firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> Howard Goldstein <hg at queue.to> writes:
>
>> It's like the cat dragged in firefox2 despite use of 3.5 for actual
>> browsing :(  Is there a good way to resolve these dependencies through
>> firefox3 or 3.5 short of ditching gnome?
>
> Yeah, it's really from the gecko handling.  According to
> Mk/bsd.gecko.mk, I think you could add something like the following to
> make.conf to do what you need:
>
> USE_GECKO= firefox3<->firefox

But it doesn't work, and neither does the formulat actually given in the
makefile.  From checkin comments a few months back, I think this
capability is on hold waiting for xulrunner 1.9.  Don't quote me on
that, though; I don't quite understand some of the mechanisms in use.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/