Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:38:16 -0500 From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> To: Jan Beich <jbeich@tormail.org>, gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Using xulrunner (Re: USE_MOZILLA=yes for firefox and thunderbird) Message-ID: <56A6CE08.2090501@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <1Sp9VY-0009Vv-JW@internal.tormail.org> References: <4FFE0561.9050109@aldan.algebra.com> <1Sp9VY-0009Vv-JW@internal.tormail.org>
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Picking this up 4 years later... Why don't we simply install xulrunner
and make all the applications using it into wrappers? Would not that be
terrific? Smaller packages, less run-time memory consumption for
millions of people, shorter build-times, no patch-duplications?
-mi
On 11.07.2012 22:51, Jan Beich wrote:
> The rest is simplifying gecko-app ports (firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey)
> by throwing away most patches, shrinking Makefile size and fixing issues like
>
> $ firefox
> Could not read application.ini
> Exit 1
>
> which can be worked around with
>
> $ /usr/local/lib/libxul/xulrunner-stub -app /usr/local/lib/firefox/application.ini
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