Iceweasel: Unofficial Firefox port on HaikuDepot

3dEyes · March 17, 2025, 11:55am

I checked, it’s all about branding. If you build with original name and specify the original branding (thunderbird), then installing extensions works fine.
PS: I need to think about how to properly trick out the site with addons )

Begasus · March 17, 2025, 11:58am

The way you mentioned downloading it and save/copy this to /boot/home/config/settings/Mozilla/Firefox/*****.default-default/extensions worked fine also, maybe handy if people are looking for a way to install it. +1

3dEyes · March 17, 2025, 12:00pm

There are many options to set manually, but my goal is to make the only correct option work

Duda · March 17, 2025, 1:39pm

Is waterfox using the skylake (likely avx/avx2) optimizations in 6.5.5? There is a dramatic performance difference in AMD ryzen/Skylake CPUs in two computers i run haiku beta5 (no nightly) in contrast to iceweasel, and now i am able to abuse the browser, although it starts to have slowdowns and you have to restart it after a while (doesn’t bothers me much). Crashes have reduced significantly in waterfox compared to iceweasel too.

3dEyes · March 17, 2025, 2:07pm

github.com

haikuports/haikuports/blob/master/www-client/waterfox/additional-files/mozconfig#L50


      
          export MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING=
          
          # Linker
          ac_add_options --disable-lto
          ac_add_options --enable-linker=lld
          export LD="lld"
          export LDFLAGS="-fuse-ld=lld -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--undefined-version"
          
          # Optimize
          ac_add_options --enable-jit
          ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-march=x86-64 -mfpmath=sse -mprfchw -msse3 -mcx16 -msahf -mtune=skylake -O3 -w"
          ac_add_options --enable-release
          ac_add_options --enable-rust-simd
          ac_add_options RUSTC_OPT_LEVEL=3
          export RUSTC_OPT_LEVEL=3
          export RUSTFLAGS="$RUSTFLAGS -Ctarget-cpu=x86-64"
          
          # Debug
          ac_add_options --disable-debug
          ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
          ac_add_options --disable-debug-js-modules

Duda · March 17, 2025, 2:51pm

Awesome! Keep the good work, it has been very valuable!

3dEyes · March 17, 2025, 11:30pm

@Begasus

Updated the Icedove build:

fixed the problem of installing extensions
fixed the css for the “about” window for dark themes.

Begasus · March 18, 2025, 5:11am

Thanks!! It’s working

Nexus-6 · March 19, 2025, 10:29am

I’ve tried to add the CalDAV served by Disroot to no avail. I get this error

JavaScript error: resource:///modules/DNS.worker.mjs, line 61: Error: Couldn't find libresolv for other; tried: libresolv.9.so,libresolv.so.2,libresolv.so
console.warn: Calendar: "[CalICSProvider] Could not detect calendar using method attemptDAVLocation - resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calProviderDetectionUtils.sys.mjs:17: AuthFailedError - DetectionError@resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calProviderDetectionUtils.sys.mjs:17:1\n@resource:///modules/calendar/utils/calProviderDetectionUtils.sys.mjs:28:7\nattemptDAVLocation@resource:///modules/CalICSProvider.sys.mjs:243:13\n"

We don’t seem to have libresolv, any thought?

3dEyes · March 19, 2025, 12:53pm

This functionality in Haiku is supposed to be in libnetwork. Try create symlink libresolv.9.so in the non-packages/lib directory that references to libnetwok.so. Just for the experiment.

Nexus-6 · March 19, 2025, 2:06pm

Naaah I can’t believe it works!

donn · March 19, 2025, 2:27pm

Really? I mean, I don’t entirely doubt it - in my short experience with GTK i didn’t notice that particular shortcoming, but keyboard input was awfully limited. It’s just … well, isn’t this an example of why GTK is a dead end?

Begasus · March 19, 2025, 2:29pm

I’m not the guy to ask switched to KDE for most of the other things, just for these things it’s easier(*) to get this working with GTK I guess (eg no qtwebengine for Qt6 being one of them, and it’s not a trivial task to get that done).

waddlesplash · March 19, 2025, 2:29pm

This is a limitation of the Wayland compatibility layer for Haiku’s keymap handling, not of GTK itself.

3dEyes · March 20, 2025, 12:05pm

Floorp Browser: https://floorp.app/

ninos · March 20, 2025, 12:31pm

Is Floorp also available in HaikuDepot?

3dEyes · March 20, 2025, 12:40pm

Not yet, I think I will finish it tomorrow.

PS: Done, already in HaikuDepot.

ArDrakho · March 21, 2025, 7:04am

I never used Icedove, since I have not used Debian since early-mid 90s and on other Linux versions…I usually used Thunderbird. So, Icedove installed easily and I quickly setup my four e-mail accounts…copied the latest Local Folders directories from my main Thunderbird instance on ZetaOS. Voila! In e-mail business…less than 10 minutes. Awesome work…thanks!!

3dEyes · March 21, 2025, 7:37am

This is Thunderbird, only under the name Icedove

Nexus-6 · March 21, 2025, 11:14am

I have a n issue with every single extension. If it has a GUI, it shows but I’m unable to click for example in DarkReader or DeepL.
The GUI seems to detect the pointer but does not detect the click, in the screenshots below you can see that the gear on the top right side of “window” detects the mouse hover but not the click.

Is it just me? Anyone one else with the same issue?

EDIT: it seems that the mouse click is captured by the underlying HTML page, instead. Some extensions support the TAB key to cycle through the UI elements others don’t like DarkReader.
Sometimes the click is correctly processed but it’s 1 out 15/20 times.