Help building FF 4.0 beta 2

[manu]

Hi all,

I'm trying to build the second beta of FF 4.0 to peek the new look and
feel, and to provide feeback. I have built FF before.

I have a clone of the http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
repository. My working copy is the tag FIREFOX_4_0b2_RELEASE:

manu@pavla:~/src/tests/mozilla/mozilla-central$ hg up
FIREFOX_4_0b2_RELEASE

The contents of my .mozconfig are:

manu@pavla:~/src/tests/mozilla/mozilla-central$ cat .mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/../objdir-ff-4-release

ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-dbus --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-gnomeui --enable-gnomevfs --enable-libxul

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64.

Building works ok. However, when I run the binary I get the old look
and feel (ie. tabs are not above the awesome bar). I even created a
new profile for testing purposes to keep my working profile as clean
as possible.

Do I have to modify my .mozconfig to get the new look and feel
working?

Thanks and best regards,
Manuel.

[L. David Baron]

On Monday 2010-07-26 13:26 -0700, manu wrote:
> Building works ok. However, when I run the binary I get the old look
> and feel (ie. tabs are not above the awesome bar). I even created a
> new profile for testing purposes to keep my working profile as clean
> as possible.

I believe the default for tabs-on-top has only changed on Windows
and Mac so far (and for Mac maybe after beta 2?).

-David

--
L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/
Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/

[manu]

> I believe the default for tabs-on-top has only changed on Windows
> and Mac so far (and for Mac maybe after beta 2?).
>
> -David
>
> --
> L. David Baron                                http://dbaron.org/
> Mozilla Corporation                      http://www.mozilla.com/

Are there any plans to make this available on Linux as well?

Manuel.

[L. David Baron]

On Monday 2010-07-26 19:25 -0700, manu wrote:
> > I believe the default for tabs-on-top has only changed on Windows
> > and Mac so far (and for Mac maybe after beta 2?).
>

> Are there any plans to make this available on Linux as well?

It's already *possible* to switch to tabs-on-top: right click on
the tab strip or toolbar, and choose "Tabs on Top".

I believe there are plans to switch the default for Linux as well,
but somebody in dev-apps-firefox is much more likely to know for
sure.