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Re: How to make current icecat less crashy
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ng0 |
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Re: How to make current icecat less crashy |
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Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:33:14 +0000 |
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:31:36PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat.
>> in Guix master. Ricardo Wurmus gave me a nice tip that seems to have
>> fixed the problem here:
>>
>> <rekado> go to about:config
>> <rekado> find the keys gfx.canvas.azure.backends and
>> gfx.content.azure.backends
>> <rekado> for both change “cairo” to “skia”
>> <rekado> note that for me this results in less readable fonts
>
> Can we set this option while building?
No, but we can modify/substitute the config icecat uses, and set
it there see
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/mozconfig-v6.49.eclass
and search for "skia". Or, I haven't looked at it too closely, it
can be passed to the configure script.