source: xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml@ 51ff1579

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY firefox-download-http
     "http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp
  "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "80c3e5927274de7f181fb5f931ac5fd4">
  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "75 MB">
  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "2.8 GB (31 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "24 SBU (or 0.3 SBU if you're building against
    an installed Xulrunner)">
]>

<sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="firefox.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Firefox-&firefox-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="firefox">
    <primary sortas="a-Firefox">Firefox</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Firefox</title>

    <para>
      <application>Firefox</application> is a stand-alone browser based on the
      <application>Mozilla</application> codebase.
    </para>

    &lfs71_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&firefox-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&firefox-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &firefox-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &firefox-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &firefox-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &firefox-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Firefox Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="zip"/> and
      <xref linkend="unzip"/>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Note: <application>libjpeg</application> and
      <application>libpng</application> (patched for apng support) should have
      been installed before <application>gdk-pixbuf</application> and should
      exist on your system. If for some strange reason you haven't installed
      them, you should remove the <option>--with-system-jpeg</option> and
      <option>--with-system-png</option> options from the
      <filename>mozconfig</filename> file created below.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="yasm"/> or <xref linkend="libvpx"/>
      (to allow <application>Firefox</application> to play webm videos).
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
      <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://libevent.org/">Libevent</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/> and
      <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (for integration with the old version of
      <application>Gnome</application>),
      <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>, <xref linkend="nss"/>,
      <xref linkend="xulrunner"/> (linking against an installed xulrunner makes
      Firefox about 32 MB smaller, which is trivial compared to the size of
      xulrunner),
      <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink> (only for testing
      the jemalloc code) and
      <xref linkend="wget"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/firefox"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Firefox</title>

    <para>
      The configuration of <application>Firefox</application> is accomplished by
      creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing the desired
      configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename> is created
      below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an
      abbreviated description of each one), issue <command>./configure
      --help</command>. You may also wish to review the entire file and
      uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the
      following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running
# several jobs at once, but if you have a single core, delete this line:
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"

# If you have installed Yasm delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-webm

# If you have installed DBus-Glib delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed wireless-tools delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# If you have installed xulrunner uncomment these two lines:
# ac_add_options --with-system-libxul
# ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-&xulrunner-version;

# Uncomment these if you have installed them:
# ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
# ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
# 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

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr

# The rest of these options have no effect if you're
# building against an already installed xulrunner:
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-static
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --enable-shared
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Compile <application>Firefox</application> by issuing the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/fcntl.h/a#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;' \
  ipc/chromium/src/base/{file_util_linux,message_pump_libevent}.cc &amp;&amp;
sed -i '/sys\/time\.h/a#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;' ipc/chromium/src/base/time_posix.cc &amp;&amp;
sed -i 's# ""##' browser/base/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      If you have <emphasis>not</emphasis> linked
      <application>Firefox</application> against an installed
      <application>Xulrunner</application>:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>make -C firefox-build-dir/browser/installer</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, if you
      have <emphasis>not</emphasis> linked <application>Firefox</application>
      against an installed <application>Xulrunner</application>, install the
      package:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; &amp;&amp;
tar -xvf firefox-build-dir/dist/firefox-&firefox-version;.en-US.linux-$(uname -m).tar.bz2 \
  -C /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; --strip-components=1 &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv ../lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/firefox /usr/bin &amp;&amp;
mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &amp;&amp;
ln -sv ../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; &amp;&amp;
chown -R -v root:root /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you <emphasis>have</emphasis> linked against an already installed
      <application>Xulrunner</application>, as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C firefox-build-dir install &amp;&amp;
rm /usr/bin/firefox &amp;&amp;
cat &gt; /usr/bin/firefox &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
#!/bin/bash
/usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;/xulrunner /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/application.ini "${@}"
EOF
chmod 755 /usr/bin/firefox &amp;&amp;
mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &amp;&amp;
ln -sv ../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; &amp;&amp;
chown -R -v root:root /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed -i '/fcntl.h/a#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;'
      ipc/chromium/src/base/{file_util_linux,message_pump_libevent}.cc
      &amp;&amp; sed -i '/sys\/time\.h/a#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;'
      ipc/chromium/src/base/time_posix.cc</command>: These seds fix bugs that
      would otherwise break the build if you're using
      <application>GCC 4.7</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>sed -i 's# ""##' browser/base/Makefile.in</command>: This sed
      removes an unprintable control character from the title bar.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>make -f client.mk ...</command>: Mozilla products are packaged to
      allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
      configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
      <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename> file to
      get initial configuration and setup parameters.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>make -C firefox-build-dir/browser/installer</command>: this
      creates a <application>Firefox</application> tarball similar to the ones
      you can download from Mozilla.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>tar -xfv firefox-build-dir/dist ...</command>: This untars
      <application>Firefox</application> in /usr/lib. The
      <option>--strip-components=1</option> option removes the leading
      'firefox' directory from the filenames, allowing us to untar it
      into a versioned directory. Untaring it (instead of running make install)
      prevents it installing
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/firefox-devel-&firefox-version;</filename>
      which contains about 430 MB of files. If you need any of those files,
      they're in <xref linkend="xulrunner"/>
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>make -C firefox-build-dir install</command>: This runs
      <command>make install</command> in firefox-build-dir.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>ln -sfv ... /usr/bin/firefox</command>: this puts a symbolic link
      to the <command>firefox</command> executable in your ${PATH}.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</command>: this checks
      that <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>
      exists.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</command>: this
      makes a symbolic link to
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>. It's not
      really needed, <application>Firefox</application> checks
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename> by
      default, we make the symbolic link to keep all the plugins installed in
      one folder.
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Firefox</title>

    <para>
      If you deleted the <option>--disable-webm</option> option from your
      <filename>mozconfig</filename>, your <application>Firefox</application>
      can play most YouTube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To
      enable this, go to <ulink url="http://www.youtube.com/html5"/> and click
      on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled).
    </para>

    <para>
      If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application> or
      <application>KDE</application> you may like to create a
      <filename>firefox.desktop</filename> file so that
      <application>Firefox</application> appears in the panel's menus. If you
      didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig change the
      StartupNotify line to false. As the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Firefox
Comment=Browse The Web
Icon=firefox
Exec=firefox
Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Browser;WebBrowser;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
EOF
ln -sv -f /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/icons/mozicon128.png /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>firefox</seg>
        <seg>
          Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and
          helper modules installed in
          <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</filename>.
        </seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="firefox-prog">
        <term><command>firefox</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a gtk2 internet browser that uses the Gecko rendering engine.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="firefox firefox-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-firefox">firefox</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
</sect1>