www/firefox problems with gtk3 option

[Jan Beich]

Alejandro Estay <alejandro.estay at gmail.com> writes:

> hi, I send you this mail to ask about a problem. When I build firefox with
> GTK3 option(in the meantime i running it with gtk2 option), it build
> successfully, but at run-time, has serious stability problems and several
> plugins are not working(flash, libreoffice, icedtea).

I haven't noticed the regression in time for firefox 34.0 update.
It'll be fixed in firefox 35.0 (around 2015-01-13) or maybe sooner
if a committer steps up.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195559#c7

> I'm using gnome 3 and FreeBSD10.1 RELEASE r275612, on a 8gb ram, core
> i7 3930k based computer, and well configured X.org server.  it's mine
> problem or this option is buggy/broken?

GTK3 in www/firefox isn't polished yet even after backporting a lot of
fixes landed upstream (37.0a1 currently). One can compare look&feel
against GTK2 by installing a uniform theme for both e.g.,

  # use Adwaita (default) Gtk3 theme for Gtk2 apps
  $ pkg install gnome-themes-standard
  $ echo 'gtk-theme-name = "Adwaita"' >>~/.gtkrc-2.0

Or wait a few more releases. At that point the issues affecting your
productivity maybe fixed.

Disclaimer: I do dogfood GTK3 but only as firefox-nightly with nvidia-driver.
            Other X11 drivers maybe more fragile.

>
> greetings

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