> >   --enable-shared-js \
>
> Yes, that is the trigger

I'm not sure what that buys me, obviously not the javascript plugin!  
It just seemed like a good idea.  Maybe not so much.  >8-[

> Paul, if you had a working graphical browser, I would tell you to
> google :-)

Well, as I told you, it'd be hard to find a box around here that doesn't
have two or more running systems on it.  I just never would have looked!
In the past I've found it non-trivial to find the sources I need from
Mozilla, as opposed to the OSUOSL down the highway.  Even if I were a
developer willing to suck down the whole current development tree with
mercurial, that wouldn't be what I need.  Thanks for demonstrating it
may be easier than I'd experienced in the past.

> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c64aa77208a6

And with that I'm happy to report it built successfully!  8-)  It was a
near thing though!  I began with 4.5GB of free disk space--after making
room because an earlier attempt did run out!  Somehow I'd overlooked
that little requirement.  It finished with 414MB to spare!  8-o  My
installation binary TGZ file is 68MB!

It did pass an initial "smoke test", but is hardly usable until I get
the javascript plugin compiled!   Errm, 8-10GB?  Dang, I've only got a
9.4GiB partition!  Guess that's another detour. 8-(

> I also worry about your phrase "next one up or down the series" -
> always use the latest, whether you are using regular firefox or
> the esr.

One step at a time, I fear.  I can't keep up with Mozilla--this is 15 on
my "daily driver" (LFS-6.6, BLFS-6.3 mostly).

>
> Yes, using google in a text browser can be "extremely unpleasant", but
> at the risk of conflating two threads I have a practical solution. Use
> the links browser with the framebuffer.

Ahh!  Perhaps finally a reason I should reconsider the framebuffer.

Thank you all for getting me over this hurdle.  FF has always been a bit
of a problem, since I refuse to use their bloated prebuilt binaries.
-- 
Paul Rogers
[email protected]
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)

        

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