[plug] firefox

[Lance Duivenbode]

Sure, I can completely understand why you'd do it. I was just trying to 
communicate that I wouldn't recommend building Firefox/Mozilla from source 
unless you were very comfortable with it. Unlike other software, it's not 
just a simple ./configure and make. 

If you do go down that road, I would recommend using a Mozilla config as a 
reference, and being very careful about what features you enable/disable as 
this can affect how some extensions work. I'd also add the following to 
your .mozconfig as it speeds things up a little:

	mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j4

Of course you can always tweak the 'j' value if you've got a faster/slower 
system.

Cheers,
Lance

On Monday 15 September 2008 08:43:06 William Kenworthy wrote:
> In general, there are some good reasons to build from source.  You can
> get the options you want, not what someone else decides.  It can be a
> lot stabler than binary installs (especially general builds like this
> one), especially if you have other source built packages installed.  You
> can patch/modify the code before building if needed.
>
> On the downside, you need to know what you are doing, get it wrong
> and ...
>
> BillK
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 08:23 +0800, Lance Duivenbode wrote:
> > Sorry to chime in a little late, but I don't think you *really* want to
> > build Firefox from source. Perhaps what you should consider is visiting
> >
> > 	http://getfirefox.com
>
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