source: xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml@ 6e8b058

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!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://ftp.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        "385ad037451f141b68515c73cad01704">
  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "148 MB">
  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "4.9 GB (66 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "60 SBU">
]>

<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>

    &lfs76_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="unzip"/> and
      <xref linkend="zip"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
      <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
      <xref linkend="nss"/>,
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/> and
      <xref linkend="yasm"/>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        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.
      </para>
    </note>

    <note>
      <para>
        With <application>Firefox-31.0</application> and later versions, you
        must have installed <application>OpenSSL</application> before
        <application>Python 2</application>, 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
        <filename>/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so</filename> exists.
        If it does not, reinstall <xref linkend="python2"/> (after
        installing <xref linkend="openssl"/>  - the latest version of any
        <emphasis>currently maintained</emphasis> version of Openssl should
        be satisfactory if already installed - if that package has not already
        been installed).
      </para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="gst-plugins-base"/> (with
      <xref linkend="gst-plugins-good"/> and
      <xref linkend="gst-ffmpeg"/> at runtime), or
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
      <xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),
      <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
      <xref linkend="wget"/>,
      <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/> and
      <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>
    </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"
<literal># If you have a multicore machine, firefox will now use all the cores by
# default. Exceptionally, you can reduce the number of cores, e.g. to 1,
# by uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"

# 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-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</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>

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

    <para>
      Install <application>Firefox</application> by running the following
      commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &amp;&amp;

mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv ../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      The above instruction just installs the parts you need to run
      <application>Firefox</application>. Alternatively, if you want to
      install the full <application>Firefox</application> development
      environment, run the following command as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C firefox-build-dir install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <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>ln -sfv ... /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</command>:
      This command creates a symbolic link to <filename
      class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>. It's not really
      needed, as <application>Firefox</application> checks <filename
      class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename> by default, but the
      symbolic link is made 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>mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &amp;&amp;

cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
<literal>[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</literal>
EOF

for s in 16 32 48
do
install -v -Dm644 /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser/chrome/icons/default/default${s}.png \
                  /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${s}x${s}/apps/firefox.png
done &amp;&amp;
install -v -Dm644 /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser/icons/mozicon128.png \
                  /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/firefox.png &amp;&amp;
gtk-update-icon-cache -qf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &amp;&amp;
unset s</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>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; and
          /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
        </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 <application>GTK+ 2</application> internet browser that uses the
            Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="firefox firefox-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-firefox">firefox</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>