Can you consider applying the patches at http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/MozillaPatches to the firefox-ebuild? Epiphany and Galeon can be built against firefox, but with some problems that will be fixed by these patches.
I'll attach a diff to the ebuild and patches shortly.
Created attachment 54603 [details, diff] diff to current mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1 ebuild This adds the five necessary patches listed at http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/MozillaPatches, and enables the typeaheadfind extension for browsers which embed Firefox. Patches to be attached.
Created attachment 54604 [details] Set of 5 patches to Firefox source for embedding I compressed the set of patches to reduce bug noise, sorry if this bothers anyone. Notes are in the ebuild diff. Since these patches are primarily for embedding, Firefox as a browser is not affected.
*** Bug 87838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
if none of the patches have to be rediffed I will add them into a test build .. and we will move forward from there.
mozilla-1.0.6-r3 is in the tree. sorry it took a while.
The patches applied for me and seem to work. There is a small issue with typeahead find - the status messages are not displayed at the bottom of the window. I will try to look into this over the weekend.