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)

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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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fauno commented on 2011-08-17 18:12 (UTC)

About PGO, I got to skip the crashreporter locales error (was it failing for you?) but now it's missing the preprocessor.pl script.

fauno commented on 2011-08-17 17:50 (UTC)

About PGO, I got to skip the crashreporter locales error (was it failing for you?) but now it's missing the preprocessor.pl script.

figue commented on 2011-08-17 15:44 (UTC)

@andy123 Thanks. It seems xpt.py file doesn't exist in xulrunner package never :O

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-08-17 15:13 (UTC)

@figue same on x86_64, looks like we don't have a "xpt.py" but icecat wants to use it during the build process.

fauno commented on 2011-08-17 14:54 (UTC)

I'm building it like Arch's firefox. So far it fails trying to build the crashreporter locale, which is disabled... I removed any mention to it I found useful, I'll keep you posted.

figue commented on 2011-08-17 13:16 (UTC)

@cb474 thank you for the workaround. It works for me. Do you have an i686 too? Anyone can test it in a x86_64? In this release Giuseppe add Mafiaafire by default. Works fine for me. Anyway, you can disable it o delete it from /usr/lib. I'm trying to build IceCat through XULrunner, but doesn't work now. If anyone want to help, this is the tarball: http://mirror.linuzeros.org/icecat/testing/icecat-6.0-1.src.tar.gz (not working) See this for the build: http://mirror.linuzeros.org/icecat/testing/build-error-6.0.txt

cb474 commented on 2011-08-17 09:29 (UTC)

With the upgrade to 6.0, I'm getting a problem where sites running flash crash icecat and I have to force quit. In a terminal, I get this error: ** (icecat-bin:20483): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 16 ** (icecat-bin:20483): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12 If I go into about:config and set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false, that solves the problem as a workaround. Firefox 6.0 on the same machine does not exhibit this problem. Any suggestions?

cb474 commented on 2011-08-17 05:26 (UTC)

Is Mafiaafire Riderector a default extension in icecat now? It suddenly appeared with icecat 6.0 and doesn't seem like it can be removed. Just trying to figure out where it came from. Thanks.

fauno commented on 2011-08-17 00:07 (UTC)

figue: in my user experience, it's using a lot more ram. one of my machines swaps constantly and it has 1gb ram :|

figue commented on 2011-08-16 23:55 (UTC)

@fauno Maybe it's a good idea. Do you have noticed any change in user-end experience?

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