Thanks to Lee Salzman, the state of GTK+3 support in Firefox got better. Unit tests went from looking like this:

To looking like this:

There’s obviously some work left to make those look even better, but we’ve come a long way.

Ludovic Hirlimann recently asked if there were builds to dogfood and that prompted me to attempt making the builds from the elm branch auto-update. Which, after several attempts, I managed to get working with gross (but small) hacks of the build system.

So here we are, if you want to dogfood GTK+3 Firefox, here is what you can do::

In a normal Linux nightly, go to about:config and create the following string preferences (right-click, New, String): “ app.update.url.override ” with the value “ https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/elm-linux/latest/update.xml ” for 32-bits builds, or “ https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/elm-linux64/latest/update.xml ” for 64-bits builds, “ app.update.certs.3.issuerName ” with the value “ CN=DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US “, “ app.update.certs.3.commonName ” with the value “ ftp.mozilla.org “.

and create the following string preferences (right-click, New, String): Open the burger menu, click the “?” icon, then choose “About Nightly”. This should check for an update, find one, and download it. This will upgrade to a GTK+3 build.

Alternatively, you can just download and install the elm builds directly (32-bits, 64-bits).

If for some reason, you want to go back to a normal GTK+2 nightly, go to about:config , find the “ app.update.url.override ” preference and set it to an empty value. Triggering the update from “About Nightly” won’t, however, work until the next nightly is available, so give it a day.

As mentioned in my previous post about GTK+3, if you’re interested in making those builds work better, you are welcome to help:

p.m.o

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