[MacPorts] #14783: firefox-x11 vs. firefox(-carbon)

MacPorts trac at macosforge.org
Fri Mar 28 05:13:20 PDT 2008


#14783: firefox-x11 vs. firefox(-carbon)
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  Reporter:  Russell.Stringer.Bell.RIP at gmail.com  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
      Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new                                  
  Priority:  Normal                               |   Milestone:  Port Requests                        
 Component:  ports                                |     Version:  1.6.0                                
Resolution:                                       |    Keywords:  firefox x11 carbon                   
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Comment (by afb at macports.org):

 > 1) Is it possible to make the firefox-x11 port honor the profile(s)
 created by firefox(-carbon) (manually installed dmg from mozilla.org)?
 IINM, firefox-x11 stores this in ~/.mozilla while firefox(-carbon) stores
 this in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox.   Wondering if there is a
 way to get firefox-x11 to load a profile in ~/Library/Application
 Support/Firefox (its extensions, preferences, bookmarks, cache, cookies,
 etc.)

 firefox-x11 will not and should not look in ~/Library, so you'll have to
 migrate those settings yourself. Maybe there could be some support to make
 it easier.

 > 2) Have there been any attempts/progress at getting firefox(-carbon)
 and/or camino into the MacPorts tree?  If compiling firefox(-carbon)
 successfully is too much trouble, how about a binary version (like the
 default variant use_binary used by the abiword port) that simply uses the
 dmg from mozilla.org?

 No such ports yet, but they could be added. But I don't think there's any
 reason to package binaries, so they should build from source code in order
 to have any use ?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14783#comment:1>
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