IGNORE: please use www/firefox instead Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla Was Maintained by:gecko@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 25 Apr 2009 22:16:00 Also Listed In:ipv6 License: not specified in port
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the
Mozilla Application Suite.It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many
advanced features:
o Popup Blocking
o Tabbed Browsing
o Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS)
o Extensions
o Themes
o FastFind
o Improved Security
WWW: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: firefox3-devel
Configuration Options
===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-3.6.r2_2,1:
DBUS=on (default) "Enable D-BUS support"
NEWTAB=on (default) "Open external links in a new tab"
SMB=off (default) "Enable smb:// URI support using gnomevfs"
DEBUG=off (default) "Build a debugging image"
LOGGING=off (default) "Enable additional log messages"
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=off (default) "Enable some additional optimizations"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Reason:
If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a
HTML5 page: "Bad system call (core dumped)" you need to load the sem
module (kldload sem).
To load sem module on every boot, put the following into your
/boot/loader.conf:
sem_load="YES"
Port Moves
port moved to www/firefox on 2010-10-24 REASON: Upstream development focuses on Firefox 4.0
Number of commits found: 16
Commit History - (may be incomplete: see CVSWeb link above for full details)
- Update to 3.6 RC1
- Disable libnotify when dbus is disabled to avoid installing of dbus as a
dependency from libnotify. [1]
Reported and tested by: Stefan Thurner <thurners AT nicsys.de> [1]
- Update to 3.6 Beta 4
The Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features
for users to evaluate:
* Support for the HTML5 File API
* A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to
increase stability.
* The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
* Users can now change their browser's appearance with a single click,
with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them
safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports
poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and
startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Thanks to: Andreas Tobler, Florian Smeets, Joseph S. Atkinson, miwi@
- Update to Firefox 3.1 BETA3
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform,
which has been under development for the past 9 months. Firefox 3.1
is an incremental release on the previous version with significant
changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:
* Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
* Improvements to web worker thread support.
* Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey
JavaScript engine.
* New native JSON support.
* Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing
for faster content rendering.
* Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements,
the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3
properties,
SVG transforms and offline applications.
Thanks to: beat@, nox@, gahr@, Florian Smeets,
