Package Details: icecat 128.12.0-3

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: 251
Popularity: 0.59
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-07-11 02:08 (UTC)

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xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-20 23:15 (UTC) by xiota)

Description of build options and defaults. See PKGBUILD for current list.

  • _build_save_source (true) – save tarball of patched sources
  • _build_repatch (false) – discard previously saved tarball
  • _build_pgo (true) – enable profile guided optimization; ~20% better benchmarks, 3× build time
  • _build_pgo_reuse (try) – reuse previously generated profile
  • _build_pgo_xvfb (true) – use Xvfb for profiling, otherwise, use xwayland-run
  • _build_lto (false) – use link-time optimization (LTO); disabling may prevent spurious crashes
  • _build_system_libs (true) – use system libraries
  • _build_limit_cores (false) – limit parallelization based on memory and core availability

Examples of use:

  • _build_pgo=false makepkg -Csr
  • extra-x86_64-build -- -- _build_limit_cores=true
  • _build_pgo_xvfb=false yay icecat # usage with AUR helpers may vary

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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

akspecs commented on 2021-03-29 02:04 (UTC)

hi, all. i hope we're all doing well.

does anyone have any suggestions on why videos played in the browser will crash their tab? the same occurs with all extensions disabled, as well as in safe-mode.

any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

fredboy commented on 2021-03-28 00:30 (UTC)

@figue yes. I'll try rebuilding, maybe it'll help...

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.