On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:59:53 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone away from large > > > monolithic builds to linking to local system libraries. Not recommended! > > > > > > Dan > > > > Ah, good point. But I should be able to do the same thing from with > > "preference" somewhere, I suspect. > > A Pale Moon user here. We get the same warnings about not building > Pale Moon with system libs (item 5 > https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=20885 ). Since PM is a > Firefox fork, it inherits a lot of the same behaviour. I notice that > doing "emerge -pv firefox" shows the following default USE flags... > > system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent > system-libvpx system-sqlite system-webp > > Over-riding them in package.use, that should prevent the problems.
I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to security and performance comparisons. What is the recommended way to install in Gentoo? I noticed the palemoon overlay has ebuilds for source and binary options. Would they differ in performance terms on an old AMD powered laptop?
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