[Nix-dev] Firefox

[Georges Dubus]

Hello,

"firefox-with-plugins" is not a new version of firefox, it is a wrapper
around an existing version of firefox that enable some plugins. Building
firefox-with-plugins does not require the compilation of firefox: it just
takes a firefox and some plugins and create a firefox executable that uses
those plugins.

It is defined in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L10614
and
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/wrapper.nix
(not easy to find, because the string "firefox-with-plugins" never appears).

The main use case is for non-free plugins like flash, so
firefox-with-plugins is not built by the build servers.

Georges Dubus

2014-10-12 10:03 GMT+02:00 Catonano <catonano at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> why is "firefox-with-plugins" not available as a binary ?
>
> me at my-machine ~$ nix-env -qas | grep firefox
> --S  firefox-32.0.3
> --S  firefox-bin-32.0.3
> ---  firefox-with-plugins-13.0.1
> ---  firefox-with-plugins-32.0.3
>
> and what's the difference between firefox and firefox-with-plugins ?
>
> I can't find firefox-with-plugins in the nixpkgs repository
>
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