How to Debianize self built Firefox ?

donnied · 11-11-2008, 07:45 AM

I love Iceweasel and use it all the time. However, recently I have been building Firefox from SVN (because I want to file a bug report on an IPv6 issue I noticed). If I'm building my own Firefox how do I get it to recognize plug-ins? and how do I add the Debian search function?

David the H. · 11-12-2008, 07:50 AM

Firefox looks for plugins in several standard locations, listed here. So it should find them automatically as long as you put them in one of these directories.

I don't know what you mean exactly by a Debian search function, unless you mean the Debian search plug-in that's included in the build. If that's the case, you should be able to grab one from the Mycroft page or something, or make one yourself.

donnied · 11-13-2008, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by David the H.

If that's the case, you should be able to grab one from the Mycroft page or something, or make one yourself.

Wow! I remember looking at the Mycroft project once before and obviously all I remembered about it was that it was named after Sherlock Holmes' brother. This was a really great site.

Getting to the bottom of 'no-script' is found but 'ad-block' and 'flash' aren't make take longer.

Thank you.

donnied · 11-13-2008, 08:16 PM

Code:

#cp /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

got things working.