>. You may also
253 wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired options.
254 Create the file by issuing the following command:
255 </para>
256
257<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
258<literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
259
260# If you have installed (or will install) wireless-tools, and you wish
261# to use geolocation web services, comment out this line
262ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
263
264# API Keys for geolocation APIs - necko-wifi (above) is required for MLS
265# Uncomment the following line if you wish to use Mozilla Location Service
266#ac_add_options --with-mozilla-api-keyfile=$PWD/mozilla-key
267
268# Uncomment the following line if you wish to use Google's geolocation API
269# (needed for use with saved maps with Google Maps)
270#ac_add_options --with-google-location-service-api-keyfile=$PWD/google-key
271
272# startup-notification is required since firefox-78
273
274# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio and
275# want to use alsa instead
276#ac_add_options --enable-audio-backends=alsa
277
278# Comment out following options if you have not installed
279# recommended dependencies:
280ac_add_options --with-system-icu
281ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
282ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
283ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
284ac_add_options --with-system-nss
285ac_add_options --with-system-webp
286
287# Unlike with thunderbird, although using the gold linker can
288# save four megabytes in the installed file it does not make
289# the build faster.
290
291# The libdav1d library (av1 decoder) requires nasm. Uncomment this
292# if nasm has not been installed. Do not uncomment this if you have
293# ffmpeg installed.
294#ac_add_options --disable-av1
295
296# You cannot distribute the binary if you do this.
297ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
298
299# Stripping is now enabled by default.
300# Uncomment these lines if you need to run a debugger:
301#ac_add_options --disable-strip
302#ac_add_options --disable-install-strip
303
304# Disabling debug symbols makes the build much smaller and a little
305# faster. Comment this if you need to run a debugger. Note: This is
306# required for compilation on i686.
307ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
308<!-- With Firefox ESR 128 we'd replace the following part with
309"- -enable-elf-hack=relr", or remove it if relr becomes the default. -->
310# The elf-hack is reported to cause failed installs (after successful builds)
311# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
312# libxul.so by a few MB. With recent Binutils releases the linker already
313# supports a much safer and generic way for this.
314ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
315export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
316
317# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
318ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
319ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
320ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
321ac_add_options --disable-updater
322
323# Enabling the tests will use a lot more space and significantly
324# increase the build time, for no obvious benefit.
325ac_add_options --disable-tests
326
327# This enables SIMD optimization in the shipped encoding_rs crate.
328ac_add_options --enable-rust-simd
329
330ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
331ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
332
333ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
334ac_add_options --with-system-png
335ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
336
337# Sandboxing works well on x86_64 but might cause issues on other
338# platforms. If not on x86_64, e.g. i686, it is recommended to
339# uncomment the following switch.
340#ac_add_options --disable-sandbox
341
342# Using sandboxed wasm libraries has been moved to all builds instead
343# of only mozilla automation builds. It requires extra llvm packages
344# and was reported to seriously slow the build. Disable it.
345ac_add_options --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries
346
347# The following option unsets Telemetry Reporting. With the Addons Fiasco,
348# Mozilla was found to be collecting user's data, including saved passwords and
349# web form data, without users consent. Mozilla was also found shipping updates
350# to systems without the user's knowledge or permission.
351# As a result of this, use the following command to permanently disable
352# telemetry reporting in Firefox.
353unset MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING
354
355mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir</literal>
356EOF</userinput></screen>
357
358 <para>
359 Compile <application>Firefox</application> by issuing the following
360 commands:
361 </para>
362<!-- Not needed with clang. Upstream bug at
363 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1729459
364
365 <para>
366 If building on a 32 bit machine, the following sed works around
367 an issue with an incompatible <quote>double</quote> type in one
368 header file:
369 </para>
370
371<screen><userinput>case "$(uname -m)" in
372 i?86) sed -e '/typedef[ ]*double/s/double/long double/' \
373 -i modules/fdlibm/src/math_private.h ;;
374esac</userinput></screen>
375-->
376 <para>
377 If the geolocation APIs are needed:
378 </para>
379
380 <note>
381 <para>
382 <!-- Taken from Arch Linux - an immensely helpful link - Thanks -->
383 The Google and Mozilla API Keys below are specific to LFS. If using
384 these instructions for another distro, or if you intend to distribute
385 binary copies of the software using these instructions, please obtain
386 your own keys following the instructions located at
387 <ulink url="https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys"/> and
388 <ulink url="https://location.services.mozilla.com/api"/> respectively.
389 <!-- BLFS Devs, register an account at Google with your
390 @linuxfromscratch.org email address, and I'll make you an administrator
391 for the 'Google APIs for LFS' project (where the API and OAuth keys
392 were created for use in the book).-->
393 </para>
394 </note>
395
396<screen><userinput>echo "AIzaSyDxKL42zsPjbke5O8_rPVpVrLrJ8aeE9rQ" > google-key
397echo "613364a7-9418-4c86-bcee-57e32fd70c23" > mozilla-key</userinput></screen>
398
399 <note>
400
401 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
402 href="../../xincludes/mozshm.xml"/>
403
404 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
405 href="../../xincludes/mozmach.xml"/>
406
407 </note>
408
409<!--<para>
410 Fix building Firefox with Clang 16 or C++ headers from GCC 13.
411 And, work around a build failure with Rustc-1.70.0:
412 </para>
413
414<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../firefox-&firefox-version;-consolidated-1.patch</userinput></screen>
415
416 <para>
417 Apply the following patch so that firefox is able to play H.264 videos:
418 </para>
419
420<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../firefox-&firefox-version;-ffmpeg_6-1.patch</userinput></screen>-->
421
422 <para>
423 Now invoke the Python <command>mach</command> script to compile the package.
424 </para>
425
426<screen><userinput>export MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none &amp;&amp;
427export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=${PWD}/mozbuild &amp;&amp;
428./mach configure &amp;&amp;
429./mach build</userinput></screen>
430
431 <para>
432 The <filename>mozconfig</filename> above disables the tests because
433 they use a lot more time and disk space for no obvious benefit. If
434 you have nevertheless enabled them, you can run the tests by executing
435 <command>./mach gtest</command>. This will require a network connection,
436 and to be run from within an Xorg session - there is a popup dialog
437 when it fails to connect to ALSA (that does not create a failed test).
438 One or two tests will fail. To see the details of the failure(s) you
439 will need to log the output from that command so that you can review it.
440 </para>
441
442 <para>
443 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
444 </para>
445
446<screen role="root"><userinput>MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none ./mach install</userinput></screen>
447
448 <para>
449 Empty the environment variables which were set above:
450 </para>
451
452<screen><userinput>unset MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH</userinput></screen>
453
454 </sect2>
455
456 <sect2 role="commands">
457 <title>Command Explanations</title>
458
459<!--<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
460 href="../../xincludes/SIOCGSTAMP.xml"/>-->
461
462 <para>
463 <command>export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=${PWD}/mozbuild</command>: The build
464 is now supposed to tell you that it intends to create <filename
465 class="directory">~/.mozbuild</filename>, and offer you an option to
466 press &lt;ENTER&gt; to accept this, or Ctrl-C to cancel and restart the
467 build after specifying the directory. In practice, the message may not
468 appear until after &lt;ENTER&gt; is keyed, i.e. the build stalls.
469 </para>
470
471 <para>
472 That directory is used for a (probably random) telemetry identifier.
473 Creating this in the build directory, and deleting that after the
474 installation, prevents it being used. If you wish to participate in
475 telemetry, export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH to point to its default directory
476 and remove the entry from the <filename>mozconfig</filename>.
477 </para>
478
479 <para>
480 <command>MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none</command>: Use the
481 system python to create a virtual environment for <command>mach</command>
482 without downloading any python wheels nor using the system python modules.
483 This prevents version mismatches between system modules and bundled ones.
484 </para>
485
486 <para>
487 <command>./mach configure</command>: This validates the supplied
488 dependencies and the <filename>mozconfig</filename>.
489 </para>
490
491 <para>
492 <option>./mach build --verbose</option>: Use this alternative if you
493 need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or
494 C++ flags being used. But do not add '--verbose' to the install command
495 since it is not accepted there.
496 </para>
497
498 <para>
499 <option>./mach build -jN</option>: The build should, by default, use
500 all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores causes the build to swap
501 because you have insufficient memory, using fewer cores can be faster.
502 </para>
503
504 <para>
505 <option><envar>CC=gcc CXX=g++</envar></option>: BLFS used to
506 prefer to use gcc and g++ instead of upstream's defaults of the
507 <application>clang</application> programs. With the release of
508 gcc-12 the build takes longer with gcc and g++, primarily because
509 of extra warnings, and is bigger. Set these environment variables
510 <emphasis>before you run the configure script</emphasis>
511 if you wish to continue to use gcc, g++. Building
512 with GCC on i?86 is currently broken.
513 </para>
514
515 </sect2>
516
517 <sect2 role="configuration">
518 <title>Configuring Firefox</title>
519
520 <para>
521 If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application> or
522 <application>KDE</application> you may want to create a
523 <filename>firefox.desktop</filename> file so that
524 <application>Firefox</application> appears in the panel's menus.
525 As the &root; user:
526 </para>
527
528<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &amp;&amp;
529mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps &amp;&amp;
530
531MIMETYPE="text/xml;text/mml;text/html;" &amp;&amp;
532MIMETYPE+="application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;" &amp;&amp;
533MIMETYPE+="x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https" &amp;&amp;
534
535cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop &lt;&lt; EOF &amp;&amp;
536<literal>[Desktop Entry]
537Encoding=UTF-8
538Name=Firefox Web Browser
539Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
540GenericName=Web Browser
541Exec=firefox %u
542Terminal=false
543Type=Application
544Icon=firefox
545Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
546MimeType=$MIMETYPE
547StartupNotify=true</literal>
548EOF
549
550unset MIMETYPE &amp;&amp;
551
552ln -sfv /usr/lib/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png \
553 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png</userinput></screen>
554
555 <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
556
557 <para>
558 The application settings for firefox are accessible by keying
559 <command>about:config</command> in the address bar.
560 </para>
561
562 <para>
563 Occasionally, getting working sound in
564 <application>firefox</application> can be a problem. Although upstream
565 prefers pulseaudio,
566 on balance using <application>Alsa</application> may be easier.
567 </para>
568
569 <para>
570 If you enabled <application>Alsa</application> for sound, you may need
571 to alter one variable to get working sound. If you run
572 <command>firefox</command> from a terminal and try to play something
573 with sound you might encounter error messages like:
574 </para>
575
576 <para>
577 <literal>Sandbox: seccomp sandbox violation: pid 3941, tid 4030,
578 syscall 16, args 48 2147767296 139909894784796 0 0 0.</literal>
579 </para>
580
581 <para>
582 That was on x86_64, on i686 the syscall number is 54. To allow this
583 syscall, in <command>about:config</command> change
584 <command>security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist</command> to 16
585 (or 54 if using i686).
586 </para>
587
588 <para>
589 If you use <command>pulseaudio</command> in a Desktop Environment, it
590 might already be started by that DE. But if it is not, although
591 firefox-57 managed to start it, firefox-58 did not. If you run
592 <command>firefox</command> from a terminal and this problem is present,
593 trying to play sound will
594 encounter error messages warning <literal>Can't get cubeb
595 context!</literal>
596 </para>
597
598 <para>
599 The fix for this is to close firefox, start pulseaudio to check it
600 does start (if not, read the information on Configuring in <xref
601 linkend="pulseaudio"/>) and restart firefox to check it is working.
602 If it now works, add the following to your <filename>~/.xinitrc</filename>:
603<phrase revision="sysv">
604<literal>pulseaudio --verbose --log-target=syslog&amp;</literal></phrase>
605<phrase revision="systemd">
606<literal>pulseaudio --verbose --log-target=journald&amp;</literal></phrase>
607 (unfortunately, on some systems this does not work).
608 </para>
609
610 <para>
611 You may wish to use multiple profiles within firefox. To do that, invoke
612 firefox as <command>firefox --ProfileManager</command>. You can also
613 check which profile is currently in use from
614 <command>about:profiles</command>.
615 </para>
616
617 <para>
618 Although WebRender (using the GPU for compositing) is not used by
619 default, it now appears to work well on supported hardware (ATI, Nvidia
620 and Intel GPUs with Mesa-18 or later). For an explanation, please see
621 <ulink
622 url="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/">hacks.mozilla.org</ulink>.
623 The only downside seems to be that on a machine with limited RAM it might
624 use more RAM.
625 </para>
626
627 <para>
628 To check if WebRender is being used, look in about:support. In the Graphics
629 section, Compositing will either show 'Basic' (i.e. not in use) or
630 'WebRender'. To enable it, go to about:config and change gfx.webrender.all
631 to True. You will need to restart firefox.
632 </para>
633
634 <para>
635 It may be useful to mention the processes from firefox which can appear in
636 <command>top</command> - as well as firefox itself, there may be multiple
637 Web Content processes, and now an RDD Process (Remote Data Decoder) which
638 appears when playing web videos encoded with av1 (libdav1d). If WebRender
639 has been enabled, a GPU Process will also appear when firefox has to
640 repaint (e.g. scrolling, opening a new tab, or playing a video).
641 </para>
642
643 </sect3>
644 </sect2>
645
646 <sect2 role="content">
647 <title>Contents</title>
648
649 <segmentedlist>
650 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
651 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
652 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
653
654 <seglistitem>
655 <seg>
656 firefox
657 </seg>
658 <seg>
659 Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and
660 helper modules installed in /usr/lib/firefox
661 </seg>
662 <seg>
663 /usr/lib/firefox
664 </seg>
665 </seglistitem>
666 </segmentedlist>
667
668 <variablelist>
669 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
670 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
671 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
672
673 <varlistentry id="firefox-prog">
674 <term><command>firefox</command></term>
675 <listitem>
676 <para>
677 is a <application>GTK+-3</application> internet browser that uses
678 the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine
679 </para>
680 <indexterm zone="firefox firefox-prog">
681 <primary sortas="b-firefox">firefox</primary>
682 </indexterm>
683 </listitem>
684 </varlistentry>
685
686 </variablelist>
687
688 </sect2>
689
690</sect1>
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