Comments on: Freeze for pkgsrc-2010Q3 starting soon

By: blinkkin

blinkkin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:30:51 +0000

Firefox 3.7 supports WebM, but it isn’t released yet (only alpha available). I wouldn’t be surprised if Debian build of Firefox 3.6 have support for WebM – they patch and backport some features in many packages. But getting official support (reporting bugs etc) for that kind of builds is almost impossible.

By: Edward O'Callaghan

Edward O'Callaghan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:49:00 +0000

Firefox 3.whatever it is now works on other platforms with WebM. It would just be nice to have it built like that for DF without any fiddling about.

Cheers,
Edward.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:56:51 +0000

WebM looks to me (after a few seconds of browsing) to only be in nightly builds of not-yet-release Firefox 4. 3.6.2, the most recent version in pkgsrc, doesn’t have an option for it in the pkgsrc Makefile.

You can always build www/firefox yourself if there’s a way to manually patch it in, if you prefer.

By: yiggor

yiggor — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:21:25 +0000

You can watch youtube in the firefox without flash in tinyogg.com.
Just paste URL and push “Convert” button. It convert flash to WebM.
Works fine!

By: Edward O'Callaghan

Edward O'Callaghan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:19:52 +0000

Hey,

Can we turn on WebM in the firefox build so we may watch youtube without flash on DF :) ?

Cheers,
Edward.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:05:20 +0000

If everything works out – it looks like pkgsrc-2010Q3 is planned for release October 1st, and I can’t imagine we’re putting 2.8 out before that.

By: Samuel J. Greear

Samuel J. Greear — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:01:05 +0000

Will we be building this for DragonFly BSD 2.8 release, which is expected to freeze around the 27 or so and release early October?