Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-29 Thread Valeri Galtsev

On Fri, April 29, 2016 7:22 am, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 10:20 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:27 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
 Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0
>>>
>>> Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see
>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html), and CentOS
>>> rebuilt and released it.
>>>
>>> What, exactly, would you like the CentOS maintainers to do
>>> differently?  Are you volunteering your time to help?
>>
>> I would really like to help but I lack the time with many many demands
>> on time I don't have.
>>
>> Centos might form a special interests group specifically for the
>> existing Firefox ESR browser. Another poster recently stated Mozilla was
>> dropping ESR versions which is likely to jeopardise browser stability.
>>
>> Ultimately it would be nice for a Firefox folk removing privacy
>> breeches, phoning home, allowing web sites to secretly store data
>> (despite options turned-off) and removal of lots of crap unnecessary for
>> the vast majority of Enterprise users. It could eliminate the constant
>> changes - often apparently just to amuse Firefox developers - which
>> users seem to hate.
>>
>> When using the yum GUI update notification service, no reasons for
>> updates are visible.
>>
>> No good issuing a security improvement when, as Johnny replied in
>> another posting,
>>
>>  " With respect to CentOS-5, it seems this patch was not
>>   migrated to the 45.0.1 install:
>>
>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1025187
>>
>>  from this bugzilla:
>>
>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221368 "
>>
>> essential parts were omitted. Perhaps Up-Stream were pre-occupied with
>> another fundamental change to the product we know and love ? (well, not
>> C7 yet)
>>
>> I use Firefox extensively for a multitude of tasks.
>
> OK, when red hat releases a firefox update, we build it.  It is a
> rebuild of the upstream code, as is are all other CentOS packages.
>
> So, we will work with the Red Hat maintainer to address any issues, like
> we did with the unix plice bug .. BUT .. we will build and release any
> source code that is released for RHEL .. that is what CentOS Linux is, a
> rebuild of the RHEL Source Code, when it is released.
>
> So, it does not matter if the packages are broken or not.  If the CentOS
> team did not make changes that did the breaking, we will not be issueing
> fixes UNTIL Red Hat does in the RHEL Source Code.  It the centOS team
> did make a branding change, and that change is responsible for breaking
> something, we will of course fix that ASAP and release.
>
> In the case of this firefox release, Red Hat has acknowledged they need
> to fix it in the RHEL Source Code here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221368
>
> Therefore, I have made a new temporary version available here, for
> people who would opt to get the new version and not wait:
>
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/firefox-45.1.0-1.1.el5.centos/
>
> If you want either the 1386 and/or x86_64 versions, please manually
> download and install them.

It surfaces over and over again... I will try to stress it (from outside,
as I am not in CentOS team) again.

CentOS is binary replica of RedHat Enterprise Linux, and this is what it
should stay, and we hope it will. We do use it because of what it is. And
I at least once thanked myself for choosing RedHat, and then RedHat's
descendant CentOS. You may remember when random number generator bug in
Debian (great distribution IMHO !!) was discovered (that affected all
Debian clones as well: Ubuntu, maemo...). My friend sysadmin next door -
whose everything was Debian - was like a crazy re-generating all key
pairs, certificates, and still you can't be sure then didn't walk in
and... That day (those days actually) I was just sitting relaxed in my
chair and thanked myself for choosing RedHat (Fedora and CentOS), as
RedHad never had a flop of that level in my recollection.

Let's thank CentOS team for the great job they are doing, and stop forcing
them to stress over and over again that CentOS is binary replica of RedHat
Enterprise (I know strictly speaking the last in not correct, but it is
the most transparent way for me to say it).

Grateful CentOS user,

Valeri

>
> Thanks,
> Johnny HUghes
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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-29 Thread Always Learning

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:


> Therefore, I have made a new temporary version available here, for
> people who would opt to get the new version and not wait:
> 
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/firefox-45.1.0-1.1.el5.centos/

Wonderful, marvellous and I'm delightfully (and gratefully) happy again.
Brilliant.

Thank you Johnny.



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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-29 Thread Always Learning

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 11:21 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:

> Given: RHEL5 goes end of life on 2017-03-31, which is 47 weeks, 6 days, 13
> hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds from now
> 
> and that even now the updates are limited to critical (ie remote code
> execution) pretty much might I suggest now is a good time to be thinking
> about that future of that system and if not move to C7 at least move to C6?
> 
> I can't even imagine the pain of using C5 as a desktop in today's world ...


I am conservative with somethings but adventurous with others.

C5's Gnome desktop is stable and satisfies all my needs because it is
reliable and always works well; FF45 being the exception.

C6 is set-up on a faster, quieter development machine with double the
RAM and USB3. When my last C5 production server moves to C6, then I'll
have to say a gratefully metaphorical farewell to my dependable C5
development machine "its been really great knowing you".

Stability and reliability are essential for basic computer work. C7 has
yet to convince me it is worth the considerable investment in time and
energy relearning how to operate and use it. That is why Valerie's BSD
philosophy appears attractive (the manual from 1998 remains largely
unread). I'll stay with C6 for as long as possible.

Please don't demean something (i.e. C5 and its desktop) which has been a
wonderful and enjoyable experience.






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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

2016-04-29 Thread Valeri Galtsev

On Fri, April 29, 2016 7:44 am, Alice Wonder wrote:
> On 04/29/2016 04:44 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
> *snip*
>> So what's gone wrong with the Linux Desktop developers?
>
> I don't know, but that's why I use MATE.

MATE was a solution for me too. I used gnome on my FreeBSD workstation and
laptop till FreeBSD upgraded to ugly new Gnome, then I switched to Mate
and am happy ever since.

I convinced myself to not blame free software developers for making fancy
(in their opinion) things that interact with me way different from what I
am used to and what I like to stay the way it was. This (blooming
fanciness) is often their only reward for hard work they do. And some of
us who prefer not to accept what hits our productivity, flee elsewhere,
thus providing feedback...

Just my $0.02

Valeri

>
> I get acceptable performance on my T410 thinkpad with 4GB of memory and
> outstanding performance on my home built desktop with 16GB of memory.
>
> The T410 has been upgraded with an Intel SSD.
>
> Gnome3 on the Thinkpad was just painful.
>
> Anyway, MATE is in EPEL.
>
> There are still some quirks - like what they did with gedit, you've got
> the "open" button all the way on the left and the "Save" button way over
> on the right - who the hell thought that was a good idea?
>
> Ah well.
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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

2016-04-29 Thread Alice Wonder

On 04/29/2016 04:44 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
*snip*

So what's gone wrong with the Linux Desktop developers?


I don't know, but that's why I use MATE.

I get acceptable performance on my T410 thinkpad with 4GB of memory and 
outstanding performance on my home built desktop with 16GB of memory.


The T410 has been upgraded with an Intel SSD.

Gnome3 on the Thinkpad was just painful.

Anyway, MATE is in EPEL.

There are still some quirks - like what they did with gedit, you've got 
the "open" button all the way on the left and the "Save" button way over 
on the right - who the hell thought that was a good idea?


Ah well.

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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/28/2016 10:20 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:27 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
>>> Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0
>>
>> Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see
>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html), and CentOS
>> rebuilt and released it.
>>
>> What, exactly, would you like the CentOS maintainers to do
>> differently?  Are you volunteering your time to help?
> 
> I would really like to help but I lack the time with many many demands
> on time I don't have.  
> 
> Centos might form a special interests group specifically for the
> existing Firefox ESR browser. Another poster recently stated Mozilla was
> dropping ESR versions which is likely to jeopardise browser stability. 
> 
> Ultimately it would be nice for a Firefox folk removing privacy
> breeches, phoning home, allowing web sites to secretly store data
> (despite options turned-off) and removal of lots of crap unnecessary for
> the vast majority of Enterprise users. It could eliminate the constant
> changes - often apparently just to amuse Firefox developers - which
> users seem to hate.
> 
> When using the yum GUI update notification service, no reasons for
> updates are visible.
> 
> No good issuing a security improvement when, as Johnny replied in
> another posting,
> 
>   " With respect to CentOS-5, it seems this patch was not
>migrated to the 45.0.1 install:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1025187
> 
>   from this bugzilla:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221368 "
> 
> essential parts were omitted. Perhaps Up-Stream were pre-occupied with
> another fundamental change to the product we know and love ? (well, not
> C7 yet)
> 
> I use Firefox extensively for a multitude of tasks.

OK, when red hat releases a firefox update, we build it.  It is a
rebuild of the upstream code, as is are all other CentOS packages.

So, we will work with the Red Hat maintainer to address any issues, like
we did with the unix plice bug .. BUT .. we will build and release any
source code that is released for RHEL .. that is what CentOS Linux is, a
rebuild of the RHEL Source Code, when it is released.

So, it does not matter if the packages are broken or not.  If the CentOS
team did not make changes that did the breaking, we will not be issueing
fixes UNTIL Red Hat does in the RHEL Source Code.  It the centOS team
did make a branding change, and that change is responsible for breaking
something, we will of course fix that ASAP and release.

In the case of this firefox release, Red Hat has acknowledged they need
to fix it in the RHEL Source Code here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221368

Therefore, I have made a new temporary version available here, for
people who would opt to get the new version and not wait:

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/firefox-45.1.0-1.1.el5.centos/

If you want either the 1386 and/or x86_64 versions, please manually
download and install them.

Thanks,
Johnny HUghes



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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

2016-04-29 Thread Rob Kampen

On 04/29/2016 10:21 PM, James Hogarth wrote:

On 29 April 2016 at 09:55, isdtor  wrote:


Always Learning writes:

However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded
extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi

The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting
that you referenced in a follow-up.

What I would really like to see, talking about SIGs and such, is an rpm
for palemoon, but I fear it can't be done on C5. Even C6 only would help,
although I'm hesitating to move my main desktop off 5; the C6 desktop
simply doesn't have the same stability and performance, and having to log
off/log on just because PA behaves irratically is really annoying.



Given: RHEL5 goes end of life on 2017-03-31, which is 47 weeks, 6 days, 13
hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds from now

and that even now the updates are limited to critical (ie remote code
execution) pretty much might I suggest now is a good time to be thinking
about that future of that system and if not move to C7 at least move to C6?

I can't even imagine the pain of using C5 as a desktop in today's world ...
Having used C5 desktops until 4 years ago, then C6 until last week and 
now using C7, some observations.
Getting H/w stuff to work has got MUCH easier. Mostly "it just works". 
With the EPEL and ELrepo most everything one needs to perform normal 
office desktop functions is just a yum command away.
I have tried to remain on the same hardware, but the recent move to C7 
makes my 8 year old PC with 8GB of RAM just unacceptable. This machine 
was a top of the line gaming machine for my son when we built it, now it 
stalls as it pages stuff to swap - my work load is the same, just seems 
the new C7 needs more horse-power to function.

Now about the desktop, and the tools that come with the system.
Gnome 3, Gnome classic, and KDE - historically I just used the Gnome 
desktop, Nautilus and found managing my remote servers and the web apps 
I design and administer just worked fine. Transfer of files to and from 
the remote servers was a simple drag and drop. The system remembered my 
SSH key passphrase with no special action, now it doesn't, I need to be 
entering it continually. I think there is a new app to take care of this 
but haven't yet found the time to research and set it up.
Nautilus is now next to useless for my kind of work flow. Darn, they 
call this progress?
Trying to put apps onto the Gnome Desktop - too difficult, I'm sure its 
possible but once again, far to obscure - they really want me to change 
my work flow and habits I guess.
So I dust off KDE, been a few years since I played with this, but some 
brief research to find a working file manager show dolphin gets top 
marks. Used it under Gnome initially, but some stuff just doesn't show 
on my screen properly.
At least I can actually do my job with Dolphin, but it has some quirks, 
some quite irksome quirks, but at least I am somewhat productive after a 
week of trying to get used to all the changes.
With all the things I do not like about Windoze and Micro$oft, at least 
their file manager still works intuitively from WindozeXP, Windoze7 and 
Windoze10 - the only versions I have chosen to use over the last 15 years.

So what's gone wrong with the Linux Desktop developers?
Hardware upgrade to my son's three year old gaming machine next week, 
hopefully that will alleviate some of the frustrations of this migration 
to the latest CentOS 7 workstation.

Enough of a rant.
Sorry for the hi-jack, I did amend the subject.
P.S. I am using C7 for my new servers and that seems to be okay, bit of 
a learning curve for systemd and systemctl commands, also for firewalld 
vs iptables - yes I know I can use the old system, but I try to use the 
systems as much as possible as they come, as I figure that is where 
things are heading, so learn, use and embrace. e.g. NetworkManager was 
introduced in C6 - barely workable for a desktop, just a PITA for a 
server. But with C7 it mostly works as expected, with little need to 
lock things down. Works great on the desktop.

Have a great weekend.
Shalom

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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-29 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 April 2016 at 09:55, isdtor  wrote:

> Always Learning writes:
> > However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded
> > extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi
>
> The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting
> that you referenced in a follow-up.
>
> What I would really like to see, talking about SIGs and such, is an rpm
> for palemoon, but I fear it can't be done on C5. Even C6 only would help,
> although I'm hesitating to move my main desktop off 5; the C6 desktop
> simply doesn't have the same stability and performance, and having to log
> off/log on just because PA behaves irratically is really annoying.
>


Given: RHEL5 goes end of life on 2017-03-31, which is 47 weeks, 6 days, 13
hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds from now

and that even now the updates are limited to critical (ie remote code
execution) pretty much might I suggest now is a good time to be thinking
about that future of that system and if not move to C7 at least move to C6?

I can't even imagine the pain of using C5 as a desktop in today's world ...
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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-29 Thread isdtor
Always Learning writes:
> However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded
> extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi
 
The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting that 
you referenced in a follow-up.

What I would really like to see, talking about SIGs and such, is an rpm for 
palemoon, but I fear it can't be done on C5. Even C6 only would help, although 
I'm hesitating to move my main desktop off 5; the C6 desktop simply doesn't 
have the same stability and performance, and having to log off/log on just 
because PA behaves irratically is really annoying.

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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-28 Thread Always Learning

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 03:05 +, Richard wrote:

> This explains the extension signing, and timeline, a bit:
> 
>   
> 
> Note that the unsigned override that you used is going away with FF47.

Thanks for the link.  I like the idea of a so-called non-FF branded
version (USA english only) which does not re-enforce the Mozilla
Approval requirement.

" How will the unbranded versions of Firefox work? 

" They will work just like Firefox, with two differences:
 they will have a setting to disable mandatory signature checks,
 and they will not have the Firefox name and logo (instead using
  a
generic name and logo). They will be available in the en-US
 locale only. "

Perhaps that might form a suitable replacement for ESR versions ?


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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-28 Thread Always Learning

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 03:05 +, Richard wrote:

> The issue for ESR people is that they didn't get eased into it the
> way standard FF users did - over the course of three releases. FF40
> was released in october of last year, so by now hopefully extension
> developers have gotten their code signed.

It was an unexpected major shock.

The problem remains add-ons just won't install after being downloaded.
Perhaps one should revert to FF 38, re-install add-ons and then upgrade
to FF 45 - then start playing about to get those add-ons to be
re-accepted.

Not exactly my chosen method of making a product "user friendly".


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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-28 Thread Always Learning

On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:27 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
> > Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0
> 
> Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html), and CentOS
> rebuilt and released it.
> 
> What, exactly, would you like the CentOS maintainers to do
> differently?  Are you volunteering your time to help?

I would really like to help but I lack the time with many many demands
on time I don't have.  

Centos might form a special interests group specifically for the
existing Firefox ESR browser. Another poster recently stated Mozilla was
dropping ESR versions which is likely to jeopardise browser stability. 

Ultimately it would be nice for a Firefox folk removing privacy
breeches, phoning home, allowing web sites to secretly store data
(despite options turned-off) and removal of lots of crap unnecessary for
the vast majority of Enterprise users. It could eliminate the constant
changes - often apparently just to amuse Firefox developers - which
users seem to hate.

When using the yum GUI update notification service, no reasons for
updates are visible.

No good issuing a security improvement when, as Johnny replied in
another posting,

" With respect to CentOS-5, it seems this patch was not
 migrated to the 45.0.1 install:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1025187

from this bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221368 "

essential parts were omitted. Perhaps Up-Stream were pre-occupied with
another fundamental change to the product we know and love ? (well, not
C7 yet)

I use Firefox extensively for a multitude of tasks.





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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-28 Thread Richard

> Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 22:27:16 -0400
> From: Jonathan Billings 
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
>>
>> Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR
>> 45.1.0
> 
> Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html), and CentOS
> rebuilt and released it.
> 
> What, exactly, would you like the CentOS maintainers to do
> differently?  Are you volunteering your time to help?

Basically all they did was to move from the old ESR base (38) to the
current one (45) so that they could keep current with the (mozilla)
upstream ESR release branch. I don't believe that the 38ESR that
rhel/centos was running was particularly "customized".

The issue of the signed extension requirement has been in the works
for some time, with implementation starting with FF40. Since the
previous ESR branch was based on 38, ESR didn't see this until just
now when the release was based on 45.

The issue for ESR people is that they didn't get eased into it the
way standard FF users did - over the course of three releases. FF40
was released in october of last year, so by now hopefully extension
developers have gotten their code signed.

This explains the extension signing, and timeline, a bit:

  

Note that the unsigned override that you used is going away with FF47.


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Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
> Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0

Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html), and CentOS
rebuilt and released it.

What, exactly, would you like the CentOS maintainers to do
differently?  Are you volunteering your time to help?

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[CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

2016-04-28 Thread Always Learning

Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0


* All the add-ons (language dictionaries, Adblock Plus, Classic Theme
Restorer etc.) were disabled with no simple method of reactivating them.
Reason given was they were "unsigned".

* About:config
   xpinstall.signatures.required = false
partially reduced the problem.

* Then possible to reactivate some disabled add-ons, but others
down-loaded OK but would not install

* removing files in ~/.mozilla/firefox/.../extensions.* and restarting
was supposed to help

However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded
extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi

Would be really nice if Centos warned its loyal and grateful users of
possible problems before those users trustingly replaced working
programmes with considerable time-wasting problems.

Time spent on trying to return Firefox to a useful and dependable
working tool is unavailable for other tasks :-(



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