Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 17:50:43 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: rotkap@gmx.de, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firefox 4 - Beta Message-ID: <20110305175043.42b7ec98@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4D723F43.4040506@FreeBSD.org> References: <rhk948-1bv1.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <4D723F43.4040506@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:48:51 +0100 Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 05.03.2011 12:48, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there someone who likes to go for the Firefox 4 in ports? > > > > maybe into www/firefox-devel? > > > > > > Firefox 4 is in the State "beta 12" - what means it is the release > > candidate. > > Firefox 4 is available for FreeBSD for a long time in our development > repository. Please have a look at this page for more information about > the freebsd-gecko repository: > https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/ > > Firefox 4 lives at: > https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/www/firefox-devel/ > > We are not going to commit a Firefox 4 Beta or RC to the ports tree. If > you like to test Firefox 4 use the one from the development repository > at your own risk. > If you really want to try the 4.0b12 out and are running linux emulation and have linux-firefox installed then it's trivial. Download firefox-4.0b12.tar.bz2, unpack it somewhere convenient, edit firefox/firefox and change moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/firefox-4.0b12 to moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/linux-firefox. You can then start firefox/firefox and it just works. -- Gary Jennejohn
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