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Mozilla 1.5 updates and enhancements

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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of <application>Mozilla</application></title>
3
4<note>
5<para>According to the financial institutions, the following hack makes your
6browser insecure. You have been warned. Many sites use an MS-IE specific tag
7(autocomplete=off) to prevent autocomplete from working in some forms. This
8tag is now supported in <application>Mozilla</application> to appease the financial institutions. As per
9the requirements of the financial institutions, they will not even accept a
10solution where this a preference option. However our opinion is that it should
11be in the hands of the user. To enable autocomplete to bypass
12this restriction, we need to make a slight modification in the code.</para>
13
14<para>Open the file <filename>extensions/wallet/src/wallet.cpp</filename> in
15the <application>Mozilla</application> source tree and search for the line:
16<screen>#define WALLET_DONT_CACHE_ALL_PASSWORDS</screen>
17Then delete or comment out the line. Now, if anyone tells you MS-IE is user
18friendly, give them this example!</para>
19</note>
20
21<para>If you plan to install Enigmail, extract the ipc and engimail tarballs
22in the <filename class="directory">extensions</filename> directory.</para>
23
24<para>Compile <application>Mozilla</application> by running the following
25commands:</para>
26
27<screen><userinput><command>export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL="1" &amp;&amp;
28export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1" &amp;&amp;
29./configure --prefix=/usr \
30 --enable-default-mozilla-five-home \
31 --enable-toolkit-gtk2 --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 \
32 --with-x --with-system-zlib \
33 --with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-mng \
34 --enable-xft --enable-crypto \
35 --enable-java-supplement \
36 --disable-accessibility \
37 --disable-tests --disable-debug \
38 --disable-logging --enable-reorder \
39 --enable-strip --disable-pedantic \
40 --enable-cpp-rtti --enable-extensions=all &amp;&amp;
41make</command></userinput></screen>
42
43<para>If installing Enigmail, execute the following steps:</para>
44
45<screen><userinput><command>cd extensions/ipc &amp;&amp;
46./makemake -r &amp;&amp;
47make &amp;&amp;
48cd ../enigmail &amp;&amp;
49./makemake -r &amp;&amp;
50make &amp;&amp;
51cd ../..</command></userinput></screen>
52
53<para>Install <application>Mozilla</application> as follows:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput><command>make install &amp;&amp;
56install -d /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/nss &amp;&amp;
57cp -Lf dist/private/nss/*.h dist/public/nss/*.h \
58 /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/nss &amp;&amp;
59ln -nsf mozilla-&mozilla-version; /usr/include/mozilla &amp;&amp;
60ln -nsf mozilla-&mozilla-version; /usr/lib/mozilla</command></userinput></screen>
61
62<para>Install Enigmail as follows:</para>
63
64<screen><userinput><command>for i in components/enigmime.xpt \
65components/ipc.xpt components/libenigmime.so components/enigmail.js \
66components/enigmail.xpt chrome/enigmail.jar
67do
68 install dist/bin/$i /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/$i
69done</command></userinput></screen>
70
71<para>To enable multi-user operation, execute the following:</para>
72
73<screen><userinput><command>cd /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version; &amp;&amp;
74export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;" &amp;&amp;
75export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;" &amp;&amp;
76./regxpcom &amp;&amp;
77./regchrome &amp;&amp;
78touch `find /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version; -name *.rdf`</command></userinput></screen>
79
80</sect2>
81
82<sect2>
83<title>Optional Extra Switches</title>
84
85<para>Each of these switches can be added to the configure line in order to
86have the described effect on the <application>Mozilla</application> compile.</para>
87
88<para><option>--enable-elf-dynstr-gc</option>: Removes un-referenced
89strings from <acronym>ELF</acronym> shared objects generated during the build.
90Note that this option breaks build on alpha.</para>
91
92<para><option>--disable-mailnews</option>: Disable the mail and news
93clients.</para>
94
95<para><option>--disable-ldap</option>: Disable <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
96Support, recommended if mail is disabled.</para>
97
98<para><option>--enable-calendar</option>: Build the calendar client.</para>
99
100<para><option>--enable-xterm-updates</option>: This option is
101for enabling the <command>xterm</command> title with the current command when
102compiling.</para>
103
104<para><option>--enable-plaintext-editor-only</option>: Disable support
105for <acronym>HTML</acronym> editing. Do not use this switch if you are building
106the mail-news component.</para>
107
108</sect2>
109
110<sect2>
111<title>Additional build notes for <application>Mozilla Firebird</application> &firebird-version;</title>
112
113<para>Add the following env variable (The variable is named Phoenix since
114that was the original name for the <application>Mozilla
115Firebird</application> project):</para>
116
117<screen><userinput><command>export MOZ_PHOENIX="1"</command></userinput></screen>
118
119<para>Make sure that the following switches are passed to
120<command>./configure</command>: <option>--disable-calendar</option> and
121<option>--disable-mailnews</option>.</para>
122
123<para>We recommend installing in a separate prefix
124such as <parameter>--prefix=/opt/firebird-&firebird-version;</parameter>
125to prevent clashes with
126an installed <application>Mozilla</application>.</para>
127
128<para>The <application>Mozilla Firebird</application> executable is
129<command>MozillaFirebird</command>.</para>
130
131</sect2>
132
133<sect2>
134<title>Additional build notes for <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application> &thunderbird-version;</title>
135
136<para>Add the following env variable:</para>
137
138<screen><userinput><command>export MOZ_THUNDERBIRD="1"</command></userinput></screen>
139
140<para>Make sure that the following switches is passed to
141<command>./configure</command>: <option>--disable-calendar</option>.</para>
142
143<para>We recommend installing in a separate prefix
144such as
145<parameter>--prefix=/opt/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</parameter>
146to prevent clashes with
147an installed <application>Mozilla</application>.</para>
148
149<para>The <application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application> executable is
150<command>thunderbird</command>.</para>
151
152</sect2>
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