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Old August 25th, 2005 Top | #1
 
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Has anyone tried building Mozilla or Firefox from their open source?
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yep

cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
make install clean

done


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That'd be on FreeBSD using the ports tree. Did it here as well, many times.
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yep same as above and emerge mozilla-firefox
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Default Re: building Mozilla and Firefox

Originally Posted by Geffy
yep

cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
make install clean

done
Ditto ^^
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Anyone done it on Windows? Just out of interest

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hrmm build from source or 4.5mb binary download.... which to choose


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Default Re: building Mozilla and Firefox

Originally Posted by Khayman
Anyone done it on Windows? Just out of interest
I attempted to once .. I can't remember now but I think I did finally get it. I've also done it on OS X. Oh and Mozilla not Firefox if that matters.

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