Comment by rnhmjoj

9 years ago

If you like Firefox but don't trust Mozilla anymore there are plenty of forks to choose from: Waterfox, Pale Moon, Basilisk, GNU IceCat.

Personally I build Firefox from source and maintain a set of patches largely based on these: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-esr-privacy/

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Grollicus  9 years ago

I think about doing this as well but heard a lot of bad things about the firefox build process. How long does it take to build for you?

  • rnhmjoj  9 years ago

    They are probably true. Using an i5 @4.3GHz it takes 2.5/3 hours to build. To test changes you must set up a compiler cache or it's going to take forever.

    • notanote  9 years ago

      That seems a little slow. I compile nightly for my own use and it takes around 20 minutes on a haswell i5, using tmpfs for the build directory.

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