What's new in Firefox 3.6:
* 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* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them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, nox@, miwi@ and all testers
plugins support one of web browsers and can take care of plist (depend on how
you use it) at the same time. I have written a complete document and even show
how it works in the www/firefox/Makefile.webplugins so be sure to read in
there. If there is anything that isn't clear in the document, please feel free
to ask and I will try my best to improvement it.
FYI: GNOME 2.24 depends on this, so it's coming.
BTW: It's based on www/linux-mplayer-plugin/Makefile.npapi with heavy modified.
Approved by: portmgr
on exit [1]
* Use the correct size for a JavaScript object on 64-bit platforms which
will help get the Java plug-in working on those platforms [2]
Test by: mezz [1]
Submitted by: jkim [2]
Obtained from: Firefox trunk [2]
- Remove LIBS= from Makefile to fix "open with application" function. [2] [5]
- Fix component registration for some users. [1] [2] [3]
- Bump PORTREVISION [4]
Obtained from: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351181 [1]
Submitted by: marcus [2]
aspar Chilingarov <nm@web.am> [3]
ahze [4] (I had to submit something)
Reported by: philip and many others [5]
amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE. This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed. The bulk of the move was carried
out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily. We would also like to send a
shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
until we got something that was solid.
Back to GNOME 2.16. This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
to FreeBSD. The standard release notes can be read at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ . But on top of what you will read there,
jylefort and marcus have completed work on a port of HAL to FreeBSD. This
will allow FreeBSD to take advantage of closer hardware interaction such
as auto-mounting CD-ROMs, USB drives, and music players; auto-playing
audio CDs; and managing laptop power consumption.
But where would this all be without our loyal testers and contributors?
Therefore, the FreeBSD GNOME team would like to thank the following users:
Phillip Neumann <pneumann@gmail.com>
tmclaugh
mux
Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
chinsan
Thomas <freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch>
Brian Gruber <knightbg@yahoo.com>
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com>
Andris Raugulis <endrju@null.lv> <endrju@null.lv>
Eric L. Chen <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw>
Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com>
QuiRK on #freebsd-gnome
Shane Bell <decept0@gmail.com>
luigi
sajd on #freebsd-gnome
sat
Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
kaeru on #freebsd-gnome
crsd_ via irc.freenode.org/#FreeBSD-GNOME
Joel Diaz <joeldiaz@mac.com>
Enjoy!
Approved by: portmgr (implicit, kris)
building its own. Some years ago there was a security problem with
zlib-1.2.2 and firefox' configure checks the system's zlib.h to be
1.2.3 or higher.
FreeBSD patched the hole without bumping the version number, which
caused Firefox (and, likely, other Mozilla stuff) to build their own
versions instead (and install their headers).
Maintainers were repeatedly notified -- most recently about a month
ago: <200608091216.00510@aldan>, <200601251926.39246.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>.
Approved by: maintainer timeout
- Add Makefile.common
o A new build/install system for gecko ports, Makefile.common
includes many generic routines and common tasks.
o Fix ld-run-path in all gecko's by using -Wl,-rpath,${moz_libdir}
thus removing the need to have a startup script for ports that
depend on gecko. [2]
o Use system libm, nss, nspr in all gecko ports
- Add bsd.gecko.mk
o This is the predecessor to WITH_MOZILLA=[mozilla|firefox|...]
with a more robust way of detecting a gecko a end user wishs to
use.
o bsd.gecko.mk abstracts the selection of gecko-based backends. It
allows users and porters to support any available gecko backend
without needing to build many conditional tests. ${USE_GECKO} is the
list of backends that your port can handle, and ${GECKO} is set by
bsd.gecko.mk to be the chosen backend. Users set ${WITH_GECKO} to the
list of gecko backends they want on their system.
Port Makefile example:
USE_GECKO=firefox mozilla seamonkey thunderbird
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
.include "${.CURDIR}/../../www/mozilla/bsd.gecko.mk"
End user example:
WITH_GECKO=seamonkey firefox
We highly recommend moving away from using WITH_MOZILLA and switching to
USE/WITH_GECKO.
PR: 89052 [2]
Submitted by: vs [2]
Obtained from: www/firefox
Thanks to: adamw, marcus, and mezz for ideas, bug squashing, and more
sajd from irc.freenode.org/#FreeBSD-Gnome for
pointing out many bugs
extensions (in particular typeaheadfind breaks Find [go figure]). It is
safer to use a specific list of extensions with Firefox 1.0.x. It looks
like they've made this better in 1.5, and set a reasonable default list of
extensions.
Basically, we're back to the previous 1.0.7_1,1 set of extensions with the
addition of negotiateauth.
Reported by: many
- Add Java 5 plugins support. [1]
- Use system's libm (/usr/src/lib/msun), nss, nspr and etc. Also, do
not extract those. Better explain, use external dependencies. [1]
- Teach firefox-config and *.pc files for nspr that will making other
third apps to buildable like epiphany, vlc-devel's mozilla plugins
and etc. Have been tested with full GNOME 2.11.x build too.
- Add four patches: [1]
patch-bugzilla243151:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243151
patch-jsosdep:
Fix the FreeBSD define
patch-oji-threads:
64-bit wide pthread_t
patch-xptcinvoke_x86_64_linux:
Setting a possibly uninitialized variable (value).
- Fix a crash that can occur using gtk+-2.7 and possibly 2.6.10 when closing
windows. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3002 [2]
- Get rid of FIREFOX and FF_VER, best to use PORTNAME and PORTVERSION
varibles that are arleady exist and lesser complicate.
- Change all hardcore of 'firefox' to PORTNAME.
- Change a manual loop for patch all.js to find(1), so we can sleep
on it.
Submitted by: mi [1], marcus [2]
Reviewed by: my team, FreeBSD GNOME Team.
Tested by: many
sanitizing each users' home directory when starting Firefox. This should
make upgrades much more painless.
PR: 75816
Submitted by: Jose M Rodriguez (freebsd) <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
