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Hey Yuval, |
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Yuval Hager wrote: |
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> I have been using firefox-bin for historical reasons (flash plugin), but then |
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> found out I could also use nspluginwrapper for that. |
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> Then I installed firefox from source (a.k.a. Bon Echo), but found out it |
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> behaved differently from firefox-bin: |
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Maybe you will want to give it a try with USE="-bindist" so that the original Firefox branding |
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is present. Do not forget to emerge --sync first! |
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> 1) fonts look much uglier. Having the same settings (including gtk-chtheme) |
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> gives different results, firefox-bin being preferable. |
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> 2) Layering bug - at least at one site, I saw that content with a lower |
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> z-index overlays content with higher z-index. |
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You can also check bugs.mozilla.org for this bugs. |
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> I couldn't find anything of help in the bugs.gentoo.org database nor the |
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> changelog - can someone refer me to the relevant info on this? |
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> I would much like to work on my source compiled binaries, but it seems |
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> inferior.. is it? |
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It depends on several factors. For example, whether the amd64 XPCOM implementation is robust |
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enough to render fonts or manage layering the same way than the x86 implementation. Not that |
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XPCOM is the cause of the bugs you comment on. |
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On the other hand, the Gentoo folks have written a number of patches to change mozilla-firefox |
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behaviour; wou can note this, for a trivial example, when you have to hit Ctrl+Shift+W to close |
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a window instead of Ctrl+W. |
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Then a way to find the causes of those bugs is to emerge --fetch-all-uri mozilla-firefox, work |
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on the sources and read the patches and the ebuild. Try patched and unpatched builds and check |
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for the bugs. By the way, you cannot distribute your compiled modifications with the Firefox |
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branding. |
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You can also find build info on firefox on the Linux From Scratch website: |
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http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/xsoft/firefox.html |
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Physics Dept, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia |
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