Re: How to make current icecat less crashy

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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:31:36PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat.
>> in Guix master.  Ricardo Wurmus gave me a nice tip that seems to have
>> fixed the problem here:
>> 
>>   <rekado> go to about:config
>>   <rekado> find the keys gfx.canvas.azure.backends and
>>            gfx.content.azure.backends
>>   <rekado> for both change “cairo” to “skia”
>>   <rekado> note that for me this results in less readable fonts
>
> Can we set this option while building?

No, but we can modify/substitute the config icecat uses, and set
it there see 
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/mozconfig-v6.49.eclass
and search for "skia". Or, I haven't looked at it too closely, it
can be passed to the configure script.