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Port details on branch 2025Q2
firefox Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
137.0_2,2 www on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 137.0_2,2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-04-01 20:48:30
Last Update: 2025-04-01 20:46:58
Commit Hash: b4bc35e
Also Listed In: wayland
License: not specified in port
WWW:
https://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advanced features: o Popup Blocking o Tabbed Browsing o Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS) o Extensions o Themes o FastFind o Improved Security
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
Dependency lines:
  • firefox>0:www/firefox
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • firefox-esr
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/www/firefox/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install www/firefox
  • pkg install firefox
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: firefox
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1743096872 SHA256 (firefox-137.0.source.tar.xz) = 1ec47e2f83ccb80c0133f171091b5669c7ffdf7b86051fc85c0f915b7bcba91d SIZE (firefox-137.0.source.tar.xz) = 593165900

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. nspr>=4.32 : devel/nspr
  2. nss>=3.109 : security/nss
  3. icu>=76.1 : devel/icu
  4. libevent>=2.1.8 : devel/libevent
  5. harfbuzz>=10.1.0 : print/harfbuzz
  6. graphite2>=1.3.14 : graphics/graphite2
  7. png>=1.6.45 : graphics/png
  8. dav1d>=1.0.0 : multimedia/dav1d
  9. libvpx>=1.15.0 : multimedia/libvpx
  10. py311-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py311
  11. v4l_compat>0 : multimedia/v4l_compat
  12. autoconf2.13 : devel/autoconf2.13
  13. nasm : devel/nasm
  14. yasm : devel/yasm
  15. zip : archivers/zip
  16. libc++abi.a : devel/wasi-libcxx19
  17. libc.a : devel/wasi-libc@19
  18. wasi-compiler-rt19>0 : devel/wasi-compiler-rt19
  19. rust-cbindgen>=0.26.0 : devel/rust-cbindgen
  20. rust>=1.85.0 : lang/rust
  21. node : www/node
  22. libnotify>0 : devel/libnotify
  23. jack.h : audio/jack
  24. pulseaudio.h : audio/pulseaudio
  25. sndio.h : audio/sndio
  26. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  27. llvm-config19 : devel/llvm19
  28. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  29. python3.11 : lang/python311
  30. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  31. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  32. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  33. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  34. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  35. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  36. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  37. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  38. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  39. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  40. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  41. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. libpci.so : devel/libpci
  2. ffmpeg>=6.0,1 : multimedia/ffmpeg
  3. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  4. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  5. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  6. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  7. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  8. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  9. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  10. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  11. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  12. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  13. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  2. libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
  3. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  4. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  5. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  6. libffi.so : devel/libffi
  7. libgraphite2.so : graphics/graphite2
  8. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  9. libicui18n.so : devel/icu
  10. libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
  11. libnss3.so : security/nss
  12. libpng.so : graphics/png
  13. libpixman-1.so : x11/pixman
  14. libvpx.so : multimedia/libvpx
  15. libwebp.so : graphics/webp
  16. libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
  17. libdbus-glib-1.so : devel/dbus-glib
  18. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  19. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  20. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  21. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  22. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  23. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  24. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  25. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  26. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  27. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
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Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-137.0_2,2: CANBERRA=off: Sound theme alerts DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...) LIBPROXY=off: Proxy support via libproxy LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations PROFILE=on: Build with profiling support TEST=off: Build and/or run tests ====> Extra cubeb audio backends (OSS is always available) ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support JACK=on: JACK audio server support PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
www_firefox
USES:
tar:xz compiler:c++17-lang cpe elfctl gl gmake gnome iconv llvm:min=17,noexport localbase pkgconfig python:build desktop-file-utils jpeg
pkg-message:
For install:
## Missing features Some features found on Windows, macOS and Linux are not implemented: - Encrypted Media Extensions (requires Widevine CDM binary) - Process sandboxing (requires Capsicum backend) - Reduced memory usage (requires mozjemalloc) - Crash Reporter (requires Google Breakpad and reproducible builds) - WebVR (requires open source runtime) - TCP fast open - `about:networking#networkid` (requires link state notification) ## Audio backend Currently used audio backend can be inspected on `about:support` page. Supported backends and default probing order is as follows: - `pulse-rust` if `pulseaudio` package is installed (PULSEAUDIO option) - `jack` if `jackit` package is installed (JACK option) - `sndio` if `sndio` package is installed (SNDIO option) - `alsa` if `alsa-lib` package is installed (ALSA option) - `oss` (always available) To force a specific backend open `about:config` page and create `media.cubeb.backend` preference. Microphone selection only works in `oss`, `pulse-rust` backends. Other backends are limited to `default` which is usually `/dev/dsp`, so use virtual_oss to reroute microphones from non-default devices. ## Gamepad API Requires evdev(4) joystick support. On FreeBSD 13 and later enable hgame(4) while older versions can use sysutils/iichid or multimedia/webcamd. ## smb:// issues Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly. ## sftp:// Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily setup public key authentication to `remote_host`: $ ssh-keygen $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys" The SSH server on `remote_host` must allow pub key authentication.
Master Sites:
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  1. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/137.0-candidates/build2/source/
  2. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/137.0/source/
  3. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/candidates/137.0-candidates/build2/source/
  4. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/137.0/source/
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Number of commits found: 1

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137.0_2,2
01 Apr 2025 20:46:58
commit hash: b4bc35e3bb2fea3a9084f164f2008fba4b8d0021commit hash: b4bc35e3bb2fea3a9084f164f2008fba4b8d0021commit hash: b4bc35e3bb2fea3a9084f164f2008fba4b8d0021commit hash: b4bc35e3bb2fea3a9084f164f2008fba4b8d0021 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
www/firefox: switch to system icu again

now that 2025Q1 is gone, we don't have to use the bundled icu
anymore

(cherry picked from commit 04391abc4905de9864418737a441543ab1f3f7b2)

Number of commits found: 1