Firefox 43 and GTK2

Disco Dave · 2015-12-17 01:07:46

It appears that as of Firefox 43 on Arch, it now uses gtk3. I was wondering if it was possible to make Firefox without gtk3 but gtk2 instead. I tried running the pkgbuild I got from ABS and removed the "ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3" from the mozconfig. I then tried running "makepkg -si" and it appeared to work, however the compiling has been running for over an hour now. Am I doing something wrong? Does Firefox really take over an hour to compile? And is there a better way to disable gtk3 and use gtk2 instead for firefox?

parazyd · 2015-12-17 01:20:06

Yes, depending on the system, compiling can take up to two hours... You're okay.

Disco Dave · 2015-12-17 01:25:18

Is there a better way to disable gtk3? And does removing the "ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3" line from the mozconfig compile firefox without gtk3?

parazyd · 2015-12-17 01:28:25

Remove the gtk3.tar.xz entries in the various tooltool manifests, as well as --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3

Disco Dave · 2015-12-17 01:37:40

Alright thanks, I'll let you know how this works out. I should really just find a suitable gtk3 theme, so I dont mind using gtk3 anymore.

axs · 2015-12-17 14:22:21

Shouldn't it be gtk2 xor gtk3?

I did not dig deeper yet and I'm not familiar with the firefox dependency tree, but PKGBUILD for firefox explicitly lists both.
Is it ok to fill it as a bug? If not, could anyone explain the reasons for it depending on both gtk branches?

On a side note, sudden gtk3 dependency resolved with pacman -Rs firefox.
Kind of happy it's not my primary or even secondary browser.

Trilby · 2015-12-17 14:59:09

mod note: merged the previous post with existing thread.

You may also want to see the grr thread (and some of the links included) starting here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1586495

Scimmia · 2015-12-17 15:24:35

axs wrote:

Shouldn't it be gtk2 xor gtk3?

No

axs wrote:

I did not dig deeper yet and I'm not familiar with the firefox dependency tree, but PKGBUILD for firefox explicitly lists both.
Is it ok to fill it as a bug?

No

axs wrote:

If not, could anyone explain the reasons for it depending on both gtk branches?

Search for previous bug reports, it's already been brought up and explained.

brebs · 2015-12-17 16:51:10

Relevant bug report is Disable GTK3 in Firefox 43 until Firefox 45.

Scimmia · 2015-12-17 17:00:18

brebs wrote:

Relevant bug report is Disable GTK3 in Firefox 43 until Firefox 45.

No, that's not the one I'm talking about

cameo · 2015-12-17 19:31:48

I'm not getting this really, is this the same problem the OP is talking or not?

I've actually been running a gtk2 theme and now Firefox 43 is looking weird: some crippled scroll bar, huge tabs and icons, and since my main screen is only 1024x768, the tab and other bars cover 1/5 of it ...
And I don't want to run ff always full screen.

Too bad I cleared my cache just three days ago~

Last edited by cameo (2015-12-17 22:50:57)

slytux · 2015-12-18 17:21:08

Besides removing the "ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3" option in mozcong source file and recompiling firefox , the other way to fix the look depends on the GTK3 icon theme. For the kde look, I installed breeze-icons and modified ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze

Last edited by slytux (2015-12-22 17:14:03)

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#1 2015-12-17 01:07:46

Firefox 43 and GTK2

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Re: Firefox 43 and GTK2

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#7 2015-12-17 14:59:09

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