BSD Ports

Vulnerable: version 131.0_1,2 is affected by 20 known vulnerabilities. See below.

www/firefox 131.0_1,2 DragonFly

Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
wayland, www
Package size
60837.5 KiB, 251193.1 KiB installed

Description

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advanced features:

o Popup Blocking o Tabbed Browsing o Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS) o Extensions o Themes o FastFind o Improved Security

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlywww/firefox131.0_1,2
FreeBSDwww/firefox158.0.1,2
OpenBSDwww/mozilla-firefox158.0.1
NetBSDwww/firefox154.0.1nb1
MidnightBSDwww/firefox158.0.1,2
HardenedBSDwww/firefox157.0,2
GhostBSDwww/firefox156.0,2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install firefox

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/www/firefox && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 41

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

## Missing features

Some features found on Windows, macOS and Linux are not implemented:

- Encrypted Media Extensions (requires Widevine CDM binary)
- Process sandboxing (requires Capsicum backend)
- Reduced memory usage (requires mozjemalloc)
- Crash Reporter (requires Google Breakpad and reproducible builds)
- WebVR (requires open source runtime)
- TCP fast open
- `about:networking#networkid` (requires link state notification)

## Audio backend

Currently used audio backend can be inspected on `about:support` page.
Supported backends and default probing order is as follows:
- `pulse-rust` if `pulseaudio` package is installed (PULSEAUDIO option)
- `jack` if `jackit` package is installed (JACK option)
- `sndio` if `sndio` package is installed (SNDIO option)
- `alsa` if `alsa-lib` package is installed (ALSA option)
- `oss` (always available)
To force a specific backend open `about:config` page and create
`media.cubeb.backend` preference.

Microphone selection only works in `oss`, `pulse-rust` backends.
Other backends are limited to `default` which is usually `/dev/dsp`,
so use virtual_oss to reroute microphones from non-default devices.

## Gamepad API

Requires evdev(4) joystick support. On FreeBSD 13 and later enable hgame(4)
while older versions can use sysutils/iichid or multimedia/webcamd.

## smb:// issues
Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly.

## sftp://
Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily
setup public key authentication to `remote_host`:

    $ ssh-keygen
    $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"

The SSH server on `remote_host` must allow pub key authentication.

Known vulnerabilities 20