Changes in Firefox 3 package

B-Con · 2008-06-27 08:18:13

Was the Firefox 3 package slimmed down in any way? Are significant portions of it located in any other packages?

I ask because it takes 3 minutes to compile FX3 on my system now, which is just slightly a bit suspicious. (Yes, makepkg reports success and outputs a valid package.) Also, doing a pacman -Ql firefox | wc -l results in 89, which sounds like a low number. I find it unlikely, thought, that firefox3 is *that* trimmed down.

Anyway, I'm happy with FX3. Definitely snappier, although I'm not sure I can note any less memory usage. Tagged bookmarks will be wonderful, once I convert my x-hundred bookmarks over...

dyscoria · 2008-06-27 08:30:09

Something to do with being linked to xulrunner I think.

Allan · 2008-06-27 08:37:20

dyscoria wrote:

Something to do with being linked to xulrunner I think.

Yep, it is built on top of xulrunner these days.

neotuli · 2008-06-27 09:48:58

Yeah it's linked to the system xulrunner instead of the one included with the ff source iirc. That explains why it takes less time to compile (there's less to compile) and why there are less files.

B-Con · 2008-06-27 18:24:35

Mm... When looking through my packages after my most recent Syu (I hadn't done one in almost 3 weeks due to being busy/gone) I noticed XULRunner and was somewhat surprised I didn't at least recongize the name (I like to at least recognize the package names I have installed). I suppose that answers this question.

I suppose a complete recompile of firefox would require the recompilation of xulrunner then as well.

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Changes in Firefox 3 package

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Re: Changes in Firefox 3 package

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Re: Changes in Firefox 3 package

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Re: Changes in Firefox 3 package

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Re: Changes in Firefox 3 package

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