Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:31:36PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat. >> in Guix master. Ricardo Wurmus gave me a nice tip that seems to have >> fixed the problem here: >> >> <rekado> go to about:config >> <rekado> find the keys gfx.canvas.azure.backends and >> gfx.content.azure.backends >> <rekado> for both change “cairo” to “skia” >> <rekado> note that for me this results in less readable fonts > > Can we set this option while building?
No, but we can modify/substitute the config icecat uses, and set it there see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/mozconfig-v6.49.eclass and search for "skia". Or, I haven't looked at it too closely, it can be passed to the configure script.
