Firefox and GTK2

[Jan Beich]

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Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Hey,
>
> Just wondering, is there any way to avoid Firefox depending on gtk2?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

No. Gtk2 is required for Adobe Flash (NPAPI) support[1]. --disable-npapi is
unlikely[2] due to extra maintenance cost unless tested together[3] with
other --disable-* options.

Current www/firefox still supports www/flashplayer (confirmed myself)
despite confusion[4]. According to upstream (linked in bug 1455897) it
will stop around Firefox 73.0 if not postponed until after ESR76.

[1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=gtk2
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455897
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377445
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371159
[4] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/flashplayer-in-recent-www-firefox.65810/