$OpenBSD: README,v 1.5 2020/02/24 13:31:53 ajacoutot Exp $
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If you encounter strange problems relating to bookmarks, downloads,
window placement, toolbars, history, or other settings, it is
recommended that you create a new profile and attempt to
reproduce the problem before filing bugs. To create a new profile,
start Firefox with the -ProfileManager switch, e.g.
firefox -ProfileManager, and click "Create Profile".
If Firefox doesn't start at all, try starting it with -safe-mode
switch, which disables extensions and themes for your session.
Using mailto: links
===================
To enable mailto: links in Firefox to open in your mail program,
you may have to set a mailto protocol handler. Type "about:config"
in Firefox's URL text field. Type "mailto" in the filter. If there
is a string called "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", its value
names the application for mailto URLs. If present, right click,
choose Modify, and enter the path to your mail program, e.g.,
"${LOCALBASE}/bin/thunderbird" or "${LOCALBASE}/bin/kmail" (other
programs may work, but these two have been tested). If absent,
right click, choose New String. Set the name to
"network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" and the value to the path to
your mailer.
Debugging
=========
If you encounter crashes, you might want to build the debug FLAVOR of
this package, and run firefox inside egdb, so that you can gather
debugging logs and traces (for all threads!).
If this is a pledge violation, you should figure out which codepath
in which process leads to calling a forbidden syscall, and which pledge
is missing from the two default sets configured in
security.sandbox.pledge.main and security.sandbox.pledge.content
about:config keys. MOZ_LOG=SandboxPledge:5 should help.
Bug reports without enough information will be ignored.
Note that if you're using NIS or your profile is located on a NFS share,
you might need to add 'getpw' to security.sandbox.pledge.content in
about:config.
If using the amdgpu driver, you might need to add 'ioctl' to
security.sandbox.pledge.content in about:config.
If you're not running sndiod(8) you will need to add 'audio' to
security.sandbox.pledge.main in about:config.
D-BUS
=====
For proper integration with various desktop-oriented components, firefox
needs a session bus instance running.
If you're not running a desktop environment that takes care of it,
refer to /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/dbus to configure your
session startup script to start one.
Without a session bus running, the port is faking one (see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1466593), but GLIB might still try
to spawn one which might lead to a 'proc' pledge violation in the content
process.
HTML5 audio/video support
=========================
For a full multimedia experience, such as playing MP3 audio or MPEG
videos, install the "ffmpeg" package. It will be used at runtime if
firefox finds it.
# pkg_add ffmpeg
WebRTC support
==============
For WebRTC to properly work, it is required to enable audio recording:
# sysctl kern.audio.record=1
It is also required to change the ownership of the video(4) device so that your
regular user can access the webcam device.
# chown youruser /dev/video0
KerberosV support
=================
To use Kerberized Firefox, first manually install the "heimdal" package
and configure the Kerberos client.
Firefox will load the libraries at runtime if required. On OpenBSD, they
are installed in a non-standard location; to allow Firefox to find them,
either set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LOCALBASE}/heimdal/lib in your environment
(possibly via a shell alias or wrapper script if you only want to
set this for Firefox), or modify 'shlib_dirs' in /etc/rc.conf.local.
To instruct Firefox to use Kerberos for specific domains, open
'about:config' and modify the following key:
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris: .example.com
Graphic Acceleration
====================
By default on unices the OpenGL acceleration is disabled. One can enable it by
setting MOZ_ACCELERATED=1 in the environment, or by switching the about:config
layers.acceleration.force-enable knob to true. Check the 'Decision log'
section in about:support to see whether HW_COMPOSITING and OPENGL_COMPOSITING
are enabled.
Similarly, for the rust-based WebRender compositor, it is enabled by setting
MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 in the environment, or by switching the about:config
gfx.webrender.enabled knob to true. Check it is enabled in the 'Features'
section of about:support. For this feature, WebGL2 is necessary, so your
hardware must support at least OpenGL 4.
Check
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Quantum_Render for more details.
