Since firefox 58.0.1 the google api key is now stored at an absolute
path ($TMPDIR/ga). Since variable expansion in `configureFlags` does not
really work (as expected) the build started failing when using the
legacy firefox build system. With the newer `./mach` based builds
firefox reads the configure flags from `.mozconfig` instead.
This commit moves the `with-google-api-keyfile=` setting into the
`preConfigure` phase where we can properly expand `$TMPDIR` into
whatever the path is.
As stated by Sylvestre Ledru (@sylvestre) on Nov 22, 2017 at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/31843#issuecomment-346372756 we
have permission to use the official firefox branding.
Fur purposes of documentation the statement of @sylvestre:
> As the person who did part of the work described in the LWN article
> and release manager working for Mozilla, I can confirm the statement
> that I made in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
>
> @garbas shared with me the list of patches applied for the Nix package.
> As they are just for portability and tiny modifications, they don't
> alter the experience of the product. In parallel, Rok also shared the
> build options. They seem good (even if I cannot judge the quality of the
> packaging of the underlying dependencies like sqlite, png, etc).
> Therefor, as long as you keep the patch queue sane and you don't alter
> the experience of Firefox users, you won't have any issues using the
> official branding.
This reverts a part of commit 559433d0db.
The problem with removing those options completely is that without them
tor-browser's config differs from the official config (which may or may
not be a problem for fingerprinting).
Broken since #30143.
I can't say I understand why this combination is apparently unsupported.
i686-linux is a second-tier platform now, but firefox is still kept a
channel blocker...
Andreas Rammhold