Firefox 4 - Beta

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:48:51 +0100
Beat Gaetzi <beat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 05.03.2011 12:48, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there someone who likes to go for the Firefox 4 in ports? 
> > 
> > maybe into www/firefox-devel?
> > 
> > 
> > Firefox 4 is in the State "beta 12" - what means it is the release
> > candidate.
> 
> Firefox 4 is available for FreeBSD for a long time in our development
> repository. Please have a look at this page for more information about
> the freebsd-gecko repository:
> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/
> 
> Firefox 4 lives at:
> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/www/firefox-devel/
> 
> We are not going to commit a Firefox 4 Beta or RC to the ports tree. If
> you like to test Firefox 4 use the one from the development repository
> at your own risk.
> 

If you really want to try the 4.0b12 out and are running linux emulation
and have linux-firefox installed then it's trivial.

Download firefox-4.0b12.tar.bz2, unpack it somewhere convenient, edit
firefox/firefox and change moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/firefox-4.0b12
to moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/linux-firefox.  You can then start
firefox/firefox and it just works.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn