On January 3, 2019 12:29:34 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 02/01/2019 22:45, Dale wrote:
I changed some USE flags. I figure that is one thing that would make
Firefox different from say the average user who just downloads Firefox
from the website.
Is there a reason you don't want to try the firefox-bin package I
meantion in my previous post?
That will be if I can't get a source build to work. Thing is, I won't
be surprised if it does the same thing. I suspect this is a bug related
to some permission issue or something related to it within Firefox
itself. I've wondered if I should allow Firefox to store the files in
its own download directory and then move them after it is completed. I
may try that as well.
Long term tho, I do prefer building from source. It's sort of why I
like Gentoo. ;-) It's on the list of options tho. It would eliminate
any local build configs too. It is a good idea to at least test it. I
may try that next. If it still does it, it isn't me for sure. It's
Firefox itself.
I agree it's a good idea to try the bin. Also perhaps to try to to back to
as vanilla USE flags as possible. IIRC, my only deviances from the default
USE flags are to disable pulseaudio and enable clang (though that was only
recently after the announcement about how it was supposed to improve
performance so much, and was to become the mozilla-preferred method).
Fortunately, at least Firefox builds relatively quickly, unlike chromium
(~40 min vs ~2.5h on my machine).
Dale
:-) :-)
