Firefox 3.5 in Gentoo

Finally fed up with the awful RAM consumption of the firefox 3.0.* branch, I decided to roll up my sleeves and convert to the Amazing New Wonderfabutastical 3.5 branch.

But it's not marked stable yet on gentoo, so I had to get out the ~x86 divining rod and navigate through the minefield of getting a major package and all its dependencies unmasked.

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the result of that exercise.

/etc/portage/package.use:

media-video/vlc -nsplugin
app-office/openoffice -nsplugin

/etc/portage/package.keywords:

www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
x11-libs/cairo ~x86
net-libs/xulrunner ~x86
dev-libs/nspr ~x86
dev-libs/nss ~x86

/etc/portage/package.unmask:

>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5
>=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1
>=dev-libs/nspr-4.8
>=dev-libs/nss-3.12.3

Given all of that, a mere 'emerge -uDavt mozilla-firefox' should dutifully install the new browsing nirvana on your system.  At least, it did for me.

And, at least thus far, I'm thrilled.  Firefox runs leaner and meaner and nearly all of my plugins remained usable.

This is all transient minutia, since I imagine it'll only be a few more months perhaps before all of this percolates into the stable tree.