source: xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml@ eb148eb

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!-- hopefully just for a couple of days
  <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.bz2">
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  <!ENTITY firefox-download-http " ">
  <!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        "d8d0c8c79660752b02d9e9ab69a68f94">
  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "70.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "3 GB (33 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "24 SBU (or 0.3 SBU if you&apos;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>

    &lfs70_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="libidl"/> and <xref linkend="zip"/></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&apos;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://www.webmproject.org/code/">libvpx</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/">Hunspell</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="doxygen"/>, <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/> and
    <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (for gnome integration),
    <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="unzip"/>, <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><?dbfo keep-together="auto"?><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 and
# you&apos;re not using an already installed xulrunner:
# ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
# ac_add_options --with-system-nss
# ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
# ac_add_options --enable-system-lcms
# ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
# ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

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&apos;re
# building against an already installed xulrunner:
ac_add_options --enable-pthreads
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --enable-system-png
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-zlib
ac_add_options --enable-shared
ac_add_options --disable-static
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests
EOF</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's# ""##' browser/base/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>

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

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; &amp;&amp;
tar -xfv firefox-build-dir/dist/firefox-*.tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; --strip-components=1 &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv ../lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/firefox /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>

    <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 's# ""##' browser/base/Makefile.in</command>: This
    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.</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
    &apos;firefox&apos; directory from the filenames, allowing us to untar it
    into a versioned directory. Untaring it (instead of running make install)
    prevents it installing /usr/lib/firefox-devel-&firefox-version; which
    contains about 430 MB of files. If you need any of those files,
    they&apos;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 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins exists (if you installed
    <xref linkend="librsvg"/>, it was probably already there).</para>

    <para><command>ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</command>:
    this makes a symbolic link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.</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">http://www.youtube.com/html5</ulink>
    and click on &apos;Join the HTML5 Trial&apos; (needs cookies
    enabled).</para>

  </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>