{"id":620,"date":"2011-04-01T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:31:17","slug":"you-can-build-and-run-fennec-on-a-desktop-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2011\/04\/01\/you-can-build-and-run-fennec-on-a-desktop-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"You can build and run Fennec on a desktop machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learned that you can build and run Fennec on a desktop machine:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2011\/04\/fennec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-621 aligncenter\" title=\"fennec\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2011\/04\/fennec-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Fennec running on a Linux desktop\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2011\/04\/fennec-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2011\/04\/fennec-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/files\/2011\/04\/fennec.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Build\/Fennec\">build instructions<\/a> are pretty straightforward, just ignore all the stuff about Maemo and Scratchbox, you don&#8217;t need them for desktop builds.\u00a0 Everyone else probably already knows you can do this, but I&#8217;m writing this just in case some others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m a smartphone Luddite, so this is the first time I&#8217;ve actually tried Fennec myself.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty cool!\u00a0 Though I haven&#8217;t worked out how to quit yet.\u00a0 Well, I can do it on the desktop by closing the window, but that&#8217;s not within Fennec itself and so presumably isn&#8217;t possible on a smartphone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learned that you can build and run Fennec on a desktop machine: The build instructions are pretty straightforward, just ignore all the stuff about Maemo and Scratchbox, you don&#8217;t need them for desktop builds.\u00a0 Everyone else probably already knows you can do this, but I&#8217;m writing this just in case some others don&#8217;t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}