#14783: firefox-x11 vs. firefox(-carbon) --------------------------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: Russell.Stringer.Bell.RIP@gmail.com | Owner: macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Requests Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: | Keywords: firefox x11 carbon --------------------------------------------------+------------------------- Comment (by afb@macports.org):
1) Is it possible to make the firefox-x11 port honor the profile(s) created by firefox(-carbon) (manually installed dmg from mozilla.org)? IINM, firefox-x11 stores this in ~/.mozilla while firefox(-carbon) stores this in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox. Wondering if there is a way to get firefox-x11 to load a profile in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox (its extensions, preferences, bookmarks, cache, cookies, etc.)
firefox-x11 will not and should not look in ~/Library, so you'll have to migrate those settings yourself. Maybe there could be some support to make it easier.
2) Have there been any attempts/progress at getting firefox(-carbon) and/or camino into the MacPorts tree? If compiling firefox(-carbon) successfully is too much trouble, how about a binary version (like the default variant use_binary used by the abiword port) that simply uses the dmg from mozilla.org?
No such ports yet, but they could be added. But I don't think there's any reason to package binaries, so they should build from source code in order to have any use ? -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14783#comment:1> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS