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.
I am on Guix System. Right now, I have access to IceCat from guix and Firefox from nonguix, of which I have GC’ed Firefox, and modified IceCat, sticking to sane privacy defaults (uBlock Origin + LibRedirect + Dark Reader).
Because I have 120GB of storage, and use Nix side-by-side for personal project, there is barely any space for another third-party package manager, as well as the stuff it will download. I use Guix Home, so having another package manager would also be counterproductive to my effort of creating a reproducibile home user configuration.
Alright then. Have fun compiling an entire web browser…
TIL the things to build a browser take up less space than a package manager… But I don’t do Linux any more hardcore than Ubuntu either
Since builds on Guix are transitive, most of the libraries have been downloaded already when I installed IceCat and Firefox. The biggest headache is trying to build NSS, followed by LibreWolf.