$OpenBSD: README,v 1.1 2015/05/21 06:25:30 ajacoutot Exp $ +----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Running ${FULLPKGNAME} on OpenBSD +----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you encounter strange problems relating to bookmarks, downloads, window placement, toolbars, history, or other settings, it is recommended that you create a new profile and attempt to reproduce the problem before filing bugs. To create a new profile, start Firefox with the -ProfileManager switch, e.g. firefox -ProfileManager, and click "Create Profile". If Firefox doesn't start at all, try starting it with -safe-mode switch, which disables extensions and themes for your session. To disable anti-aliasing (xft) set GDK_USE_XFT=0 in the environment. Using mailto: links =================== To enable mailto: links in Firefox to open in your mail program, you may have to set a mailto protocol handler. Type "about:config" in Firefox's URL text field. Type "mailto" in the filter. If there is a string called "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", its value names the application for mailto URLs. If present, right click, choose Modify, and enter the path to your mail program, e.g., "${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. Plugins ======= Firefox looks for plugins in ~/.mozilla/plugins and ${TRUEPREFIX}/lib/mozilla/plugins. If the environment variable MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH is specified, this location will be overridden. Debugging ========= If you encounter crashes, you might want to build the debug FLAVOR of this package, and run firefox inside gdb, so that you can gather debugging logs and traces (for all threads!). Bug reports without that information will be ignored. Html5 audio/video support ========================= Due to dependencies reasons, you have to manually install some GStreamer packages for a full multimedia experience (ie play MP3 audio and MPEG videos). They will be used at runtime if firefox finds them. # pkg_add gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-libav KerberosV support ================= To use Kerberized Firefox, first manually install the "heimdal" package and configure the Kerberos client. Firefox will load the libraries at runtime if required. On OpenBSD, they are installed in a non-standard location; to allow Firefox to find them, either set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${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