Without any delay at all, Firefox 4 is available in FreeBSD ports! Big thanks to everyone involved! So far I tried Acid3 and WebM movies and they all work fine...
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Firefox 4 in FreeBSD ports!
Without any delay at all, Firefox 4 is available in FreeBSD ports! Big thanks to everyone involved! So far I tried Acid3 and WebM movies and they all work fine...
[CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD
Howdy,
We know that a lot people are waiting for Firefox 3.6,
but nox@ found a strange bug which is now solved.
The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain
addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all
problems are solved and we can start a CFT.
If everything works fine we plan to commit Firefox 3.6 next
weekend. We should also note that the java plugin currently
does not work with 3.6.
What’s new in Firefox 3.6
* Support for the HTML5 File API
* A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to
increase stability.
* The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click,
with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them
safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports
poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and
startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Please make sure all your addons are compatible with firefox 3.6,
backup your $HOME/.mozilla dir, also you need to reinstall
www/linux-f10-flashplugin10.
here is the patch:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/gecko/firefox36.diff
A big thanks is going to nox@, Andreas Tobler, Florian Seemts.
Happy Testing!
- Martin on behalf of the FreeBSD Gecko Team.
[CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD
Firefox 3.6
OMG! It's been like 15 minutes since Slashdot announced Firefox 3.6 is released and there is still no FreeBSD port for it! What. Are. The. Porters. Doing?!!
(I kid, I kid - I saw tantalizing commits coming in :) )
update: it's in the ports now!
New Gecko World coming :)
Firefox HTML 5 Ogg Theora playback
Apparently, playing 320x200 15 FPS native HTML5 (Ogg Theora) video in Firefox on FreeBSD takes less than 1% of a CPU core, and that's with X11 compositing enabled (translucent window), but not AIGLX. Nice. However, the "same" video at 640x480 at 30 FPS takes around 10%. It looks like audio is unsynced with video in both cases.