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ביום שישי 09 מרץ 2007, 12:07, נכתב על ידי Fabio A Correa: |
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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 |
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> > then 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 |
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> original Firefox branding is present. Do not forget to emerge --sync first! |
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I guess you meant USE="mozbranding", and yes, it solved the layering bug, but |
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not the fonts rendering issue. |
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> > 1) fonts look much uglier. Having the same settings (including |
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> > gtk-chtheme) 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 |
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> implementation is robust enough to render fonts or manage layering the same |
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> way than the x86 implementation. Not that XPCOM is the cause of the bugs |
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> you comment on. |
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> On the other hand, the Gentoo folks have written a number of patches to |
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> change mozilla-firefox behaviour; wou can note this, for a trivial example, |
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> when you have to hit Ctrl+Shift+W to close 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 |
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> mozilla-firefox, work on the sources and read the patches and the ebuild. |
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> Try patched and unpatched builds and check for the bugs. By the way, you |
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> cannot distribute your compiled modifications with the Firefox 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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Thanks for the info. |
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--yuval |
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