I am forwarding this ticket because firefox-x11 has no maintainer, and
because I wonder whether anyone has installed firefox-x11 and has it
working without the error I report. I searched for tickets on this and
found none.
#14901: firefox-x11 does not provide file-selection browsers
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: High | Milestone: Port Bugs
Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: x11 www ui |
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The X11 port of firefox (2.0.0.13) does not include the code to allow the
user to change preferences which require a file-browser box to "Save Link
As" or to select local files/directories such as the default download
directory.
To test this go to Edit->Preferences->Main and select the Browse button
next to "Save files to" in the "Downloads" section. On my 10.5.2 PPC
system, nothing happens when the Browse button is selected.
I recall from my own attempts to build SeaMonkey for Mac X11 that I could
not get it to link in the gnome-vfs components (listed as required in the
port file). It always insisted on trying to link in the Carbon
frameworks. My Seamonkey attempts would eventually crash after repeated
attempts to call the file browser. So far firefox-x11 just does nothing.
Other functions work fine so far as I can tell--although the copy
highlight does not work the way it should (as Mozilla X11 version 1.7.13
and Linux Firefox 2.0.0.13 do). It should copy the selection directly to
the X11 Clipboard so that a middle mouse click will past the selection.
Instead it requires that the selection be copied using a menu or keyboard
command. That makes me believe that some of the X11 UI bits are missing
from the linking.
I wonder if anyone of the folks who have recently fixed problems in the
port file have tried to use the port (beyond just assuring it builds,
installs, and opens correctly).
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14901>
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