[ac38e9dc] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 7 | <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
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| 8 | <!-- 550 Permission denied.
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| 9 | <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp "&mozilla-ftp;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.bz2"> -->
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[7d511f08] | 10 | <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
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[5e94b6c3] | 11 | <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "66d4810df0b5a6095e2276256bf17675">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY firefox-size "174 MB">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "4.4 GB (79 MB installed)">
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| 14 | <!ENTITY firefox-time "10 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
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[ac38e9dc] | 15 | ]>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
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| 18 | <?dbhtml filename="firefox.html" ?>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect1info>
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[3acf108] | 21 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 22 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[ac38e9dc] | 23 | </sect1info>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <title>Firefox-&firefox-version;</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <indexterm zone="firefox">
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| 28 | <primary sortas="a-Firefox">Firefox</primary>
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| 29 | </indexterm>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 32 | <title>Introduction to Firefox</title>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>
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| 35 | <application>Firefox</application> is a stand-alone browser based on the
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| 36 | <application>Mozilla</application> codebase.
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| 37 | </para>
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| 38 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 39 | &lfs78_checked;
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[ac38e9dc] | 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 42 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>
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| 45 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&firefox-download-http;"/>
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| 46 | </para>
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| 47 | </listitem>
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| 48 | <listitem>
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| 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&firefox-download-ftp;"/>
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| 51 | </para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>
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| 55 | Download MD5 sum: &firefox-md5sum;
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| 56 | </para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>
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| 60 | Download size: &firefox-size;
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| 61 | </para>
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| 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 | <listitem>
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| 64 | <para>
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| 65 | Estimated disk space required: &firefox-buildsize;
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| 66 | </para>
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| 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | <listitem>
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| 69 | <para>
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| 70 | Estimated build time: &firefox-time;
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| 71 | </para>
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| 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </itemizedlist>
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| 74 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 75 | <note>
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| 76 | <para>
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| 77 | The tarball <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz</emphasis>
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| 78 | will untar to <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;</emphasis> directory.
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| 79 | </para>
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| 80 | </note>
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| 81 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 82 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Firefox Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <para role="required">
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| 86 | <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
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[5e94b6c3] | 87 | <xref linkend="gtk2"/>
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| 88 | (or <xref linkend="gtk3"/> if you change the mozconfig where indicated),
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| 89 | <xref linkend="nss"/>,
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[ac38e9dc] | 90 | <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
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[5e94b6c3] | 91 | <xref linkend="yasm"/>, and
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[ac38e9dc] | 92 | <xref linkend="zip"/>
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| 93 | </para>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 96 | <para role="recommended">
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| 97 | <xref linkend="icu"/>,
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| 98 | <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
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[5e94b6c3] | 99 | <xref linkend="libvpx"/>, and
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[ac38e9dc] | 100 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
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| 101 | </para>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <note>
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| 104 | <para>
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| 105 | If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of
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| 106 | those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can
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| 107 | be out of date or contain security holes.
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| 108 | </para>
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| 109 | </note>
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| 110 |
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| 111 | <note>
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| 112 | <para>
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[5e94b6c3] | 113 | With <application>Firefox-31.0</application> and later versions, you
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| 114 | must have installed <application>Openssl</application> before
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| 115 | <application>Python 2</application> or the build system will quickly
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[ac38e9dc] | 116 | fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name
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| 117 | HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from
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[5e94b6c3] | 118 | an older version of Firefox), check if
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[ac38e9dc] | 119 | <filename>/usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so</filename>
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[5e94b6c3] | 120 | exists. If it does not, reinstall <xref linkend="python2"/> (after
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| 121 | installing <xref linkend="openssl"/>). The latest version of any
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| 122 | <emphasis>currently maintained</emphasis> version of Openssl should be
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[ac38e9dc] | 123 | satisfactory if already installed.
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| 124 | </para>
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| 125 | </note>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 128 | <para role="optional">
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| 129 | <xref linkend="curl"/>,
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| 130 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
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| 131 | <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
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[5e94b6c3] | 132 | <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
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| 133 | <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> (runtime) or
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[ac38e9dc] | 134 | <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
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| 135 | <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
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| 136 | <xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),
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[5e94b6c3] | 137 | <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
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[ac38e9dc] | 138 | <xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
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| 139 | <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
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| 140 | <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
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[5e94b6c3] | 141 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
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[ac38e9dc] | 142 | <xref linkend="wget"/>,
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| 143 | <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
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[5e94b6c3] | 144 | <ulink url="https://hunspell.github.io/">Hunspell</ulink>,
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| 145 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/liboauth/files/">liboauth</ulink>, and
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| 146 | <ulink url="https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy">libproxy</ulink>, and
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| 147 | <ulink url="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</ulink>
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[ac38e9dc] | 148 | </para>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 151 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/firefox"/>
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| 152 | </para>
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| 153 | </sect2>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 156 | <title>Installation of Firefox</title>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <para>
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[5e94b6c3] | 159 | The configuration of <application>Firefox</application> is accomplished
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| 160 | by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing the desired
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| 161 | configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename> is
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| 162 | created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
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| 163 | (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue <command>./configure
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[ac38e9dc] | 164 | --help</command>. You may also wish to review the entire file and
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[5e94b6c3] | 165 | uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the
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| 166 | following command:
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[ac38e9dc] | 167 | </para>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | <screen><userinput>cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
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| 170 | <literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
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| 171 | # If desired, you can reduce the number of cores used, e.g. to 1, by
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| 172 | # uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
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| 173 | #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
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| 174 |
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| 175 | # If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
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| 176 | ac_add_options --disable-dbus
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| 177 |
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| 178 | # If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
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| 179 | # wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
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| 180 | # this line
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| 181 | ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
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| 182 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 183 | # GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player if
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| 184 | # FFmpeg is not found at runtime;
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| 185 | # to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
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| 186 | # in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
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| 187 | # uncomment the following one:
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| 188 | ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
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[ac38e9dc] | 189 | #ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0
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| 190 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 191 | # Uncomment this option if you wish to build with gtk+-3
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| 192 | #ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3
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| 193 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 194 | # Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
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| 195 | #ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
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| 196 | #ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
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| 197 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 198 | # Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
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| 199 | ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
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| 200 |
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| 201 | # If you have installed GConf, comment out this line
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| 202 | ac_add_options --disable-gconf
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| 203 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 204 | # Comment out following options if you have not installed
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| 205 | # recommended dependencies:
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| 206 | ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
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| 207 | ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
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| 208 | ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
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| 209 | ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
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| 210 | ac_add_options --with-system-nss
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| 211 | ac_add_options --with-system-icu
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| 212 |
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| 213 | # The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
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| 214 | ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
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| 215 | ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
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| 216 |
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| 217 | ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
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| 218 | ac_add_options --disable-updater
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| 219 | ac_add_options --disable-tests
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| 220 |
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| 221 | ac_add_options --enable-optimize
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| 222 | ac_add_options --enable-strip
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| 223 | ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
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| 224 |
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| 225 | ac_add_options --enable-gio
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| 226 | ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
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| 227 | ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
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| 228 | ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier
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| 229 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 230 | # From firefox-40, using system cairo causes firefox to crash
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| 231 | # frequently when it is doing background rendering in a tab.
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| 232 | #ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
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[ac38e9dc] | 233 | ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
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| 234 | ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
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| 235 |
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| 236 | ac_add_options --with-pthreads
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| 237 |
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| 238 | ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
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| 239 | ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
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| 240 | ac_add_options --with-system-png
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| 241 | ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
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| 242 |
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| 243 | mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir</literal>
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| 244 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 245 |
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| 246 | <para>
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| 247 | Compile <application>Firefox</application> by issuing the following
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| 248 | commands:
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| 249 | </para>
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| 250 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 251 | <note><para>
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| 252 | If you are compiling <application>Firefox</application> in chroot, make
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| 253 | sure you have <envar>$SHELL</envar> environment variable set or prepend
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| 254 | <envar>SHELL=/bin/sh</envar>.
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| 255 | </para></note>
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| 256 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 257 | <screen><userinput>make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <para>
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| 260 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 261 | </para>
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| 262 |
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| 263 | <para>
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[5e94b6c3] | 264 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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[ac38e9dc] | 265 | </para>
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| 266 |
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| 267 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &&
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[5e94b6c3] | 268 | chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; &&
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[ac38e9dc] | 269 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 270 | mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &&
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| 271 | ln -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</userinput></screen>
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[ac38e9dc] | 272 |
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| 273 | </sect2>
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| 274 |
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| 275 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 276 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 277 |
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| 278 | <para>
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| 279 | <command>make -f client.mk ...</command>: Mozilla products are packaged to
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| 280 | allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
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| 281 | configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
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| 282 | <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename> file to
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| 283 | get initial configuration and setup parameters.
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| 284 | </para>
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| 285 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 286 | <para>
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| 287 | <command>make -C firefox-build-dir install</command>: This runs
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| 288 | <command>make install</command> in firefox-build-dir.
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| 289 | </para>
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| 290 |
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[ac38e9dc] | 291 | <para>
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[5e94b6c3] | 292 | <command>ln -sfv ... /usr/bin/firefox</command>: This puts a symbolic link
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| 293 | to the <command>firefox</command> executable in your <envar>PATH</envar>
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| 294 | variable.
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| 295 | </para>
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| 296 |
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| 297 | <para>
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| 298 | <command>mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</command>: This checks
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| 299 | that <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>
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| 300 | exists.
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| 301 | </para>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | <para>
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| 304 | <command>ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</command>:
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[ac38e9dc] | 305 | This command creates a symbolic link to <filename
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| 306 | class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>. It's not really
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| 307 | needed, as <application>Firefox</application> checks <filename
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| 308 | class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename> by default, but the
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| 309 | symbolic link is made to keep all the plugins installed in one folder.
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| 310 | </para>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | </sect2>
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| 313 |
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| 314 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 315 | <title>Configuring Firefox</title>
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| 316 |
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| 317 | <para>
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[5e94b6c3] | 318 | If you did not add the <option>--disable-webm</option> option to your
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| 319 | <filename>mozconfig</filename>, your <application>Firefox</application>
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| 320 | can play most YouTube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To
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| 321 | enable this, go to <ulink url="http://www.youtube.com/html5"/> and click
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| 322 | on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled).
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| 323 | </para>
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| 324 |
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| 325 | <para>
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| 326 | If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application> or
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| 327 | <application>KDE</application> you may like to create a
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| 328 | <filename>firefox.desktop</filename> file so that
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| 329 | <application>Firefox</application> appears in the panel's menus. If you
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| 330 | didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig change the
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| 331 | StartupNotify line to false. As the
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| 332 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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[ac38e9dc] | 333 | </para>
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| 334 |
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| 335 | <screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &&
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[5e94b6c3] | 336 | mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps &&
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[ac38e9dc] | 337 |
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[5e94b6c3] | 338 | cat > /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop << "EOF" &&
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[ac38e9dc] | 339 | <literal>[Desktop Entry]
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| 340 | Encoding=UTF-8
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| 341 | Name=Firefox Web Browser
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| 342 | Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
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| 343 | GenericName=Web Browser
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| 344 | Exec=firefox %u
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| 345 | Terminal=false
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| 346 | Type=Application
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| 347 | Icon=firefox
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| 348 | Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
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| 349 | MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
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| 350 | StartupNotify=true</literal>
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[5e94b6c3] | 351 | EOF
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| 352 |
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| 353 | ln -sfv /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser/icons/mozicon128.png \
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| 354 | /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png</userinput></screen>
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[ac38e9dc] | 355 |
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| 356 | </sect2>
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| 357 |
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| 358 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 359 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 360 |
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| 361 | <segmentedlist>
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| 362 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 363 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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[5e94b6c3] | 364 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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[ac38e9dc] | 365 |
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| 366 | <seglistitem>
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| 367 | <seg>
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| 368 | firefox
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| 369 | </seg>
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| 370 | <seg>
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[5e94b6c3] | 371 | Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and
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| 372 | helper modules installed in /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;
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[ac38e9dc] | 373 | </seg>
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| 374 | <seg>
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[5e94b6c3] | 375 | /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;
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[ac38e9dc] | 376 | </seg>
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| 377 | </seglistitem>
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| 378 | </segmentedlist>
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| 379 |
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| 380 | <variablelist>
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| 381 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 382 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 383 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 384 |
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| 385 | <varlistentry id="firefox-prog">
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| 386 | <term><command>firefox</command></term>
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| 387 | <listitem>
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| 388 | <para>
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| 389 | is a <application>GTK+ 2</application> internet browser that uses the
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| 390 | Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
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| 391 | </para>
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| 392 | <indexterm zone="firefox firefox-prog">
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| 393 | <primary sortas="b-firefox">firefox</primary>
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| 394 | </indexterm>
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| 395 | </listitem>
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| 396 | </varlistentry>
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| 397 |
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| 398 | </variablelist>
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| 399 |
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| 400 | </sect2>
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| 401 |
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| 402 | </sect1>
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