| Port details |
- firefox Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
- 142.0,2 www
 =440       142.0,2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2004-02-11 07:17:08
- Last Update: 2025-08-11 19:42:35
- Commit Hash: 17fcfde
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- 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.
- Dependency lines:
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- 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.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1754937451
SHA256 (firefox-142.0.source.tar.xz) = 2808e1f10f3b6c593f96f3745a55d12c98107886daef00f1e354c24203a64b0f
SIZE (firefox-142.0.source.tar.xz) = 638180600
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:
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- nspr>=4.32 : devel/nspr
- nss>=3.114 : security/nss
- icu>=76.1 : devel/icu
- 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
- py311-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py311
- 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>=0.28.0 : devel/rust-cbindgen
- rust>=1.88.0 : 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
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- 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
- libevent.so : devel/libevent
- libffi.so : devel/libffi
- libgraphite2.so : graphics/graphite2
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libicui18n.so : devel/icu
- 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
- This port is required by:
- for Build
-
- www/p5-Firefox-Marionette
-
Deleted ports which required this port:
- for Run
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- www/browsh
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Deleted ports which required this port:
- * - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-142.0,2:
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.
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