Package Details: icecat 115.17.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: icecat
Description: GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser
Upstream URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git
Keywords: browser esr gnuzilla web
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Submitter: None
Maintainer: figue (xiota)
Last Packager: xiota
Votes: 250
Popularity: 0.44
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-04 00:48 (UTC)

Dependencies (51)

Sources (10)

Pinned Comments

xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-08 03:44 (UTC) by xiota)

PKGBUILD has been updated. Major changes:

  • Downloads Firefox ESR and localization using the source array. Files are saved for reuse.
  • Saves freshly patched IceCat sources in a tarball for reuse.
  • Saves the PGO profile for reuse.

Notes:

  • Currently requires clang/llvm 17, which has to be built from AUR.
  • Wayland users, consider setting _build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will use xwayland-run for profiling.
  • PGO should work now, but if it doesn't and you're willing to go without, try _build_pgo=false.
  • Running out of RAM? Try adding mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=___ around line 300. Pick a value less than number of cores and free RAM in GB. For example, on a system with 8 cores, 64GB total RAM, but only 6 GB free, the value should be set to 4 or 5.
    • If a few people can confirm this is helpful, I will consider adding it as an additional option.
    • Main resource hog seems to be linking libxul.so. Leave a comment if you have a potential solution.

Having problems? Please provide details: processor make and model, number of cores, free -m, full log in pastebin, whether using AUR helper/makepkg/clean chroot, etc.

Latest Comments

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figue commented on 2021-04-21 09:25 (UTC)

Already updated to 78.10.0. See 9ff2ae5af0c6

Ningen commented on 2021-04-21 08:58 (UTC)

@figue

perl-rename (https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/perl-rename/) got updated recently on the official repos, maybe perl-file-rename in the AUR is not needed anymore? I tried to build without perl-file-rename by removing it in the PKGBUILD but for some reason when it defaults to the makeicecat script it thinks I do not have perl-rename installed, which I do.

Could you take a look at this on the next update?

figue commented on 2021-04-20 16:51 (UTC)

@cysp74 mozilla-common only had this:

[figue@suntk:~] $ pacman -Ql mozilla-common
mozilla-common /etc/
mozilla-common /etc/profile.d/
mozilla-common /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.csh
mozilla-common /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
[figue@suntk:~] $ cat /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"

I'm not sure why you have this permissions... Let me check.

cysp74 commented on 2021-04-20 11:16 (UTC)

@figue Since last commit, wrong permissions applied during package installation and placing non executable binaries, libs, etc. under /usr/lib

Looks like install commands at package() section have misconfigured permissions don't know mozilla-commons package how impacted this....

Snippet of tar install package:


-rwxrwx--- root/root    698008 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/icecat
-rwxrwx--- root/root    698008 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/icecat-bin
-rwxrwx--x root/root     40456 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/liblgpllibs.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root   2162184 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libmozavcodec.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root    230872 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libmozavutil.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root      5976 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libmozgtk.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root    132616 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libmozsandbox.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root   1224136 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libmozsqlite3.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root     10072 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libmozwayland.so
-rwxrwx--x root/root 130243288 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/libxul.so
-rw-rw---- root/root  21348430 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/omni.ja
-rwxrwx--- root/root    792424 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/pingsender
-rw-rw---- root/root       101 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/platform.ini
-rwxrwx--- root/root    691992 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/plugin-container
-rw-rw---- root/root         0 2021-04-20 11:02 usr/lib/icecat/removed-files

figue commented on 2021-04-19 21:38 (UTC)

@nophke thanks, that package was not a real dependency anymore. I have fixed in last commit.

nophke commented on 2021-04-18 21:37 (UTC)

This can't be build because mozilla-common does not exist anymore!

fredboy commented on 2021-04-06 13:06 (UTC)

Whenever there's some kind of js animation on a page (like on https://atom.io/), icecat starts freezing like crazy. Can't even close the tab. Is there a fix for that?

Okay, those weren't js animations but css, using translate etc. I was able to fix this by setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true.

compiler1413 commented on 2021-04-02 20:52 (UTC) (edited on 2021-04-02 20:54 (UTC) by compiler1413)

I can never build just one locale with _SPEED=Y set, i always get a sed error:

$ export _SPEED=Y
$ export _LOCALE=en-us
$ yay -S icecat

--snipped

+ grep -qw '\-i'
+ '[' 1s/_PP// = 1-i ']'
+ local sedexpr=s/_PP//
+ shift
+ for file in "$@"
+ '[' 1-i = 1-i ']'
+ continue
+ for file in "$@"
+ '[' 1browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild = 1-i ']'
+ '[' -f browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild ']'
+ sedhelper browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild s/_PP//
+ local file=browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
+ local expr=s/_PP//
++ md5sum browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
+ local 'md5=3aa0e7edc28d22ff65cd5557a5b89e1f  browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild'
+ echo Running modification-aware sed: sed s/_PP// -i browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
Running modification-aware sed: sed s/_PP// -i browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
+ /bin/sed s/_PP// -i browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
++ md5sum browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild
+ '[' '3aa0e7edc28d22ff65cd5557a5b89e1f  browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild' = '875fed0dfff6f2da8469645a5ba4076f  browser/branding/branding-common.mozbuild' ']'
+ rm -rf ./browser/metro ./addon-sdk/source/doc/static-files/media ./b2g
+ cp .cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-d5df5618fbf6f6ea0c49b6bfdcb098846d2cd777/data/bookmarks.html.in browser/locales/generic/profile/bookmarks.html.in
+ find l10n -wholename '*/brand.dtd'
+ xargs /bin/sed 's/trademarkInfo.part1.*/trademarkInfo.part1 "The IceCat logo is Copyright 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or any later version.">/' -i
/bin/sed: no input files
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
error making: icecat

akspecs commented on 2021-03-29 20:16 (UTC)

@figue thanks!

setting "security.sandbox.content.level" to 1 in about:config indeed is a workaround for videos in the browser crashing the tab they are playing from.

figue commented on 2021-03-29 16:43 (UTC)

@akspecs set in about:config "security.sandbox.content.level" to 1

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