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Details of www-client/firefox:

Description: Firefox Web Browser

available versions:

releases	alpha	amd64	arm	hppa	ia64	mips	ppc	ppc64	ppc macos	s390	sh	sparc	x86	USE-Flags	dependencies	ebuild warnings
firefox-151.0.3	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-151.0.2	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-151.0.1	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-151.0	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-150.0.3	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-150.0.2	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-150.0.1	-	~	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-140.11.0	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-140.10.2	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show
firefox-140.10.1-r1	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	~	-	-	-	-	~	+clang dbus debug eme-free hardened hwaccel jack libproxy pgo pulseaudio selinux sndio	show	/dev/shm is not mounted -- expect build failures! Unable to modify ulimits - building with mold+lto might fail due to low ulimit -n resources. Please see bugs #892641 & #907485. You have nouveau drivers installed in your system and 'hwaccel' enabled for Firefox. Nouveau / your GPU might not support the required EGL, so either disable 'hwaccel' or try the workaround explained in https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078#c5 if Firefox crashes. show

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Known bugs:

bug ID	component	assigned to	status	description	last change
135923	Applications	lu_zero	UNCONFIRMED	x11-drivers/ati-drivers: weird image rendering problems with www-client/firefox	2012-06-06 13:44:40
374081	Ebuilds	maintainer-wanted	UNCONFIRMED	Request for Firefox Add-on SDK ebuild	2011-08-03 21:09:49
374289	Applications	hardened	UNCONFIRMED	www-clients/firefox-5.0-r2 mmap loog on PaX&hardened system	2012-01-21 01:27:05
403277	Applications	x11	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox 1080p html5 videos do not play smoothly	2012-02-13 01:14:15
406541	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	mail-client/thunderbird-10.0.1-r1 and www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 - checking whether the C compiler	2012-03-06 13:50:15
408855	Printing	printing	UNCONFIRMED	app-text/acroread-9.4.7 with www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 - after closing pdf loaded in tab acroread	2012-03-20 14:30:11
409653	Core system	xmw	UNCONFIRMED	sys-power/suspend-0.8-r1 - Hibernate freezes on "Snapshotting system..." when firefox is working	2012-03-26 19:00:56
413131	Ebuilds	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox - sdk binaries are not executable	2012-05-08 15:54:49
414273	Ebuilds	maintainer-needed	UNCONFIRMED	media-gfx/picasa USE=nsplugin - alternatively depend on www-client/firefox / www-client/firefox-bin	2013-02-10 08:42:58
414363	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-12.0 / mail-client/thunderbird-12.0.1 german locale not recognized, no german int	2012-05-08 15:45:35
418115	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-12.0-r2 ignores ccache when both ccache and distcc are enabled	2012-07-15 05:38:36
419671	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox, mail-client/thunderbird ebuilds should check RAM+swap size	2013-01-12 23:29:37
422447	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox 10.0.5 creates /tmp/mozilla-media-cache	2012-06-20 12:56:08
423313	Tools	tools-portage	UNCONFIRMED	revdep-rebuild does not fix /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 // www-client/firefox-10.0.5 - l	2012-08-03 11:54:41
427048	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-14.0.1 fails to build with ABI x32 - /usr/include/bits/sysctl.h:19:3: error: #err	2013-01-16 13:49:43
427824	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-14.0.1: suspect rdepends	2012-07-24 08:58:59
428220	Applications	toolchain	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-10.0.5 - ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.21.1 internal error, aborting at /var/tmp/porta	2012-07-27 17:14:46
431806	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-14.0.1 does not run on PPC64	2012-08-26 10:01:23
434024	Java	java	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-15.0, "click to play": Java applets don't work	2012-09-20 09:38:49
434174	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-15.0: Cannot watch youtube without flash after suspend to ram (KDE)	2012-09-20 09:38:21
434452	Ebuilds	toolchain	UNCONFIRMED	[4.5/ICE] www-client/firefox-15.0.1 - .../work/mozilla-release/js/src/vm/ObjectImpl.cpp:485:1: inter	2012-12-07 08:28:56
434542	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-bin-15.0 is trying to automatically upgrade via Mozilla Upgrade path	2013-02-20 21:53:50
436674	Applications	gstreamer	UNCONFIRMED	media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35: www-client/firefox-15.0.1[gstreamer] segfaults playing some vid	2013-01-31 21:51:41
438490	Ebuilds	maintainer-wanted	UNCONFIRMED	www-plugins/mozilla-gnome-keyring-0.6.4 - A firefox extension that enables Gnome Keyring integration	2012-10-15 18:59:37
439106	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	>=www-client/firefox-15.0.1: random freezes (e.g. opening file chooser dialog)	2012-11-17 12:30:47
439148	Library	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	{www-client/firefox,mail-clientthunderbird}-bin-{15,16},seamonkey-bin-2.13.2 with net-libs/libproxy-	2013-01-22 19:39:26
439244	Unspecified	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-16.0.1 - .../work/mozilla-release/memory/jemalloc/src/src/jemalloc.c:1736:1: erro	2013-01-14 08:53:52
439260	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox(-bin)-(15\|16).0.1 segfaults a lot in different situations	2012-11-12 06:10:38
442692	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-16.0.2 mail-client/thunderbird-16.0.1-r1 - comm-release/tbird/mozi - Segmentation	2012-11-30 06:41:13
443712	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	>=www-client/firefox-16: add USE flag for enabling the built-in profiler	2012-11-26 19:47:03
445044	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-10.0.6 - File collisions: /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/lib/firefox/plugins	2012-11-30 02:43:00
445154	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-17.0-r1[-libnotify] and mail-client/thunderbird-17.0-r1[-libnotify] always compil	2012-12-17 15:23:57
449084	Unspecified	prefix	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-17.0.1 fails to build due to missing dependencies	2013-01-14 17:53:42
449340	Applications	lack	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-17.0.1 crashed while watching movie online	2013-01-02 22:09:55
451504	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-18.0/www-client/seamonkey-2.15 failed (install phase) [to emerge]; incorrect pag	2013-02-07 15:47:44
451544	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-18.0 fails to build without dbus flag	2013-01-13 02:21:35
452734	Other	alt	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-18.0-r1 fails to build (prefix) - fatal error: jemalloc.h: No such file or direct	2013-01-29 19:41:01
454460	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-18.0.1: undefined reference to `WebRtcAecm_WindowAndFFTNeon'	2013-01-30 20:14:08
455428	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox-18.0.1 should depend on >=dev-db/sqlite-3.7.14.1	2013-02-05 12:14:48
456798	Applications	mozilla	UNCONFIRMED	www-client/firefox and mail-client/thunderbird 17.0.2 - parallel build issues	2013-02-12 22:15:37

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