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