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Firefox-59.0. I wish they still packaged release tarballs as firefox-NN.N and offered .tar.xz, but they don't. Please note that system cairo can no longer be used, and the libraries now install into an unversioned /usr/lib/firefox/ directory.

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<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
<!ENTITY day "12"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY day "13"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "03"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2018">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
<!ENTITY releasedate "March 12th, &year;">
<!ENTITY releasedate "March 13th, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!-- x.y|development -->
@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
<!ENTITY gstreamer-dl "https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src">
<!ENTITY kernel-dl "https://www.kernel.org/pub">
<!ENTITY mozilla-http "https://archive.mozilla.org/pub">
<!ENTITY mozilla-hg "https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/archive/">
<!ENTITY pymodules-dl "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source">
<!ENTITY sourceforge-dl "https://downloads.sourceforge.net">

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</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
-->
<listitem>
<para>March 13th, 2018</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[ken] - Update to firefox-59.0 (security fix). Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;10507">#10507</ulink>. Please
note that the libraries are now installed in an unversioned
<filename class="directory">/usr/lib/firefox/</filename>
directory.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>March 12th, 2018</para>
<itemizedlist>

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<!-- Chapter 43 -->
<!ENTITY chromium-version "64.0.3282.186">
<!ENTITY epiphany-version "3.26.6">
<!ENTITY firefox-version "58.0.2">
<!ENTITY firefox-version "59.0">
<!ENTITY flashplayer-version "27.0.0.187">
<!ENTITY qupzilla-version "2.2.5">
<!ENTITY seamonkey-version "2.49.2">

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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!--
<!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
-->
<!ENTITY firefox-hgversion "c61f5f5ead48c78a80c80db5c489bdc7cfaf8175">
<!-- use tinyurl to get a much shorter link for the wget example -->
<!ENTITY firefox-tiny "https://tinyurl.com/firefox-59-0-tar-bz2">
<!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-hg;&firefox-hgversion;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "a64c6cd4785ba1ae094faae16105dbf2">
<!ENTITY firefox-size "237 MB">
<!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "2dfc59e6adccea41b5fb87c2d9456d4e">
<!ENTITY firefox-size "291 MB">
<!-- NB with stylo, much of the build uses rust, and therefore cargo files.
But when building 58.0 on rustc-1.22.1 the extra files, if any, seem to be minimal -->
<!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "7.4 GB (152 MB installed) without tests">
<!ENTITY firefox-time "20 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
<!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "7.5 GB (157 MB installed) without tests">
<!ENTITY firefox-time "21 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
]>
<sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
@ -74,17 +80,17 @@
<note>
<para>
The build times for this version of firefox (using stylo, the new CSS
rendering code) seem to vary widely between different machines. On one
old Intel i3 the build took considerably longer. The reason for this is
not understood. A build with stylo disabled is typically 1 or 2 SBU
quicker and needs 0.8GB less disk space.
</para>
<para>
Although upstream prefer to use <application>PulseAudio</application>,
for the moment <application>Alsa</application> can still be used. Both
may need runtime configuration to get sound working.
Upstream now only provide tarballs named with 40-character mercurial
commit hashes.
<!--
This will untar to <emphasis>mozilla-release-&firefox-hgversion;/</emphasis>,
but it will build firefox-&firefox-version; - you may prefer to rename the
-->
You may prefer to rename the
downloaded tarball, either to firefox-&firefox-version;.tar.bz2 or to
mozilla-release-&firefox-hgversion;.tar.bz2, or to use wget, e.g.
<screen><userinput>wget -c &firefox-tiny; \
-O mozilla-release-&firefox-hgversion;.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
</para>
</note>
@ -101,9 +107,8 @@
<note>
<para>
The tarball <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz</emphasis>
will untar to <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;</emphasis> directory.
It will also reset the permissions of the current directory to 0755 if you
Extracting the tarball
will reset the permissions of the current directory to 0755 if you
have permission to do that. If you do this in a directory where
the sticky bit is set, such
as <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> it will end with error
@ -121,6 +126,21 @@ tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Do not untar as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user
in a directory where the sticky bit is set - that will unset it.
</para>
<para>
The build times for this version of firefox (using stylo, the new CSS
rendering code) seem to vary widely between different machines. On one
old Intel i3 with only 4GB of RAM the build took
<emphasis>considerably</emphasis> longer. The reason for this is
not understood. A build with stylo disabled is typically 1 or 2 SBU
quicker and needs 0.8GB less disk space.
</para>
<para>
Although upstream prefer to use <application>PulseAudio</application>,
for the moment <application>Alsa</application> can still be used. Both
may need runtime configuration to get sound working.
</para>
</note>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Firefox Dependencies</bridgehead>
@ -159,23 +179,7 @@ tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
be out of date or contain security holes.
</para>
</note>
<!--
<note>
<para>
With <application>Firefox-31.0</application> and later versions, you
must have installed <application>Openssl</application> before
<application>Python 2</application> 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
<filename>/usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so</filename>
exists. If it does not, reinstall <xref linkend="python2"/> (after
installing <xref linkend="openssl"/>). The latest version of any
<emphasis>currently maintained</emphasis> version of Openssl should be
satisfactory if already installed.
</para>
</note>
-->
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<xref linkend="curl"/>,
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<literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
# You can change the number of non-rust jobs by setting a valid number
# of cores in this option, but when rust crates are being compiled
# jobs will be scheduled for all the online CPU cores.
# jobs will be scheduled for all the available CPU cores.
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
# If you have installed dbus-glib, comment out this line:
@ -291,10 +295,8 @@ ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
# From firefox-40, using system cairo caused firefox to crash
# frequently when it was doing background rendering in a tab.
# This appears to again work in firefox-56
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
# In firefox-59.0 system cairo breaks the build, so comment it.
#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
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<screen role="root"><userinput>./mach install &amp;&amp;
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</userinput></screen>
ln -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox/browser/</userinput></screen>
<!--
<para>
Set environment variables back to their values:
@ -405,13 +407,13 @@ unset CFLAGS_HOLD CXXFLAGS_HOLD</userinput></screen>
</para>
<para>
<command>mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</command>: This checks
that <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>
<command>mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</command>: This ensures
that <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/</filename>
exists.
</para>
<para>
<command>ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</command>:
<command>ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox/browser</command>:
This command creates a symbolic link to <filename
class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>. It's not really
needed, as <application>Firefox</application> checks <filename
@ -532,7 +534,7 @@ ln -sfv /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser/icons/mozicon128.png \
</seg>
<seg>
Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and
helper modules installed in /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;
helper modules installed in /usr/lib/firefox
</seg>
<seg>
/usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; and /usr/lib/mozilla