firefox Firefox 17 without social api

[n_K]

So after seeing firefox 17 in my upgrades list and removing it every time for the past few weeks, I'm now getting annoyed of having to do this so I thought I'd download the source and remove all that social **** from it and compile it...

Took about 40 minutes to remove all the social API rubbish and it's been compiling for a few hours... Only problem is mozilla obviously don't know their own product, saying it'll take about 1GB to compile, I started compiling with 1.5GB free in my RAM (in /tmp) and what do you know, ran out of disk space...

So I've transferred the base files over to a VM with 4GB of free space and will see if it compiles. If it does, I'll get onto making a diff patch for it and post it here!

And I might make a PKGBUILD for arch and submit it.

So, anyone want to test this out? :p. I'm on and compiling for arch so I've got no idea if it'll work for windows/mac/other distros.

[francescob]

Asocialfox?

[f0rk_b0mb]

LOL! I'm bored. :p I'm willing to test it on my Fedora 17 x64 VM. How would I install it? Would I have to compile it or did you make an RPM?

[n_K]

You'd have to compile it from scratch :/.

I'm building it outside the arch build system though using the same commands so in theory I could get away with building it into an arch package.

I was thinking more;

antisocialfox ;)

[Nothing Here]

As long as I don't have to compile it myself(as I'm too lazy this morning), I will test it out under Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows.

[f0rk_b0mb]

You'd have to compile it from scratch :/.

I'm building it outside the arch build system though using the same commands so in theory I could get away with building it into an arch package.

So with the files would I just cd to that dir, sudo make, make install, cleanup or what?

[Lirodon]

So what's the big deal? You don't have to use it. That Facebook thing is an opt-in thing.

Don't be an Andrea Norman.

[Nothing Here]

So what's the big deal? You don't have to use it. That Facebook thing is an opt-in thing.

Don't be an Andrea Norman.

Dude, WTF?!?! n_k is a well respected member here and your comment is out of line. I think you need to stop being an Andrea Borman.

[n_K]

So what's the big deal? You don't have to use it. That Facebook thing is an opt-in thing.

I read a few posts on mozilla's site earlier about someone saying they didn't want it and the usual mozilla people saying 'blah blah its opt in it isnt active unless you activate it', so?

IE 8 had XSS protection, MS's head of security for the UK (a previous FBI agent) came to our uni. to do a talk and he touted how good it was, one of the people in the lecture said it didn't work, the the guy took the **** out of him for the whole session.

Know what happened after? He emailed the guy his research into it, got a FULL APOLOGY and money as a way of saying sorry.

Just because a feature is there, DO NOT THINK that 'opt in' means it's secure.

I don't want that **** there at all, I don't want it wasting my CPU cycles and showing me menu options I don't want to see, so I'm removing it.

As long as I don't have to compile it myself(as I'm too lazy this morning), I will test it out under Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows.

So with the files would I just cd to that dir, sudo make, make install, cleanup or what?

Yes you would have to compile it! :p

I can upload the files compiled in arch but not sure if they'd work. I don't know how/if you can compile firefox for windows on linux, will have a look into it later.

In terms of the files, I'm gonna make a diff patch so you'd download the source from mozilla's site, cd to it, run: patch -p1 < ../firefox.patch then make and it'd (hopefully) build

I've got it built now, that 1GB mozilla said about compiling? Try 3.5GB...

Only problem is I have obviously accidentally removed a </menupopup> from browser.xul so just added it in and recompiling now to see if it works.

[+Warwagon MVC]

They should make a version code named "Anti-social"

[n_K]

Right where does any of this social crap appear if you've got the native firefox 17?

Here's some screenshots of the version I just compiled, I can't see any mentions of the chatbox or whatnot so I'm assuming I removed all the right stuff?

OK so I think it is fully removed!

I went to the facebook page with the 'turn on' thing, click it and it greys out - nothing else happens, refresh and it goes back to a clickable 'turn on' button!

Will make a diff and arch package now!

EDIT: RIGHT! Patch is in this post. Had to add .txt on the end so it'd attach.

What I did; downloaded ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/17.0.1/source/firefox-17.0.1.source.tar.bz2

Extract it (you will need about 3.5GB) then open a terminal, go to the folder you extracted it to and put the patch file there too, then do: patch -p1 < antisocialfox.patch.txt

Now configure and build firefox as you normally would... I decided to just do it the way arch does it and if you want to follow that then;

Download the 'plain' versions of the files from https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/firefox [You only need firefox-install-dir.patch, shared-libs.patch, vendor.js and mozconfig], and put them in the same folder and do;

mv mozconfig .mozconfig

patch -Np1 -i ./firefox-install-dir.patch

patch -Np1 -i ./shared-libs.patch

sed -i '/^PRE_RELEASE_SUFFIX := ""/s/ ""//' browser/base/Makefile.in

export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/firefox"

export PYTHON="/usr/bin/python2"

export MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS"

unset MAKEFLAGS

export MOZ_PGO=1

make -f client.mk build || _fail=1

And now if you press obj and press tab, then CD to dist and bin, you can launch a (hopefully working) antisocialfox 17!

antisocialfox.patch.txt

Edited December 17, 2012 by n_K

[f0rk_b0mb]

Yes you would have to compile it! :p

I can upload the files compiled in arch but not sure if they'd work. I don't know how/if you can compile firefox for windows on linux, will have a look into it later.

In terms of the files, I'm gonna make a diff patch so you'd download the source from mozilla's site, cd to it, run: patch -p1 < ../firefox.patch then make and it'd (hopefully) build

OK. LOL! Just making sure I knew what I was doing. Let me know when this patch is available. :)

[n_K]

OK I've transferred it to my main arch pc, installed it (it's ~5MB smaller than firefox 16, not sure if I ballsed something up or if that's normal).

Anyway, here's the PKG if you want to have fun with it :D http://www34.zippysh...27798/file.html

Install it as root via: pacman -U firefox-17.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

You should be able to extract that on a fedora or other linux distro PC to the proper folders or a temporary folder (in /tmp for instance) and see if it works.. Beware that if you have firefox 16 or earlier, after running this (if it works) I would assume you will be unable to run firefox 16 or below again due to upgrading your profile, though I may be wrong.

I'll have a ganders into compiling for windows now! Looks like I can't compile for windows :( needs to be compile on a windows host for windows and to do that I'll need an extrrnal drive for my windows VM so it has space... I'll see if I can hook one up and get it working. Scratch that, added a drive via USB and pscp'ing files over now.

UPDATE: Started compiling after eventually figuring out how to compile on windows...

Due to me only having 400MB free on C:\ I can't install the DX SDK so have had to disable webgl but err if this works I can look at fixing that problem later :p

Edited December 17, 2012 by n_K

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

I have no use for social media imbedded in Firefox. I am using the Nightly builds and I just do not activate or use it.

[n_K]

Well I was going to sleep but...

It might be hard to comprehend (I still can't understand why) but yeah, firefox 17... is still compiling... on windows...

Over 4 hours... pretty rediculous.

EDIT: OK it's build... But it's erm... 'Nightly', not firefox? Not really sure how it's messed that up. Any idea how to get it back to being _JUST_ firefox?

EDIT2: Here's the files if you want to test then, arch version works fine (I'm using it right now) and windows version worked fine when I quickly tested it though it does say 'nightly' not 'firefox' with a different logo.

Arch Linux 64-bit package (Using other distros? Extract it and it _might_ work :p): http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/85627798/file.html

Windows 32 bit installer (compiled using VS 2012 64 bit): http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/3142549/file.html

Windows 32 bit archive (compiled using VS 2012 64 bit): http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/18595368/file.html

Edited December 18, 2012 by n_K

[Nothing Here]

Hmm...that's a bit strange. Wait, you may have removed the Firefox branding somehow and it defaulted to the previous build name?

[n_K]

Nothing was removed, I didn't use a mozconfig either for the windows build (they say without one makes it practically the same as the official builds).

EDIT: Looks like they set it to automatically use nightly branding and specify 'NEVER automatically set to use official branding' so I guess it's a trademark protection thing.

Edited December 18, 2012 by n_K

[Nothing Here]

Maybe try with a mozconfig then, couldn't hurt. Other then that, I don't know why it would default. But wait till you have had some rest first.

[DavidM]

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - Error - "The program can't start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem." - Still got this error after two reinstalls and a removal then another install. I will grab the C++ redistributable and test again.

EDIT: installed the above mentioned redistributable and still get the same error, even after re-boot and reinstall attempt. Any ideas?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I'm not sure I see the point in this, the social stuff isn't even enabled (or loaded), so the only affect in the end will be a slight reduction in the file size of the support files.

[Steven P. Administrators]

I'm on 17.0.1 too and I don't see any social stuff?

[Xahid]

I'm on 17.0.1 too and I don't see any social stuff?

he was talking about Api in Firefox source code, you can use that api using Add-on Facebook toolbar.

[n_K]

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - Error - "The program can't start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem." - Still got this error after two reinstalls and a removal then another install. I will grab the C++ redistributable and test again.

EDIT: installed the above mentioned redistributable and still get the same error, even after re-boot and reinstall attempt. Any ideas?

Humm that's weird, did you use the 32 bit or 64 bit runtime install? I compiled and tested on W7 pro x64 with VS .NET 2010 and it runs fine :s.

I'm not sure I see the point in this, the social stuff isn't even enabled (or loaded), so the only affect in the end will be a slight reduction in the file size of the support files.

It is loaded, it is fully integrated with firefox, whether you see it or not, IT IS LOADED, and it damn well shouldn't be there at all.

I'm on 17.0.1 too and I don't see any social stuff?

Go to https://www.facebook...ger-for-firefox and click the button, if something happens or a dialogue opens (I don't know what is meant to happen) then you've got the social api, if however the button just greys out and if you refresh is shows the same page and the button not greyed out - you've not got the social api.

[DavidM]

Humm that's weird, did you use the 32 bit or 64 bit runtime install? I compiled and tested on W7 pro x64 with VS .NET 2010 and it runs fine :s.

The x64 version - MS Visual C++ x64 Redistributable - 10.0.303.19

Neither the installer or the zip version makes a difference, I'll try the 32 bit version.

EDIT : The x86 Redistrib did the trick, runs fine here. How long are you going to keep compiling "social free firefox"?

[n_K]

EDIT : The x86 Redistrib did the trick, runs fine here. How long are you going to keep compiling "social free firefox"?

Good! :D.

Probably for as long as I use firefox. Not sure about windows port though, it took less than an hour to build on linux and over 5 hours to build on windows :/ so unless there's a way to vastly speed up windows compile or I leave it compiling overnight... Which I may do.

Anyway instead of recompilining now to change from 'nightly' to 'firefox' I'll just leave it with nightly until the next firefox 17 update comes out then build that as firefox not nightly! :p.