Firefox and GTK2

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

On 6/27/19 6:30 PM, Jan Beich wrote:
> (CC'ing public list. See http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate )
> 
> Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
[snip]
> 
> 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/
> 

Thanks for the info. Do you think we could switch to libcanberra-gtk3 
like the attached patch?

Steve
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