• Firefox Gentoo Package

• Gentoo - Gnome - Firefox - Flash - Sound: Greggor: Linux - Software: 9: 12:13 PM: firefox 1.5beta on gentoo: mndar: Linux - Software: 3: 11:12 PM: Gentoo firefox USE flags: mndar: Linux - Software: 5: 12:47 PM: Minor FireFox issues with Gentoo: vharishankar: Linux - Software: 9: 12:35 AM: firefox.
• Www-client/firefox: the `x8664-gentoo-linux-musl` target may not be installed 748849 - Assigned to mozilla www-client/firefox-82.0 fails to compile: 'jemallocpurgefreedpages' declared void.
• Browser-Home-Profile is a shell script that manage web browsers home profile and cache directories similar to Profile-Sync-Daemon bash script. However, bhp does not touch the underlying profile and cache directories contrary to psd with symbolic links which can render the profile/cache direcories unusable; it just bind mount temporary file system (see tmpfs for more info) on the directories.

NEWS 210122 about exGENT (Gentoo) 64 bit
I’ve made a new version of exGENT with only a few necessary packages pre-installed. It uses LXQt 0.15.1 as Desktop environment and kernel 5.10.8-gentoo-aufs-exton corresponding Kernel.org’s latest stable kernel 5.10.8. The ISO file is of 2220 MB. Despite this exGENT version 210120 runs surprisingly fast from DVD or USB. Even in VirtualBox and VMware. Faster than most other Linux live systems. I call my new version exGENT 2021 LXQt Live DVD/USB. It replaces version 200428. All installed packages in exGENT have been updated to the latest available version by 210122. Study the full package list.

What’s new in kernel 5.10 LTS? – The most exciting kernel in years!

Is exGENT Build 210122 unique?
If you have a look at Gentoo’s download site you will notice that the latest Gentoo live system is from 20160704 (!?). Furthermore there are only a few other distros based on Gentoo. The most well-known are Funtoo Linux and Sabayon Linux. Funtoo isn’t a live system. Sabayon is a live system distributed with different Desktops variants. (Not with LXQt though). I have tried some of them on the computers I have access to. None of Sabayon’s variants could run live. Not even in VirtualBox and VMware. My guess is that exGENT has better hardware recognition than Sabayon.

Who is exGENT/Gentoo for?
Experienced Linux users or those who really want to learn Linux. (Perhaps also for people who are bored with mainstream distributions like Ubuntu).

Screenshots
1. exGENT Build 210122 running Firefox/Netflix
2. exGENT Build 210122 – root’s Desktop
3. exGENT running Calamares in VirtualBox
4. exGENT running in VirtualBox in full screen
5. exGENT running showing a Samba connection

A wild qtwebengine appears! (seriously, it's even worse). It annoys me to no end that i need it for only one application, and that's anki (flashcards app). I finally decided to package precompiled version of it and it took much quicker to make an ebuld for it than to build the damn dependencies (pyqt5,qtwebengine). Especially since current version relies on deprecated pyqt4 + qtwebkit4 that.

Firefox is Mozilla's web browser. It is not the same thing as Firefox OS, which was a full operating system.

Aurora is the 'unbranded' version of Mozilla's Firefox.

Installation

USE flags

The above list of USE flag is not comprehensive. Use equery (part of app-portage/gentoolkit) for a full list:

Emerge

To compile the source version of Firefox ESR, issue:

Be aware that non-ESR versions are not getting stabilized.

Emerging the source version of Firefox can be a long process; a pre-compiled (binary) version does exist in the Gentoo repository, however users of the pre-built package should note the warning below and this message. To emerge the Firefox binary, issue:

Configuration

Running under Wayland

Since Firefox 65, it is possible to run Firefox natively under Wayland by launching it with the GDK_BACKEND=wayland environment variable set after having emerged Firefox with the USE flag wayland enabled. From a terminal:

To set Firefox to always open using the Wayland backend, set the following environment variable in the user's shell. Bash is the default user shell on Gentoo systems:

Enabling multitouch

Xinput2 scrolling

This brings touch scrolling and multitouch support for Firefox:

MOZ_USE_XINPUT2environment variable has to be set to a value of 1 in /etc/env.d/80firefox, or just before launching firefox in a shell. for example:

This also eliminates the predefined scroll step size for touchpad scrolling! All scrolling will be really smooth.

Wacom tablets/touchscreens may need extra configuration so they emit true touch events for X.

Multitouch zoom

This only works when the multitouch events reach Firefox, therefore the Xinput2 activation above has to be done first.

Middle mouse scroll (autoscroll)

Traditionally in Linux, the middle mouse button is used to paste the currently selected (highlighted) text into a text field. On Windows systems, the middle mouse button in Firefox is used for click-and-drag scrolling up and down the page. This functionality can be enabled in Firefox by opening about:config and setting the following value^[1]:

• general.autoScroll = true

Middle click-and-drag scrolling should now be enabled.

Although not necessary, sometimes it is desirable to disable all other middle-click functionality within Firefox when using click-and-drap scrolling. Open about:config and set the following values to disable middle-click functionality:

• middlemouse.contentLoadURL = false
• middlemouse.openNewWindow = false
• middlemouse.paste = false

Threads

Firefox >= 54 has 4 threads enabled by default. Threads can be adjusted by modifying the following in the about:config interface:

Where N is an integer number.

Audio backend

Firefox's cubeb audio library supports a number of different backends^[2][3].

Disabling percent-encoding

Normally, URLs that are copied from the address bar get percent-encoded. This may cause an annoyance when certain non-Latin symbols (such as Cyrillic) get encoded, as they become unreadable to humans.

To disable percent-encoding when copying from the address bar, set the about:config option network.standard-url.escape-utf8 to false.

Disable enforced digital signatures verification in Firefox >=48

This concerns mandatory add-ons signature in Firefox and can lead to security issues.

Method 1

Create this file:

Then insert this:

Method 2

Method 3

This patch works for both firefox 49 and firefox 51, and seems to be robust to changes.

Firefox Gentoo Package