Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got
all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode
to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and
submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug
session to fix our addon’s problem.
Archive for the 'Gecko' Category
Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got
all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode
to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and
submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug
session to fix our [...]
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* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them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.
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. [...]
Here is a small Status update about our work on gecko stuff:
beat@ already removed all references to www/mozilla. Also the
switch from USE_GECKO= xulrunner firefox mozilla to USE_GECKO= libxul
is mostly done. Some small parts are still in the tree and we
are working on them. Afterwards xulrunner will be removed.
Finally the first steps for upcoming Thunderbird3 and [...]
Howdy,
beat@ want some tester for SeaMonkey 2.0
here a full quota:
A few days ago SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released. To install SeaMonkey 2.0
a modified bsd.gecko.mk is needed. Therefore we are not able to commit
it to the ports tree until the tree is unfreezed. So now we are looking
for tester/reviewer of the SeaMonkey 2.0 port.
The port is [...]
So beat@ did the Gecko job more or less alone . So I thought
it’s a good idea to help a bit the KDE Team.. I’ve started with
a rework of the area51 repo. We splitted now Qt and KDE into
2 seperated repo’s. Makes the life a bit easier in future.
Also I rewrote the build system [...]
Goals:
Removal of mozilla, nvu, xulrunner and firefox2.
www/firefox35 should be moved to www/firefox.
The options USE_GECKO mozilla nvu xulrunner and firefox will be also removed.
Background:
We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it’s time to cleanup old stuff.
www/mozilla is 5 year old now, no longer supported by upstream, and
has many many vulnerabilities. We [...]
We’re happy to announce that following was updated:
- Update py-qt4 to py-qt4.5.4
- Update qscintilla-2* to 2.4
- Update py-sip to 4.8.2
- Update py-kde to 1.16.3
- Update py-qt to 1.18.1
- Update Qt4 to 4.5.2
- Update KDE to KDE-4.3.0
and is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. So what’s new in KDE:
The KDE Desktop Workspace provides a powerful [...]
Yes I’m alive A small update of what’s going
on here. At the beginning of this month we Called
for Testing of the new Qt-4.5 for FreeBSD, most
dependency ports build and work fine but unfortunately
py-qt4 from the portstree failed, we have now to wait
for the KDE 4.3 release to upgrade to Qt-4.5, py-qt-4.5,
and KDE 4.3. [...]
Yesterday Firefox 3.5 was released, and few hours
later it was in the Portstree. But I see that
some pepole can’t right read. So Please READ
the pkg-messages carefully:
Firefox 3.5 and HTML5
Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module.
If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a
HTML5 page:
“Bad system call (core dumped)”
you need [...]
Howdy,
Yesterday FF3.5 RC1 was released! Unfortunately
RC1 need a newer version of devel/nspr, we
already updated devel/nspr and it seems to be
work all fine. If you like to play with
both updates you can try following patch [1]. I
need to make a exp-run request for this
update to make sure nothing will be failed.
[1]
http://miwi.homeunix.com/patches/ff3.5rc1.diff
Please let us know if you [...]
