Re: pkg/55203 (pkgsrc firefox-75.0 patch has suspicious chunk)

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55203; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: maya%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/55203 (pkgsrc firefox-75.0 patch has suspicious chunk)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:31:19 +0900

 > Synopsis: pkgsrc firefox-75.0 patch has suspicious chunk
  :
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Stale problem, fortunately found a much better workaround for our multiprocess firefox problem which doens't involve version-specific-editing! let me know if there are still problems and I misunderstood it.
 
 Ths PR was not intended to point out about
 "multiprocess problem" (i.e. browser.tabs.remote.autostart)
 but "seems to have the same settings in different lines."
 
 pkgsrc/www/firefox 82.0 still has fowlloing lines:
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 % grep -n autoDisableScopes /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox.js
 23:pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 15);
 826:pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 11);
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 so I'd rather suggest again:
 > I think it's better for readability to prepare pkgsrc specific
 > preference files to override defaults, rather than patching
 > the original firefox.js.
 
 as debian/ubuntu do:
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.bionic/view/head:/debian/vendor-firefox.js
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.bionic/view/head:/debian/vendor-gre.js
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui