mozilla-firefox-1.0-r2 and r3 is builded against gtk2, although I use -gtk2 use flag. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointe r -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/ge ntoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X Xaw3d aavm alsa async avi berkdb bitmap-fonts chroot crypt dillo div x4linux dnd encode escreen esd evo f77 ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ge oip gif gpm gtk imagemagick java javascript jbig jikes jpeg lcms libg++ libwww l ive lua lzo mad matroska mbox mdb mmap mmx mmx2 mng modelock moznocompose moznoi rc moznomail moznoxft mozp3p mozsvg mpeg ncurses network offensive oggvorbis ope ngl operanom2 oss pam pda pdflib perl pic png python quicktime radeon readline r eal rtc sasl sdl sox speex spell sse ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype type1 usb userlocales vdesktop vim-with-x wmf wxwindows x86 xml xmms xosd xv xvid xvmc zl ib video_cards_radeon" ldd /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin | grep gtk libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b21000)
gtk1 is no longer supported for mozilla-firefox, either upstream or in gentoo
sorry this was confusing, I had forgotten to remove IUSE=gtk2 from the eclass and ebuilds. Fixed now.