Mozilla firefox linux is a fast, fullfeatured web browser. I made some ghc binaries for linux that rely on musl instead of glibc for easier static linking. Mozilla corporations notforprofit parent, the mozilla foundation. This is usrbinlocale, which works on musl libc with limitations in musl itself. I cut a snippet of the output, so that the musl libc alternate c library can be seen as a dependency.
Adapting binaries easily to musl, or database with. Looking at a musl c library powered linux programming miscellany. I managed to get a mostly working x on the rpi2 with a glibc stage3, firefox 55. After downloading the fix file, i ran firefox once to create a profile. Installing adobe flash player for firefox alpine linux. Slackware using musllibc rather than traditional glibc. In an established application binary ecosystem, the c library is one of the the most difficult components to swap out and replace. It can be done by setting the tz environment variable in the etcenv.
The development looks to be a workinprogress, but still another little gem of slackware exists out. There are some specialized secure linux distros for security that add extra. For firefox, glibc binaries are available from for chromium i couldnt really find a glibc binary. One of the most compelling reasons to use linux is its ability to deliver a secure computing experience. Alpine linux is a securityoriented, lightweight linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. The most notable one is usually the lack of proprietary software, which rarely supports otherthanglibc libc implementations, with the. This is a collection of patches to pkgsrc for packages to build properly on musl based linux systems. The mostly unmaintained libc comparison is still available on. The musl team claims that there is no need of a way of detecting musl libc because they only implement standard functionality and have no quirks that need detecting.