Package Details: icecat 115.18.0-1

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: 0.42
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (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.

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figue commented on 2021-03-27 22:49 (UTC)

@fredboy it's weird in this case, because I can surf in https://atom.io/ and I don't see any freeze. Did you set "security.sandbox.content.level" to 1?

fredboy commented on 2021-03-27 22:39 (UTC)

@figue disabled them all to make sure. It didn't help.

figue commented on 2021-03-27 21:55 (UTC)

@fredboy probably some extension is causing this. Try to disable it one by one and see what's going on.

fredboy commented on 2021-03-27 19:48 (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?

figue commented on 2021-03-12 00:20 (UTC)

@Ningen we can use 3 options to replace perl-file-rename. See this:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/makeicecat#n132

If in the official repos we had any of these, problem solved. Any other scenario goes through to patch makeicecat script.

Ningen commented on 2021-03-11 22:26 (UTC)

It should not be mandatory to have an AUR package as makedepends, can we have a build without perl-file-rename? We should stick to the UNIX philosophy and keep things simple, I am sure most people do not want anymore AUR packages than necessary.

Kristan_115 commented on 2021-03-08 02:23 (UTC)

i don't get it, my build of icecat looks raw like it doesn't even have any extensions pre-installed and it doesn't automatically connect to tor.

the browser refers itself to icecat but its just a boring build of firefox.

can i get a pkgbuild for previous versions?

figue commented on 2021-02-27 23:10 (UTC)

@cysp74 That seems to work too. Thanks!

cysp74 commented on 2021-02-27 18:53 (UTC)

I've made some checks and lowered "security.sandbox.content.level" to 1 (default is 4). Perhaps a bit better approach, instead of disabling completely sandbox.

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