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: 0.39
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 2019-09-16 08:43 (UTC) (edited on 2019-09-16 11:52 (UTC) by figue)

@jaro3 I tried to build branch 68 some time ago, but official IceCat patch fails in several points and I preferred to wait. Do you know if Fedora has a "PKGBUILD equivalent" site where I can see how they patched the sources?

If you want to build IceCat directly using Fedora sources, you can, but in the meantime, I don't want to use Fedora sources unless I know what is patched.

::EDIT::

Found it! https://gitlab.com/anto.trande/icecat/commits/master

But it seems a fork of the GNU... In fact, Antonio patch makeicecat script (this is OK) but it pulls latest changes from several extensions too (like viewtube, https everywhere, etc.).

Any thoughts?

jaro3 commented on 2019-09-16 03:09 (UTC)

Anyone can build the newest version?

https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/icecat/

figue commented on 2019-09-12 19:49 (UTC)

it's okay. I didn't think about that specific case. It's already changed in git. Thanks for the tip.

tleydxdy commented on 2019-09-12 19:47 (UTC)

sh is only symlinked to bash by default. someone (like me) do change it to link to other shells. Usually if you have a script with #!/bin/sh it means it's POSIX

figue commented on 2019-09-12 19:43 (UTC)

@tleydxd I understand, but 'sh' is part of bash package in Archlinux, as far as I know, I don't think in POSIX when I write PKGBUILDs... Anyway I can change it to bash...

tleydxdy commented on 2019-09-12 19:24 (UTC) (edited on 2019-09-12 19:25 (UTC) by tleydxdy)

Please change line 50 of the PKGBUILD

sh makeicecat

to

bash makeicecat

it is not compatiable with all POSIX shells

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.

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