| Port details on branch 2026Q3 |
- firefox Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
- 156.0,2 www
=0 156.0,2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org
 - Port Added: 2026-07-13 21:00:06
- Last Update: 2026-09-10 20:14:52
- Commit Hash: 2735185
- Also Listed In: wayland
- License: not specified in port
- WWW:
- https://www.firefox.com/
- Description:
- 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
¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 
- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - There is no configure plist information for this port.
- USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- Conflicts:
- CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/www/firefox/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install www/firefox
- pkg install firefox
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: firefox
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- NOT_FOR_ARCHS: i386
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1789059221
SHA256 (firefox-156.0.source.tar.xz) = 1f2768c043510009abaa3f078123664e106d3ab9dfce75d1819ad96b2145aab9
SIZE (firefox-156.0.source.tar.xz) = 802800568
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- nspr>=4.32 : devel/nspr
- nss>=3.128 : security/nss
- libevent>=2.1.8 : devel/libevent
- harfbuzz>=10.1.0 : print/harfbuzz
- graphite2>=1.3.14 : graphics/graphite2
- png>=1.6.45 : graphics/png
- dav1d>=1.0.0 : multimedia/dav1d
- libvpx>=1.15.0 : multimedia/libvpx
- py312-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py312
- v4l_compat>0 : multimedia/v4l_compat
- nasm : devel/nasm
- yasm : devel/yasm
- zip : archivers/zip
- libc++abi.a : devel/wasi-libcxx19
- libc.a : devel/wasi-libc@19
- wasi-compiler-rt19>0 : devel/wasi-compiler-rt19
- rust-cbindgen>=0.29.4 : devel/rust-cbindgen
- rust>=1.96.0 : lang/rust
- libnotify>0 : devel/libnotify
- jack.h : audio/jack
- pulseaudio.h : audio/pulseaudio
- sndio.h : audio/sndio
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- llvm-config19 : devel/llvm19
- node : www/node24
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- python3.12 : lang/python312
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
- xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- libpci.so : devel/libpci
- ffmpeg>=6.0,1 : multimedia/ffmpeg
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
- xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
- xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
- xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
- xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
- xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
- xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
- Library dependencies:
-
- libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
- libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
- libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
- libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
- libaom.so : multimedia/aom
- libdav1d.so : multimedia/dav1d
- libevent.so : devel/libevent
- libffi.so : devel/libffi
- libgraphite2.so : graphics/graphite2
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
- libnss3.so : security/nss
- libpng.so : graphics/png
- libpixman-1.so : x11/pixman
- libvpx.so : multimedia/libvpx
- libwebp.so : graphics/webp
- libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
- libdbus-glib-1.so : devel/dbus-glib
- libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
- libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
- libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
- libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
- libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
- libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- ===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-156.0,2:
CANBERRA=off: Sound theme alerts
DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...)
LIBPROXY=off: Proxy support via libproxy
LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations
PROFILE=on: Build with profiling support
TEST=off: Build and/or run tests
====> Extra cubeb audio backends (OSS is always available)
ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support
JACK=on: JACK audio server support
PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support
SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- www_firefox
- USES:
- tar:xz compiler:c++17-lang cpe elfctl gl gmake gnome iconv llvm:min=17,noexport localbase nodejs:24,build,env pkgconfig python:build desktop-file-utils jpeg
- pkg-message:
- For install:
- ## Missing features
Some features found on Windows, macOS and Linux are not implemented:
- Encrypted Media Extensions (requires Widevine CDM binary)
- Process sandboxing (requires Capsicum backend)
- Reduced memory usage (requires mozjemalloc)
- Crash Reporter (requires Google Breakpad and reproducible builds)
- WebVR (requires open source runtime)
- TCP fast open
- `about:networking#networkid` (requires link state notification)
## Cursors
From Firefox 142 on, this port defaults to using the new (themed)
cursor selection. On the upside, this makes Firefox respect the
desktop environment's theme, on the downside this breaks compatibility
with the legacy X cursor names. If you experience issues (i.e. the
mouse cursor not changing to the pointer ("hand") when hovering over
links), your desktop environment is most likely still set to the legacy
default/builtin "theme". To remedy this, either
- set about:config variable "widget.gtk.legacy-cursors.enabled" to "true"
to re-enable the legacy cursors, or
- use the Xcursor framework to set a cursor theme (e.g. X resource
item Xcursor.theme), see Xcursor(3) for details. The Adwaita theme
will have been installed as a dependency of gtk3 and does work.
The latter option is only available for X environments.
## Audio backend
Currently used audio backend can be inspected on `about:support` page.
Supported backends and default probing order is as follows:
- `pulse-rust` if `pulseaudio` package is installed (PULSEAUDIO option)
- `jack` if `jackit` package is installed (JACK option)
- `sndio` if `sndio` package is installed (SNDIO option)
- `alsa` if `alsa-lib` package is installed (ALSA option)
- `oss` (always available)
To force a specific backend open `about:config` page and create
`media.cubeb.backend` preference.
Microphone selection only works in `oss`, `pulse-rust` backends.
Other backends are limited to `default` which is usually `/dev/dsp`,
so use virtual_oss to reroute microphones from non-default devices.
## Gamepad API
Requires evdev(4) joystick support. On FreeBSD 13 and later enable hgame(4)
while older versions can use sysutils/iichid or multimedia/webcamd.
## smb:// issues
Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly.
## sftp://
Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily
setup public key authentication to `remote_host`:
$ ssh-keygen
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"
The SSH server on `remote_host` must allow pub key authentication.
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
156.0,2 10 Sep 2026 20:14:52
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 156.0 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/156.0/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit fe9b504c67fb9aca4f8ebbdc5152bd02620fded9) |
155.0.1,2 04 Sep 2026 18:25:56
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 155.0.1
Release Notes:
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/155.0.1/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit 32eca12d358c49e059475860bc6d9c0db840c584) |
155.0,2 27 Aug 2026 17:57:58
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 155.0 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/155.0/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit a57fad23e9e19f47473f85fbde89510ae51a234d) |
154.0.1_1,2 26 Aug 2026 18:50:32
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: fix typo in Makefile
Fixup commit 0074ee3b2ea7d87a02a6a3c345ddb0e634367675
(cherry picked from commit 38be41f50dc9664b88545855f18e9bad057b7885) |
154.0.1,2 25 Aug 2026 20:39:50
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: a shot at enabling WebSerial
PR: 297874
Submitted by: pcc
(cherry picked from commit 0074ee3b2ea7d87a02a6a3c345ddb0e634367675) |
154.0.1,2 24 Aug 2026 21:50:30
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 154.0.1 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/154.0.1/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit 362e7c4cd6b5ae4cc1d0f46240c650b551d8011b) |
154.0,2 12 Aug 2026 21:49:30
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 154.0 (rc1)
Relesae Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/154.0/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit edd2352278082b39080539fb15d2dfa78341e42c) |
153.0.4,2 10 Aug 2026 19:57:38
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update tp 153.0.4 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0.4/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit bbde112fa4bc5d3b4d24effc880cec59a5a12ede) |
153.0.3,2 09 Aug 2026 13:22:01
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
gecko: declare NOT_FOR_ARCHS=i386
The building and linking of the rust parts on x86 needs a larger
address space than a 32bit platform can provide (at most 4GB).
The gecko ports have been failing for quite a while on the official
builders with an "rustc-LLVM ERROR: out of memory" message, e.g.
https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy18/data/144i386-default/6f1fe399c86f/logs/thunderbird-153.0.2.log
We can as well stop trying to save the CPU cycles leading up to
this error.
(cherry picked from commit 368d875486b966c782bc2a7d91f31f1d6ef44175) |
153.0.3,2 03 Aug 2026 18:28:23
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 153.0.3 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0.3/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit 7db661730798f1cab9b58e9b026e94bbb751705b) |
153.0.1,2 27 Jul 2026 18:04:09
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 153.0.1 (rc2)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0.1/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit 7042c53fbf6c9e2395628fc6a03d98c5921cbc56) |
153.0_1,2 16 Jul 2026 18:07:11
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Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: add libm to opus linker flags
some combinations of custom CPUTYPE and compiler require special
linker/compiler flags - try to chase this.
PR: 296825
Reported by: Daniel Toschläger
(cherry picked from commit 81447da5d16d2b4f73b4a04013df62a224737bad) |
153.0,2 15 Jul 2026 21:45:02
    |
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 153.0 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit a7ebcb1cac1314960522604193a74742aa166bff) |
152.0.6,2 13 Jul 2026 20:56:29
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Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt)  |
www/firefox: update to 152.0.6 (rc1)
Release Notes (soon):
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/152.0.6/releasenotes/
(cherry picked from commit 0673b1d8ce0bd86191630f50177c3930ef7b8e98) |