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: 0.35
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

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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 2019-09-08 10:39 (UTC)

@khalikin we apply IceCat patch directly to Mozilla sources, exactly the same done in Guix distro (see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat/?O=20&PP=10#comment-692673).

viachaslavic commented on 2019-09-08 09:55 (UTC)

@figue why you bumped the package version instead package release? Last release icecat still have 60.7.0. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgrel

figue commented on 2019-09-06 10:26 (UTC)

@cysp74 thanks. Added in git.

cysp74 commented on 2019-09-06 07:54 (UTC)

Hi,

Would you please update /usr/share/applications/icecat.desktop file with the following changes:

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;application/x-xpinstall;

?

After this, update-desktop-database and hook from pacman can build correct databases and icecat will be usable for DEs as correct mime handler.

<deleted-account> commented on 2019-08-19 17:15 (UTC)

Hello, having issues installing ... install stops when it reaches "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/icecat-help|libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/Help" ... 404 error when look up that page, but can't find the line to replace with e.g. "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/"

misaka00251 commented on 2019-07-10 14:01 (UTC)

Thank you @kitsunyan! This also fixed the theme installation issue.

kitsunyan commented on 2019-07-09 20:58 (UTC)

Consider applying this patch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kitsunyan/foxy-overlay/ace020013799a88c722e1b727b363fe2f06a5f61/www-client/icecat/files/fix-addons.patch which fixes installation of those addons which don't have ID on IceCat ("Cannot find id for addon" error).

figue commented on 2019-05-14 13:27 (UTC)

@cysp74 thanks for your patience!!

cysp74 commented on 2019-05-14 11:52 (UTC)

@figue:

Confirmed, thanks for your efforts.

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