%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Firefox Firefox is a stand-alone browser based on the Mozilla codebase. &lfs76_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &firefox-md5sum; Download size: &firefox-size; Estimated disk space required: &firefox-buildsize; Estimated build time: &firefox-time; Firefox Dependencies Required , , , and Recommended , , , , , , and If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes. With Firefox-31.0 and later versions, you must have installed Openssl before Python 2 or the build system will quickly fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from an older version of Firefox), check if /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists. If it does not, reinstall (after installing . The latest version of any currently maintained version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed. Optional , , , (with and at runtime), or (with and at runtime), , , , , , , , Hunspell, and liboauth User Notes: The configuration of Firefox is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the following command: cat > mozconfig << "EOF" # If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-dbus # If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install) # wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out # this line ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi # If you have installed libnotify comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-libnotify # GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player; # to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true" # in about:config. If you do *not* have GStreamer 0.x.y, uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer # or uncomment this line, if you have GStreamer 1.x.y #ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0 # Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies: #ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell #ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio # If you have not installed Yasm then uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --disable-webm # Comment out following options if you have not installed # recommended dependencies: ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite ac_add_options --with-system-libevent ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx ac_add_options --with-system-nspr ac_add_options --with-system-nss ac_add_options --with-system-icu # The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line: ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --enable-application=browser ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --enable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-strip ac_add_options --enable-install-strip ac_add_options --enable-gio ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman ac_add_options --with-pthreads ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-png ac_add_options --with-system-zlib mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir EOF There is a problem on i686 systems when building Firefox with gcc versions ranging from 4.8 to 4.9.1 and using the switch --enable-optimize. There are two alternatives. The best one is to upgrade gcc to version 4.9.2 or later because it will give better perfomance and smaller binaries. However, if you do not wish to upgrade gcc, reduce the level of optimization with: test $(uname -m) = "i686" && sed -i 's/enable-optimize/&=-O2/' mozconfig || true Compile Firefox by issuing the following commands: If you are compiling Firefox in chroot, make sure you have $SHELL environment variable set or prepend SHELL=/bin/sh. MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS='-j<number>' \ make -f client.mk where <number> is a integer between 1 and the number of threads of your processor, inclusive. The variable MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS governs the number of parallel processes used by make. If it is not defined, the compilation will use all threads of a multithread machine. If this is what you want, just delete the line with MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS in the command above. This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS='-j<number>' \ make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= && mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins && ln -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser Here, the same comments about MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS, after the compile command above, apply. make -f client.mk ...: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and setup parameters. make -C firefox-build-dir install: This runs make install in firefox-build-dir. ln -sfv ... /usr/bin/firefox: This puts a symbolic link to the firefox executable in your PATH variable. mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: This checks that /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins exists. ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser: This command creates a symbolic link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. It's not really needed, as Firefox checks /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by default, but the symbolic link is made to keep all the plugins installed in one folder. If you deleted the --disable-webm option from your mozconfig, your Firefox can play most YouTube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To enable this, go to and click on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled). If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE you may like to create a firefox.desktop file so that Firefox appears in the panel's menus. If you didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the root user: mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications && mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps && cat > /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop << "EOF" && [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Firefox Web Browser Comment=Browse the World Wide Web GenericName=Web Browser Exec=firefox %u Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=firefox Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; StartupNotify=true EOF ln -sfv /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser/icons/mozicon128.png \ /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory firefox Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; Short Descriptions firefox is a GTK+ 2 internet browser that uses the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. firefox