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Firefox 4.0b7 is out. I am compiling it now. First though, I had to update cairo and pixman. Cairo was easy enough modifying the slackbuild, but pixman was a peta. I couldn't find a slackbuild, so I had to really modify one. It worked, though, building pixman first, then cairo.
The FF build has been going for about 10 minutes, so I know it has a way to go. I just couldn't wait to do this, so I jumped in head first!
Well - its alive! And, it seems to be well. Time now to just navigate and see how well it renders pages and if there is any speed increase. My extensions seem to be working still, along with the noia extreme theme. Happy so far!
So if anyone wants to try out firefox 4, theres no need to compile it, furthermore theres no need to compile and upgrade additional packages.
PS. It would be better to backup ~/.mozilla before upgrading to it.
It will save you the trouble if you ever want to revert to the stable 3.6.x series at any point.
Last edited by sahko; 11-11-2010 at 11:01 AM.
Reason: typos
Two things I've noticed so far:
1. The progress bar at the bottom is now missing.
2. I can't open a blank tab anymore from the right side of an existing tab.
Can't find anyway to fix either just yet. Other than that, it seems to be a great release towards final.
Fixed the progress bar. It was removed in b7 and replaced with an add-on bar. Had to download an extension called Status-4-Evar to add progress functionality. Now to see if I can't find out why the little plus sign is missing from the right side of the tabs.
Mlangdn, my firefox compile ( using -current slackbuild ) indicates that my cairo should be at => 1.10 but the cairo site only has 1.8.8 as latest ( which I have from my gsb install ). Can you give some more info on your build in relation to this?
I logged in as root and all was well so I assumed this was something to do with my profile - took the plunge and started with a fresh profile ( after saving bookmarks, addons and certs ). All is well now after a bit of work.
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