cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14245877

My main laptop is dead, so I’m on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don’t like the defaults it provides.

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I’ve read that having way too many extension is bad - there’s an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites.

And that is exactly why I’m looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I’ve waited the entire day for this browser, and I’m tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep.

I’m trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    LibreWolf is available as Flatpak. Building it from source probably will take hours and hours.

    • banazir@lemmy.ml
      9·
      6 months ago

      Back in the day when I was running Gentoo, in the long long ago, Firefox was one of the few things I installed as a binary, since compiling it took hours. Compiling it every time there was an update would have driven me crazy. From what I gather this is still true for most users. Yeah, go for the Flatpak if at all possible.

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOP
      21·
      6 months ago

      At the time of writing this, the build failed halfway. Regrettably, I’m forced to stick with IceCat preview. The choice of extension is all messy, and I am not even sure if the new configuration is resistant to threats. I guess some protection is better than no protection.

        • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          6 months ago

          Installing Flatpak would mean that I would have to download themes, fonts, graphics drivers, and the entire system file. I’m already low on space because I have Nix installed next to Guix, so that would simply not work for me.

  • catloafEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    You say “my distro” but don’t specify which, so assuming it’s some random janky shit, yeah, just work on getting it compiled. Even if it fails, you should be able to restart it from where it left off. Using ccache might help if it uses gcc.

    If you’re not using a weird custom distro and are just keeping it a secret for some reason, there are appimage and flatpak packages available: https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/

    Or if you’re using a standard distro and are just making everything difficult for yourself for no reason, you can stop doing that and just use the packages for Debian, RHEL, SUSE, or Gentoo from that page, as applicable. You might even be able to get a slackware package and use that, since last time I checked they’re just tarballs and can probably be unpacked and used as-is.