Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:23:19 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit firefox Message-ID: <1123687400.14039.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200508100427.j7A4RcKi088850@blue.virtual-estates.net> References: <200508100427.j7A4RcKi088850@blue.virtual-estates.net>
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--=-oOJQ16hEwbusaNV/Twz7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 00:27 -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > After a rather ungratifying exchange with some of the prominent Mozilla > project members, here is my conclusion. >=20 > The "old" firefox-1.x is not expected to run on amd64. Lucky you, if it > does. The code for the branch was forked a long time ago (circa April > 2004, AFAIK) and only "security fixes" get merged into it. >=20 > Do not bother submitting patches -- you will be yelled at > unceremoniously for wasting developers' time with patches against an > obsolete version and accused of other misdemeanors. >=20 > The upcoming version of the browser -- "Deer Park", a.k.a. 1.5 -- > currently in alpha2, is supposed to come off the trunk of their > cvs tree, which already contains a lot of bug-fixes, including > 64bit-specific ones, but these will NOT be merged into the firefox-1.x > branch. >=20 > Those fixes aren't great -- "long", for example, is used in lieu of > "intptr_t" (MSVC is not C99-compliant, so screw you), but they just > happen to work for now. >=20 > I think, we need to concentrate on porting this new Deer Park version > (www/deerpark ?) in preferance of the current (www/firefox). Although > alpha, it, apparently, has a better chance of working right on our > "unusual" set of platforms. >=20 > The 1.5 release is expected in September. >=20 > Those wanting a stabler browser right now ought to use linux-firefox, > opera, or konqueror. >=20 > Comments? See the list archives. A port of 1.1 already exists at http://www.marcuscom.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports. Joe >=20 > -mi >=20 > P.S. I have a seemingly working firefox right now on FreeBSD/amd64. > I even have some extensions loaded. But installing the Forecastfox > extension hoses it reliably, which does not happen with the 32-bit > versions (neither linux-firefox on amd64, nor native on i386). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-oOJQ16hEwbusaNV/Twz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC+hvnb2iPiv4Uz4cRAluIAJ9KmKgGt2KlIOSoq7MQ7DTvX2GvqwCaAqRV 06LtrEOByLYiBQgsR3msfpo= =fxvI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oOJQ16hEwbusaNV/Twz7--
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