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walterbyrd
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2018 2:50 pm    Post subject: After update normal firefox replaced with developer edition Reply with quote

Also firefox was removed from the menu.

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux fir 4.14.39-calculate #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 4 09:24:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


Running MATE Desktop Environment 1.18.0.

The only way I have to start firefox now is to go to the command line and type:

Code:

$ firefox &


When firefox comes up, I get the developer edition.

Anyway to get normal firefox back?
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2018 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software since this isn't related to Gentoo.
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2018 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like you need the branding (or perhaps -bindist) USE-flag, to use official Mozilla branding (which means you can't distribute binaries off-site.)

Check the output of:
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emerge -pv www-client/firefox
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:

$ emerge -pv www-client/firefox

Local copy of remote index is up-to-date and will be used.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[binary   R    ] www-client/firefox-60.0.1::gentoo  USE="bindist dbus gmp-autoupdate hwaccel system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -eme-free -hardened -jack (-neon) -pulseaudio -screenshot (-selinux) -startup-notification -system-harfbuzz {-test} -wifi" L10N="bg bs cs da de es-AR es-ES es-MX et fi fr hr hu it kk lt lv nl pl pt-BR pt-PT ro ru sk sl sq sr sv uk -ach -af -an -ar -as -ast -az -bn-BD -bn-IN -br -ca -cak -cy -dsb -el -en-GB -en-ZA -eo -es-CL -eu -fa -ff -fy -ga -gd -gl -gn -gu -he -hi -hsb -hy -id -is -ja -ka -kab -km -kn -ko -lij -mai -mk -ml -mr -ms -nb -nn -or -pa -rm -si -son -ta -te -th -tr -uz -vi -xh -zh-CN -zh-TW" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall, 1 binary), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

walterbyrd,

Code:
USE=bindist
gets you the developer edition. You should have a blue icon called Aroura(sp) that runs your firefox.

If you want firefox with the logo and build it yourself, you must set
Code:
USE=-bindist
for firefox.
Thunderbird does something similar.

If you set -bindist globally you will get non-distributable version of other packages too as potentially patent encumbered code will be installed.

Its safe to use -bindist on firefox and or thunderbird. Most of the other things affected by the bindist USE flag need it to be set consistently.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you. I did not know that the firefox developer edition was called "Aurora"

I found the icon, and put it on my toolbar.

I suppose I will just keep using the developer edition. Seems to work okay.

Thank you again.
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