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: 0.42
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-04 00:48 (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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<deleted-account> commented on 2011-10-01 08:18 (UTC)

Just like with the latest 6.0 releases, the package fails to build on my machine with the following error message: make: *** [profiledbuild] Error 245 [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! I understand that OTF is the OpenType Font library. I do have libotf installed. But there is no such path (/usr/share/fonts/OTF). I haven't seen anything where I could manipulate this in the configuration.

figue commented on 2011-09-29 18:16 (UTC)

I've a personal repo here, locales included: [blackhole] http://mirror.linuzeros.org/icecat/repo/i686/ Feel free to use it. x86_64 is available too.

fauno commented on 2011-09-29 18:07 (UTC)

skydrome you better wait for icecat 7, firefox was released a couple days ago :)

skydrome commented on 2011-09-29 17:50 (UTC)

would it be possible for someone to provide binaries for i686 it would be extremely useful for laptop users. The parabola repo hasnt updated their icecat package. I hope someone can do this, thanks

figue commented on 2011-09-25 15:08 (UTC)

@thevoidzero Works fine for me. Try to start with a clean directory: mv ~/.gnuzilla ~/.gnuzilla.bad

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-09-25 12:47 (UTC)

I'm having troubles with sessionstore. I can't seem to save sessions and restore on browser reopen.

figue commented on 2011-09-05 14:33 (UTC)

I need more time to test it properly, but this morning it seems fine. Flash still needs dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false.

fauno commented on 2011-09-05 13:25 (UTC)

nice! did you have trouble with sessionstore? your PKGBUILD isn't much different than mine...

figue commented on 2011-09-05 12:19 (UTC)

6.0.1 released. Now PGO works!