Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] GTK2 and Firefox 60esr

2018-06-07 Thread James Pearson
Martin Stransky wrote:
>>
>> However, I would also like to know how they plan to support FF60 in 
>> el6 ...
> 
> We're going to ship gtk3 (on some form) for Firefox60 on RHEL6. That
> does not mean gtk3 will be generally available on RHEL6 (AFAIK).

Thanks for the info ...

James Pearson
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Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] GTK2 and Firefox 60esr

2018-06-07 Thread Martin Stransky

On 06/06/2018 06:51 PM, James Pearson wrote:

Andrew C Aitchison wrote:


Just a heads up for anyone running firefox on RHEL6
or clones (CentOS6, Scientific Linux 6 etc) or other
GTK2-based platforms.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses gtk2 in firefox 52.8esr,
but I see from
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282
that Firefox 59 dropped the option to build with gtk2.

In https://access.redhat.com/announcements/3365141
Red Hat talk about plugins and addons with FF60 in RHEL6,
which suggests that they either aren't aware of the gtk2 issue
or have it under control (two very different possibilities).


I believe Red Hat are fully aware :-)

... as they agreed to dropping gtk2 build support - that BZ has the
statement (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282#c3):

"Red Hat can go along with the gtk3 only Firefox when it comes in next
ESR cycle (FF59)."

However, I would also like to know how they plan to support FF60 in el6 ...


We're going to ship gtk3 (on some form) for Firefox60 on RHEL6. That 
does not mean gtk3 will be generally available on RHEL6 (AFAIK).


ma.
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Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] GTK2 and Firefox 60esr

2018-06-06 Thread James Pearson
Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> 
> Just a heads up for anyone running firefox on RHEL6
> or clones (CentOS6, Scientific Linux 6 etc) or other
> GTK2-based platforms.
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses gtk2 in firefox 52.8esr,
> but I see from
>    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282
> that Firefox 59 dropped the option to build with gtk2.
> 
> In https://access.redhat.com/announcements/3365141
> Red Hat talk about plugins and addons with FF60 in RHEL6,
> which suggests that they either aren't aware of the gtk2 issue
> or have it under control (two very different possibilities).

I believe Red Hat are fully aware :-)

... as they agreed to dropping gtk2 build support - that BZ has the 
statement (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282#c3):

"Red Hat can go along with the gtk3 only Firefox when it comes in next 
ESR cycle (FF59)."

However, I would also like to know how they plan to support FF60 in el6 ...

James Pearson
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[Mozilla Enterprise] GTK2 and Firefox 60esr

2018-06-06 Thread Andrew C Aitchison



Just a heads up for anyone running firefox on RHEL6
or clones (CentOS6, Scientific Linux 6 etc) or other
GTK2-based platforms.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses gtk2 in firefox 52.8esr,
but I see from
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282
that Firefox 59 dropped the option to build with gtk2.

In https://access.redhat.com/announcements/3365141
Red Hat talk about plugins and addons with FF60 in RHEL6,
which suggests that they either aren't aware of the gtk2 issue
or have it under control (two very different possibilities).

--
Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
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