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0 pointsehecatl421y ago0 comments

Emacs Web Wowser for the most part, for me, and it basically works... except when it fucking does not.

The modern web, as we all know, is all kinds of shit. Anybody here compile Firefox recently?

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Gentoo user here: all the time. Worst part is that Firefox depends on NodeJS which takes a good day to compile on my 2c/4t 3250U.

jcranmer1y ago

The NodeJS dependency is purely for running some tests. You shouldn't need it to actually build Firefox.

mid-kid1y ago

If that was the case I'm sure someone would've turned it into a test-only dependency in gentoo.

forty1y ago

So actually even Firefox depends on V8...

fp641y ago

What’s wrong with V8? Had only pleasant interactions with it so far (maybe compiling takes long, can’t tell, whole webkit is a nightmare in that regard)

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voytec1y ago

Why would you? Firefox is a spyware nowadays.

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