FreeBSD Port: www/firefox

[Walter Schwarzenfeld]

On 11.04.2017 19:26, Jan Beich wrote:
> Jakub Lach writes:
>
>> Can firefox 53 be build with gtk2?
>>
>>    File
>> "/usr/obj/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-53.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/configure/options.py",
>> line 366, in get_value
>>      % (val, ', '.join("'%s'" % c for c in self.choices)))
>> mozbuild.configure.options.InvalidOptionError: 'cairo-gtk2' is not one of
>> 'cairo-windows', 'cairo-gtk3', 'cairo-cocoa', 'cairo-uikit',
>> 'cairo-android', 'cairo-gonk'
>> *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
>>                 "gmake -f client.mk build"
>>
> No, it's being phased out[1]. If you can't use GTK3 for some reason make
> your voice heard by replying on upstream mailing list, file bugs or
> triage existing ones.
>
> I'll update www/firefox-esr to 52.1.0 soon which is going to have
> non-default GTK2 option for another year.
>
> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org/msg20523.html
>
> Walter Schwarzenfeld (privately) writes:
>> With gtk3 on it starts after sysctl p1003_1b.sem_nsems_max=512.
>> Please => pkg-message.
> Don't use sem(4), it's deprecated since FreeBSD 9.0. p1003_1b.sem_nsems_max
> doesn't have an effect with the new implementation.
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/201546
>
>> I hope it will starts with gtk2 too. Cause till now, every try with
>> gtk3 I had no Menüitems (that means no Menutext).
> By Menuitems do you mean Context Menu or Menu Bar. The latter is
> disabled by default since Australis but can be easily changed.
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Customize-controls-options-and/Customize-Firefox-controls-buttons-and-toolbars/ta-p/2715#w_turn-on-the-title-bar-menu-bar-or-bookmarks-toolbar
>
> Otherwise, try reproducing in a pristine jail. Maybe there's a stale
> configuration getting in the way.
>
>
Hallo !

Someone provided me in FreeBSD forum a gtk-3.0-settings.ini which is 
working.

Thanks, all is working as expected.

greetings
Walter Schwarzenfeld