Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:25:31 -0400 From: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> To: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gecko@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firefox and GTK2 Message-ID: <491275b9-47ef-58b4-ab0c-bdaf1bed13b4@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <y31m-acgi-wny@FreeBSD.org> References: <7536c5cf-f8a0-fe5c-661f-b7909b9d57aa@FreeBSD.org> <y31m-acgi-wny@FreeBSD.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------670730B98C879AB14B796BA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On 6/27/19 6:30 PM, Jan Beich wrote: > (CC'ing public list. See http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate ) > > Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> writes: > [snip] > > No. Gtk2 is required for Adobe Flash (NPAPI) support[1]. --disable-npapi is > unlikely[2] due to extra maintenance cost unless tested together[3] with > other --disable-* options. > > Current www/firefox still supports www/flashplayer (confirmed myself) > despite confusion[4]. According to upstream (linked in bug 1455897) it > will stop around Firefox 73.0 if not postponed until after ESR76. > > [1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=gtk2 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455897 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377445 > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371159 > [4] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/flashplayer-in-recent-www-firefox.65810/ > Thanks for the info. Do you think we could switch to libcanberra-gtk3 like the attached patch? Steve --------------670730B98C879AB14B796BA4 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="Mk_bsd.gecko.mk_libcanberra-gtk3-rev0.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Mk_bsd.gecko.mk_libcanberra-gtk3-rev0.diff" diff --git Mk/bsd.gecko.mk Mk/bsd.gecko.mk index 28cd910ae90a..50df148513cc 100644 --- Mk/bsd.gecko.mk +++ Mk/bsd.gecko.mk @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ LDFLAGS+= -B${LOCALBASE}/bin .endif .if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MCANBERRA} -RUN_DEPENDS+= libcanberra>0:audio/libcanberra +RUN_DEPENDS+= libcanberra-gtk3>0:audio/libcanberra-gtk3 .endif .if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MDBUS} --------------670730B98C879AB14B796BA4--
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