leaner and meaner www/firefox

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Aug 3 05:30:18 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 01:13 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > Mikhail T. wrote:
> > > Attached are the diffs to make www/firefox build without its own jpeg,
> > > zlib, dbm, nspr, and nss using respected ports or FreeBSD's main
> > > libraries (-lz for zlib and -lc for dbm) instead.
> > 
> > I like this idea a lot, and I hope that it gets pursued. If there is similar 
> > action that can happen for thunderbird, that would be great too.
> 
> It seems like something is still missing, though -- the browser refuses
> to recognize any Certificate Authorities. I guess, some important data
> file does not get installed by my version. Any idea?
> 

CAs are stored in libnssckbi.so.  Looks like both Firefox and NSS
install comparable versions of this file.  At a quick glance, I can't
see why CAs would not be known using the NSS port.

Joe

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