patches applied to mozilla-release/config need to also be applied to
mozilla-release/js/src/config and vice versa, otherwise the build will fail with
a message like
TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | check-sync-dirs.py | build file copies are not in sync
Reported by: Andrei <az@azsupport.com>, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com>
Tested by: Andrei <az@azsupport.com>, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com>
- Add temporary workaround to fix detection of all plugins until we have
found a proper solution for this problem. The workaround use the
run-mozilla.sh script to start Firefox as it was the default prior to
the Firefox 7 release. [2]
- Bump PORTREVISION.
PR: ports/159606 [1]
Submitted by: Dmitry <smallcms AT gmail.com> [1]
Discussed with: flo@ [2]
- Fix system-wide plugin directory detection as Firefox 7 no longer uses
run-mozilla.sh to start an therefore our patch to set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
is useless. [1]
Submitted by: poyopoyo AT puripuri.plala.or.jp [1]
patch-xpcom__threads__nsThreadManager.cpp.
- Restore r1.4 of patch-js-src-Makefile.in which was accidentally reverted
with the last update.
- Bump PORTREVISION.
Submitted by: h h <aakuusta AT gmail.com>
- register build conflict with spidermonkey until the firefox build failure
can be fixed [2]
PR: ports/159709 [1]
ports/159831 [2]
Submitted by: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru> [1]
The cairo dependancy is usually added by bsd.gecko.mk, but for firefox we need a
spcific version.
PR: ports/158610
Submitted by: Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>
- Fix leftover from Firefox 3.x in MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH [2]
- Bump PORTREVISION
Submitted by: Denny Lin <dennylin93 AT hs.ntnu.edu.tw> [1],
Jan Henrik Sylvester <me AT janh.de> [2]
- Add PGO option to enable Profile-Guided Optimization [1].
PR: ports/132231 [1] (based on)
Submitted by: lioux@ [1]
Thanks to: andreast@, Anonymous <swell.k AT gmail.com>, decke@, jsa@,
swills@ and all the testers for their feedback!
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* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them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
