Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
by blauditore on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:50AM
(#14847674)
I cannot find the flag in about:config - my version is "56.0a1 (2017-07-23) (64-bit)", so it should be in there, no?
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I have the flag in my about:config with build `56.0a1 (2017-07-25) (64-bit)` under Linux. You're SO two days ago! Update your Nightly :)
Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
by blauditore on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:03AM
(#14847748)
Hmm, I got it through `ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa` on Ubuntu, so this is generally a couple days behind? Did you download it manually?
Looks like that disables Servo at build time. Someone on Reddit had the same problem - https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6p9t83/psa_you_can...
Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
by blauditore on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:35AM
(#14854276)
Indeed, same issue. Thanks for the pointer.
Yes, I like to run the official self-updating build from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-c... , because it's the official build (which is appreciated when reporting bugs) and always fresh.
- You could switch to that too (I run it even on my job Ubuntu machine, never saw any benefit to using the official Ubuntu PPA apart from proper packaging, which I don't care about, this Firefox lives in /opt/firefox and that's okay with me, and getting updates are a matter of hitting Help -> About, easy).
- Or just wait a few days for the PPA to serve a fresher build. EDIT forget about this and read bzbarsky's answer above. Thanks, Boris :)
It's entirely possible that Ubuntu is not compiling in stylo at all.
In fact it's likely: Firefox nightlies on Linux have been shipping stylo (preffed off) for close to three weeks, so if a two-day-old Ubuntu build doesn't have it, chances are neither will a newer one until they change their build configuration to use --enable-stylo.