On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > >[...] > > ... which is the downside of free software. Technically, yes, I'm > > free to build the software with whatever I want enabled, with whatever > > changes I want added/deleted. > > In practice, my ability to build Firefox is .. lacking :( > > Yeah, trying to build some of these projects is the pits.
One way out of this may be to make a Request for Packaging, <https://wiki.debian.org/RFP>. Ask for debug builds of Firefox. Since Debian is now supplying release builds in their release channel, it might make sense for Debian to provide debug builds for web developers. Web developers can install firefox-debug as a www-browser alternative, and do things like debug protocol issues. Regular users would still get the release version of Firefox, so regular users would be protected from some of the security problems associated with the debug build. And you still might try the nightly build of Firefox, and see if it provides the features that you are looking for. If the nightly build has what you need, then you won't have to spend time on the RFP. Jeff
