gecko-dev
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html (by mozilla)
svntogit-packages
Automatic import of svn 'packages' repo (read-only mirror) (by archlinux)
| gecko-dev | svntogit-packages | |
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| 78 | 247 | |
| 3,122 | 321 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 12 months ago | |
| Shell | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gecko-dev
Posts with mentions or reviews of gecko-dev.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
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Making Web Component properties behave closer to the platform
You can see how Mozilla tests the compliance of their built-in elements in the Gecko repository (the ok and is assertions are defined in their SimpleTest testing framework). And here's the Web Platform Tests' reflection harness, with data for each built-in element in sibling files, that almost every browser pass.
- Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc -- Never installs on any fresh Linux distro (see comments)
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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
The source is mirrored on GitHub here: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
Code search is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/
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Firefox 113.0, New Features, Updates and Fixes
Yes. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/32c74afbb24dce4b5d...
- -moz-box and -moz-inline-box removed at v113
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Pinch Zoom with Mouse Wheel is too Slow = How to Adjust Zoom Increments?
aWheelInput.mDeltaY looks like the increment setting used for this https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/9033e3e1200acfd4b8f8ae024c215b99d12b97bdTried "mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y" and "mousewheel.with_control.delta_multiplier_y" without much luck.It may have something to do with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138704 although this case is about pinch zoom emulation.
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Why does firefox (at least waterfox) not support H.265?
You could add the feature by writing code to support is - https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html
- A Quarter Century of Mozilla
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
I checked Firefox monorepo, it has over 4x more C++ than Rust.
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Fetched and build the code of the "release" but it's produced Nightly version
Are you leaving steps out or is your OP exhaustive? If you just straight up cloned release and that's it, start all over and follow https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html for your OS
svntogit-packages
Posts with mentions or reviews of svntogit-packages.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-15.
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Cannot update Firefox via terminal
More sanely, just makepkg the official pkgbuild from archlinux extra.
- Refresh rate changes to 120Hz in arch
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Is there a way to install/update arch packages in gnome software?
Packagekit support has been dropped from the gnome-software package https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/d62208b27b99de982318d58d87a9125def07f626
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Arch Linux - News: Git migration announcement
git clone https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages.git --branch packages/$pkgname --single-branch $pkgname
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Distribution Packaged Browsers
For example Arch applies quite a few patches to Chromium.
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svt-av1 1.5.0-1 broke ffmpeg and ab-av1 -crf setting
Yep looks like ffmpeg package needs to be rebuilt against svt-av1 1.5.0. In the meantime you can checkout, build & re-install the ffmpeg pkgbuild locally to fix.
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Is it possible to install gnome 3 on the latest version of arch Linux?
Download the PKGBUILDs from the archlinux svntogit trunk and use makepkg as you'd normally would I guess. Here's the PKGBUILD for gnome-shell v. 3.38.4 for example: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/e93ee10b663dedcebfd8c33fd53b82f642a0a0a8/trunk/PKGBUILD
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Python 3.11 is in the repos now \o/
The old python PKGBUILD from the Arch repos is here, in case anyone wants to build it themselves under the python310 name (with additional minor modifications): https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/855d73921bb8e86820a7731870de335c3c2fa236/trunk/PKGBUILD
- It appears GNOME is in the process of being updated
- GNOME 44 spotted in the repos
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gecko-dev and svntogit-packages you can also consider the following projects:
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
optimus-manager - A Linux program to handle GPU switching on Optimus laptops.
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
zen-kernel - Zen Patched Kernel Sources
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
gse-sound-output-device-chooser - Gnome Shell Extension to show a simple chooser to select Input & Output device based on gnome control center
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
org.chromium.Chromium
datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
lightdm - Login screen using the LightDM framework.
gecko-dev vs chromium
svntogit-packages vs espanso
gecko-dev vs WebKit
svntogit-packages vs optimus-manager
gecko-dev vs Skia
svntogit-packages vs zen-kernel
gecko-dev vs brave-core
svntogit-packages vs gse-sound-output-device-chooser
gecko-dev vs nyxt
svntogit-packages vs org.chromium.Chromium
gecko-dev vs datastation
svntogit-packages vs lightdm