Installation of Firefox
The configuration of Firefox is
very similar to Mozilla-1.7.8
and hence the options are not discussed. Refer to the Mozilla-1.7.8 instructions for
explanations and additional configuration information.
Compile and install Firefox by
running the following commands:
export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL="1" &&
export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1" &&
export MOZ_PHOENIX="1" &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/firefox-1.0 \
--with-user-appdir=.firefox \
--with-system-zlib \
--with-system-png \
--enable-application=browser \
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 \
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,\
transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,\
gnomevfs,negotiateauth \
--enable-crypto \
--enable-xft \
--enable-xinerama \
--enable-optimize \
--enable-reorder \
--enable-strip \
--enable-cpp-rtti \
--enable-single-profile \
--disable-freetype2 \
--disable-accessibility \
--disable-debug \
--disable-tests \
--disable-logging \
--disable-pedantic \
--disable-installer \
--disable-mailnews \
--disable-ldap \
--disable-composer \
--disable-profilesharing &&
make
You should add the --with-system-jpeg
switch to the configure script if you have libjpeg installed.
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -d /usr/include/firefox-1.0.6/nss &&
cp -Lf dist/private/nss/*.h dist/public/nss/*.h \
/usr/include/firefox-1.0.6/nss
To enable multi-user operation, execute the following as the
root user:
cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6 &&
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD" &&
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="$PWD" &&
./regxpcom &&
./regchrome &&
touch `find . -name *.rdf`
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
You should run /usr/bin/firefox once as the
root user (or any user with write
privileges) to create some necessary additional files in the
/usr hierarchy.
Lastly, unset the build variables from the unprivileged user's
environment:
unset MOZILLA_OFFICIAL &&
unset BUILD_OFFICIAL &&
unset MOZ_PHOENIX
Configuring Firefox
No specific configuration is required as long as the
firefox script is in
the user's path. If Firefox is
installed in a non-standard location, then make a symlink to the
firefox script from
/usr/bin.
Many applications look for netscape when they need to open a
browser. You may make the following symlink for convenience (as the
root user).
ln -v -sf firefox /usr/bin/netscape
For installing various Firefox
plugins, refer to Mozdev's
PluginDoc Project. If you have JDK-1.5.0 already installed, create the
following link as the root user to
utilize the JAVA plugin:
ln -v -s $JAVA_HOME/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so \
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/plugins