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: 0.42
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 2011-06-30 23:18 (UTC)

@wonder I have this bug too, but I'm talking about this: http://blackhole.linuzeros.org/figue/screenshot-icecat.png Look at the right bar. I launched IceCat 3 times, adding it to favourites, but those icons don't launch anything when I close the process, so Gnome Shell is failing when create the favourite. It's very weird.

wonder commented on 2011-06-29 23:51 (UTC)

@figure that is a bug in nvidia driver http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=163178

figue commented on 2011-06-29 21:32 (UTC)

@cb474 yes, more than 1 hour in my computer I have some issues with Gnome Shell extension dock. Launcher icon appears 2 times when I launch IceCat. Anyone have extra/gnome-shell-extension-dock and can confirm this? Maybe it's just my session (long time without restart with many updates)...

cb474 commented on 2011-06-29 19:23 (UTC)

@figue the build worked fine for me, it just took a really long time (30 minutes? and hour? i forget).

figue commented on 2011-06-29 17:09 (UTC)

@wonder understood... @all Any issues with new build process?

wonder commented on 2011-06-29 15:07 (UTC)

sadly it breaks gjs and i decided not to update it for now

figue commented on 2011-06-29 14:45 (UTC)

@wonder Great! I'm not sure what's better choice for IceCat. I really enjoy fastest build with xulrunner, but I understand the xulrunner situation

wonder commented on 2011-06-29 06:58 (UTC)

i intent to update xulrunner today but first i need to be sure it doesn't break stuff like gnome-shell :)

figue commented on 2011-06-29 06:38 (UTC)

5.0 is up. There are major changes in build process: - Firefox from official repos was rewrited and, now, doesn't have xulrunner dependency (extra/xulrunner is out-of-date right now) - Need to build all the source which makes build process longer. - Firefox include now PGO (Profile-Guided Optimization), but I'm not sure that works in IceCat (tried, but build fail all the times). Now we have IceCat "PGO free". Please, test as usual. When I have some time, I will study the issue of PGO.

figue commented on 2011-06-24 19:02 (UTC)

There is an alpha version here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/5.0/ but it's buggy now https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2011-06/msg00011.html So I haven't time to test it and I need IceCat very stable because it's my default browser in my daily work.

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