Firefox has a number of optional dependencies that get dlopened.
Instead of using patchelf to set the RPATH use LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
The motivation for this is we already set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the
wrapper on Linux.
For in NixOS it is beneficial if both plasma5 and pam use the same Qt5
version. Because the plasma5 desktop may use a different version as the
default Qt5 version, we introduce plasma5Packages.
This is required for certain URIs that require launching external
programs (e.g. mailto:, magnet:, or irc:) or setting the default browser
via xdg-settings.
Resolve#92751.
Comparable to #96922.
libcubeb has dlopened libraries for awhile now. In nixpkgs there was
support for the PulseAudio backend doing this, however the ALSA backend
support was missed and caused issue #79310 (no sound with ALSA). This
gives ALSA users the ability to hear sound once again.
While Firefox 68 started messing with our profiles and required new
profiles on binary location changes Firefox 69 now verifies that we
aren't downgrading to an older Firefox even of the same version. If you
switch between two channel versions and/or between nixpkgs releases
Firefox will refuse to start and demand a fresh profile. Disabling the
downgrade protection works around that issue.
This is a follow up of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/66422
- rename icedtea_web to adoptopenjdk-icedtea-web to reflect the new governance
- add icedtea_web and icedtea8_web to aliases.nix for backwards compatibility
- update the attribute name where icedtea_web is used
By moving the `cfg` variable into the wrapper arguments we are able to
override it for an already wrapped package. For example, with this
change one can have
pkgs.firefox-devedition-bin.override {
cfg.enableBrowserpass = true;
}
which would otherwise be difficult to accomplish for packages having a
complicated wrapped definition in `all-packages.nix`.
Firefox running in wayland mode is unable to find and load
libEGL.so (and says so on stdout). This puts it in "basic"
mode (unaccelerated graphics) and disables WebGL. Fix this by adding
libglvnd to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
With a recent change to firefox (that landed in 67) a new profile is
created whenever the install location changes. Since our install
location (the binary path) always changes when we do a new build it is
rather annoying.
Setting the environment variable `SNAP_NAME` to `firefox` is supposed to
workaround the issue.
related to #58923
Woarkound taken from 1ff8b6c3d8
cc @rail
The firefox wrapper now supports setting the GDK_BACKEND to wayland
which is useful in cases where firefox would be started from within an
X-Application inside of wayland. GTK/GDK would otherwise default to the
X11 backend in those situations.
The intention is that people that are using wayland primarily pull in
the new `firefox-wayland` top-level attribute into their environments
instead of just `firefox`. Firefox will then always be started with the
correct rendering backend.
