[CentOS] Re: Firefox for CentOS

[Yamaban]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 16:56, Johnny Hughes  wrote:

On 03/08/2017 09:39 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Johnny Hughes  wrote:

On 03/08/2017 09:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

Johnny Hughes wrote:

I am currently building the latest Firefox updates and I have noticed
that they have upgraded the CentOS-7 Firefox from the ESR tree (45.8) to
the mainline tree (Currently firefox-52.0).  They have left EL5 and EL6
at the ESR level (45.8.0-2).

EL7:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html

EL5 and EL6:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0459.html

As stated above, I am currently building and testing these, so they are
not yet released .. just preparing people for the changes.


Does anyone know if ESR 52.x will eventually be released for CentOS 6?


I am sure it will, certainly when version 45 goes EOL.

The variables and content to build it on EL6 are in the current EL7
SRPM, but the EL5 stuff is (understandably, since it is going EOL soon)
missing.

What I am not sure of is if EL7 will stay on the Current Release for the
next update or if it will shift back to ESR.


Eh?? There is a slight misunderstanding here.

The Firefox 52.0 Version is released for BOTH, the normal release channel
AND the ESR channel. This was done to have one 6 week periode of overlapp
between the old and the new ESR version, to "ease over" the transistion,
as the 52 version insists on GKT3 and gstreamer 1.x normally.

At this point in time there are TWO ESR releases:
the 45.8.0esr AND the 52.0esr

http://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/45.8.0esr/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-45.8.0esr.tar.bz2
(Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:34:18 GMT)

and:

http://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/52.0esr/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-52.0esr.tar.bz2
(Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:32:42 GMT)

So, if you go for 52, make sure the get the "channel" right
(esr, not release)

Pure personal opinion on 52 is still out, I'm not that hyped, some of my
'beloved' extensions / addons are no longer working on 52 vs 45.

 - Yamaban.
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[CentOS] Re: Firefox and Flash

[Yamaban]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:54, wwp wrote:


Hello Andreas,


On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:03:12 +0200 Andreas Benzler wrote:


Hello every one I installed the official
flash plugin from adobe

About Plugins tells me:

Datei: libflashplayer.so
Pfad: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
Version: 11.2.202.577
Status: Aktiviert (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

But it is:

 strings /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  | grep 616
FlashPlayer_11_2_202_616_FlashPlayer
LNX 11,2,202,616
11.2.202.616
drm/%s/%s/%s/11.2.202.616%s

Any ideas?


On my 3 CentOS 6.5 systems here (all up-to-date), only one shows '577'
whereas 616 is installed and the 577 binary has gone. Strange, I still
didn't get how to "fix" this, even if doesn't sound overcritical to me.


Cause is the file "pluginreg.dat" in the Firefox profile folder.
It stores the version info, but upon updates of the flashplayer,
some times it will not get updated.
Two ways to 'cure' that:

a) Uninstall flash, (Re-)start Firefox,
   close Firefox, install new version, start Firefox.
   (Due to the 'absence' of flash, the 'pluginreg.dat' gets removed, and
   afterwards it will get recreated with the new info)

b) Close firefox, remove 'pluginreg.dat', update flashplayer, start firefox

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[CentOS] Re: FireFox

[Scott Silva]

on 5-29-2008 4:55 AM Daniel de Kok spake the following:

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

It will depend upon if Red Hat will release a version for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. The best bet will be that they will not release it
until RHEL-4.7 goes into beta testing.


It looks like there is a good chance it will be included in 4.7:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2008-May/msg00052.html

(- Added Firefox3)

Take care,
Daniel
RedHat must be trying to cut some of the costs of backporting. They seem 
somewhat more willing to update versions then they used to be.


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[CentOS] Re: FireFox

[Scott Silva]

on 5-27-2008 4:22 PM Robert Spangler spake the following:
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for 
Centos 4.5?  Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and 
I think it should be time for an upgrade.


If I'm looking in the wrong place let me know also.  Thnx.


I wouldn't count on it. CentOS 4 (now at 4.6) is in maintenance only mode, and 
unless someone adds it to plus, I doubt it will make it in.

From the CentOS wiki;

quote

How long will CentOS-4 updates be supported?
We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012.

The current plan is this:

Full Updates (including hardware updates): Currently to Feb 29, 2008

Maintenance Updates: Mar 1, 2008 to Feb 29, 2012


Full Updates - During the Full Updates phase, new hardware support will be 
provided at the discretion of CentOS via Update Sets. Additionally, all 
available and qualified errata will be provided via Update Sets (or 
individually {and immediately} for Security level errata.) Update Sets 
normally will be released 2-4 times per year, with new ISOs released as part 
of each Update Set. In the 4.x numbering scheme, the .x is the number of the 
Update Set.


Maintenance Updates - During the Maintenance updates phase, only Security 
errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released. There will be 
few, if any, Update Sets released.


/quote


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:23 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
 Axel Thimm wrote:
  On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

  I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.
 
  So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
 
  Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
  improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
  look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
 
  I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
  rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.
  
 
  There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean
  rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?

 Yeah, I noticed no FF/TB at ATrpms, but nowhere else either.

wrt a firefox 2 (or thunderbird) install ... they are fairly trivial to
do with the binaries produced by Mozilla.org.

just download and extract the tarballs from mozilla.org and move the
firefox directory (or the thunderbird directory)
to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.x or /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.4.

install compat-libstdc++-33 with yum (or compat-libstdc++-296 ... I
can't remember which)

if you have firefox 1.5 installed:

mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.old

Create a symlink similar to this:

ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.4/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

(you need to to the same for thunderbird ...)

Then you need to take care of any plugins you have installed ... by
moving them from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
and /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.{version}/plugins
to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.4/plugins/

You need to manage upgrades yourself ... I just download the latest
firefox from mozilla and do this again when there are updates.

Note:  In CentOS-5, firefox is a required install for other things ...
so if firefox-1.5 is installed and updated by yum, you will need to
recreate your /usr/bin/firefox symlink to use firefox 2.

I personally use evolution for e-mail and Gran Paradiso (firefox-3
alpha5) as my web browser ...

Trying to replace firefox on CentOS-5 with another RPM is going to be
versy problematic as several other packages are built against it in the
distribution ... but running 2 versions in parallel is not very hard.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Bart Schaefer]

On 6/19/07, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

wrt a firefox 2 (or thunderbird) install ... they are fairly trivial to
do with the binaries produced by Mozilla.org.


Just as a point of interest -- we have one person here who installed
FF2 from the those tarballs on her CentOS 4 machine, and she's been
having problems with it crashing every few days.  I on the other hand
have been running the FF1.5 from the CentOS repos for weeks at a time
without any problem -- the only time I restart it is when I upgrade it
or have to reboot.
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[CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
 I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.
 
 So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.
 
 Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
 improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
 look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?
 
 I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
 rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.

There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean
rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?

 Some advice would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

[Robert Moskowitz]

Axel Thimm wrote:

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:37:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
  

I am making some progress on my Centos 5 notebook build.

So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.

Should I install them?  Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing 
improved here and wait for 3.0?  (well I have not even had a chance to 
look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)?


I have the install steps we covered here back on 2/2/07; but are there 
rpms?  I did not find anything over at ATrpms.



There are no FF/TB rpms at ATrpms, maybe you mean
rpmforge/Dag/plus/extras/karan?
  

Yeah, I noticed no FF/TB at ATrpms, but nowhere else either.


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