How to build Firefox 3.5+ with JSSH on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
February 4th, 2010I needed to run Firefox with JSSH support on Ubuntu 9.10 x64 in order to use it with Ruby’s Watir library. Unfortunately the xpi file available on the watir site does not support 64bit Ubuntu, which meant I had to compile Firefox from scratch with builtin support for JSSH.
The configuration file (.mozconfig) has changed slightly with the newer versions of Firefox, so the older guides out there no longer work. Below is an updated step by step process which works up to Firefox 3.7a1pre (the newest version available at the time of this writing). Needless to say, this should also work with Firefox 3.5 and 3.6.
