Firefox is a stand-alone browser based on the Mozilla codebase.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/41.0/source/firefox-41.0.source.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 81324515c2f562db8c4800ebafaa5d25
Download size: 153 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.0 GB (77 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 39 SBU
alsa-lib-1.0.29, GTK+-2.24.28, NSS-3.20, UnZip-6.0, yasm-1.3.0, and Zip-3.0
ICU-55.1, libevent-2.0.22, libvpx-1.4.0, and SQLite-3.8.11.1
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.
With Firefox-31.0 and later
versions, you must have installed Openssl before Python 2 or the build system will quickly
fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name
HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading
from an older version of Firefox), check if /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists.
If it does not, reinstall Python-2.7.10
(after installing OpenSSL-1.0.2d. The latest version of
any currently maintained
version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed.
cURL-7.44.0, dbus-glib-0.104, Doxygen-1.8.10, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 (with gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 and gst-libav-1.4.5 at runtime), libnotify-0.7.6, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, PulseAudio-6.0, startup-notification-0.12, Valgrind-3.10.1, Wget-1.16.3, Wireless Tools-29, Hunspell, liboauth, and libproxy, and Rust
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/firefox
The configuration of Firefox is
accomplished by creating a mozconfig
file containing the desired configuration options. A default
mozconfig is created below. To see
the entire list of available configuration options (and an
abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also
wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired
options. Create the file by issuing the following command:
cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
# If desired, you can reduce the number of cores used, e.g. to 1, by
# uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus
# If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify
# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player;
# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
# in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
# uncomment the following one:
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0
# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
# Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier
# From firefox-40, using system cairo causes firefox to crash
# frequently when it is doing background rendering in a tab.
#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir
EOF
Compile Firefox by issuing the following commands:
If you are compiling Firefox in
chroot, make sure you have $SHELL
environment variable set or prepend SHELL=/bin/sh.
make -f client.mk
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &&
chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/firefox-41.0 &&
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &&
ln -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins \
/usr/lib/firefox-41.0/browser
make -f client.mk
...: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use
of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration
settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and
setup parameters.
make -C firefox-build-dir install: This runs make install in firefox-build-dir.
ln -sfv ...
/usr/bin/firefox: This puts a symbolic link to the
firefox executable in
your PATH variable.
mkdir -p
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: This checks that
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins exists.
ln -sv ...
/usr/lib/firefox-41.0/browser: This command creates
a symbolic link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. It's not really needed,
as Firefox checks /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by default, but the
symbolic link is made to keep all the plugins installed in one
folder.
If you did not add the --disable-webm
option to your mozconfig, your
Firefox can play most YouTube
videos without the need for the flash plugin. To enable this, go to
http://www.youtube.com/html5 and
click on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled).
If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE
you may like to create a firefox.desktop file so that Firefox appears in the panel's menus. If you
didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig change the
StartupNotify line to false. As the root user:
mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &&
mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps &&
cat > /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Firefox Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=firefox %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=firefox
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/xhtml+xml;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
EOF
ln -sfv /usr/lib/firefox-41.0/browser/icons/mozicon128.png \
/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png
/usr/lib/firefox-41.0
Last updated on 2015-09-24 13:34:11 -0700