Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support

Michael Johnson ahze at ahze.net
Wed Jun 15 08:17:42 GMT 2005


On Jun 15, 2005, at 3:37 AM, jannisan at t-online.de wrote:

> So, as there seem no replies to my last mail to be following (which I
> take as no further objections) I don't see a reason why the patch
> shouldn't be commited.
> Some of you don't seem to like Gtk1 but you should try to compile it
> without Gtk2 and XUL, then add a few tuning preferences to  
> about:config

I strongly disagree with adding gtk12 support to any port since gtk12  
is dead.

But will this work with firefox 1.1? see http://www.marcuscom.com: 
8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
for cvs stuff to checkout firefox 1.1alpha from ports/www/firefox

> and you'll see there _really_ is a reason for this patch.
> Here is a better version of the patch, adding the possibility to  
> select
> between Gtk1 and Gtk2 and enabling/disabling XUL.
> Xlib support has been removed because it didn't work out fine (due to
> several GUI bugs).



>
> So, would you please commit the patch?
> (If there are no _real_ reasons against it)
>
> Greetings
> Jan
>
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