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Bug 637998

Summary: >=www-client/firefox-57.0 misses support for gesture plugins
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Markus Walter <gentoo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: juippis
Priority: Normal Keywords: PATCH
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360278
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Attachments: Patch to add config option necessary for gesture plugins.
Patch to add config option necessary for gesture plugins (with typo fixed).

Description Markus Walter 2017-11-18 11:36:10 UTC
Created attachment 504618 [details, diff]
Patch to add config option necessary for gesture plugins.

Please consider applying the attached patch to add support for gesture plugins in firefox. This is taken from the mozilla bugtracker, where the patch is currently stuck in some burocracy. Opensuse already decided to take it.
Comment 1 Markus Walter 2017-11-18 15:02:07 UTC
Created attachment 504626 [details, diff]
Patch to add config option necessary for gesture plugins (with typo fixed).

As noted in the mozilla bug, the original patch contained a typo which is fixed in the attached version.
Comment 2 Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev 2017-11-20 11:57:26 UTC
Been using this in /etc/portage/patches/www-client/firefox-57.0/ since the release of 57.0 and it works. Firefox hasnt crashed once for me.
Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2017-11-20 15:43:47 UTC
(In reply to Joonas Niilola from comment #2)
> Been using this in /etc/portage/patches/www-client/firefox-57.0/ since the
> release of 57.0 and it works. Firefox hasnt crashed once for me.

You all are welcome to keep using it locally. We will not add it to Gentoo until such time that it has been accepted upstream.
Comment 5 Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev 2018-01-30 15:25:11 UTC
This is now available in Firefox-58. Users can activate the feature in about:config by changing preference 'ui.context_menus.after_mouseup' from FALSE to TRUE. 

I think this bug can be closed as fixed upstream?
Comment 6 Markus Walter 2018-01-30 19:02:39 UTC
(In reply to Joonas Niilola from comment #5)
> This is now available in Firefox-58. Users can activate the feature in
> about:config by changing preference 'ui.context_menus.after_mouseup' from
> FALSE to TRUE. 
> 
> I think this bug can be closed as fixed upstream?

Indeed. :)