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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figue commented on 2011-08-19 21:22 (UTC)

Great work fauno! I'll take a look on your package, hope I'll can enable PGO...

fauno commented on 2011-08-19 18:05 (UTC)

It works!! Build files are here https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/icecat It takes a really long time using -j3 on a dual core machine. Binary packages for i686 can be found here (in a few minutes) and x86_64 is coming: http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/libre/os/i686

fauno commented on 2011-08-19 17:17 (UTC)

I finally removed the missing preprocessor error thanks to Giuseppe and it's doing the second pass now :)

fauno commented on 2011-08-19 17:12 (UTC)

I finally removed the missing preprocessor error thanks to Giuseppe and it's doing the second pass now :)

figue commented on 2011-08-18 15:18 (UTC)

Updated http://mirror.linuzeros.org/icecat/testing/icecat-6.0-1.src.tar.gz xpt.py workaround done (with a little patch). Now it's more strange, it fails on `make install`!! [...] adding: defaults/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css (deflated 47%) adding: defaults/profile/prefs.js (deflated 35%) +++ Failed to get ScriptSecurityManager service, running without principals/home/figue/icecat/6.0/src/icecat-6.0/browser/installer/../../dist/bin/run-icecat.sh: line 131: 4504 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} make[1]: *** [install] Error 139 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/figue/icecat/6.0/src/icecat-6.0/browser/installer' make: *** [install] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting...

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-08-18 03:38 (UTC)

@figue. I'm on i686. There is the same problem as cb474 on my platform. When I set "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled" to false, the problem disappear.

cb474 commented on 2011-08-18 01:12 (UTC)

@figue, I'm also on x86_64, with the flash problem I reported below. Ironically, setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false turns off the browser feature that isolates plugins in separate processes, so they don't crash the entire program. So it doesn't really make sense that with this feature on, flash seems to slow down the entire program, but with the feature off everything works fine. See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins Anyway, I don't really know anything about this, I was just reading that explanation of what dom.ipc.plugins.enabled does. One difference I notice between Firefox and Icecat is that Icecat has two entries, not seen in about:config for Firefox. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so (set to true) and dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libnptest.so (set to true). Setting these either individually or together to false did not solve the problem.

miezebieze commented on 2011-08-17 20:32 (UTC)

@figue: I had no problems at build time and no crashes at run time, but flash didn't work at all with "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled == true". Now it seems to be okeh. I have an x86_64.

figue commented on 2011-08-17 19:57 (UTC)

@andy123 --disable-crashreporter it's already on mozconfig. I added it on ./configure, but it has no effect at all: /usr/bin/python2.7: can't open file '/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-6.0/sdk/bin/xpt.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

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