MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

[JayM]

There's a problem with 66.0.3. When in Preferences/Search you click on "Find more search engines" at the bottom you are taken to a Google search page instead of to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ . The problem is that in about:config the default value for

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browser.search.searchEnginesURL

is https://www.google.com but in Firefox in other distros it's the addons.mozilla.org page. Kindly see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=108&p=499173#p499173

Per Mozilla's Bugzilla page, after I reported this there, it's likely an issue with the Firefox in MX as they can't reproduce the issue.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

There's a problem with 66.0.3. When in Preferences/Search you click on "Find more search engines" at the bottom you are taken to a Google search page instead of to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ . The problem is that in about:config the default value for

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browser.search.searchEnginesURL

is https://www.google.com but in Firefox in other distros it's the addons.mozilla.org page. Kindly see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=108&p=499173#p499173

Per Mozilla's Bugzilla page, after I reported this there, it's likely an issue with the Firefox in MX as they can't reproduce the issue.

Taking a look at this now and this is due to the "distribution.ini" file we ship with firefox to setup preloaded bookmarks etc. Here is the pertinent section from that file:

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[Preferences]
mozilla.partner.id="mx-linux"
app.distributor="mx-linux"
app.distributor.channel=
browser.search.distributionID="mxlinux.org"
browser.search.searchEnginesURL="https://www.google.com"
browser.search.defaultenginename="Google"
app.update.enabled=false
extensions.update.enabled=true
intl.locale.matchOS=true
browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser=false
browser.newtabpage.enhanced=false

I think we've bee through this before but it's been a while and I'd be happy to change the google pieces to whatever everybody wants in the next release. This file lands in

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/opt/firefox/distribution/

. So you should be able to tinker with it. Just back it up somewhere beforehand.

- mike

[JayM]

Thanks Mike. I just tested with a fresh copy of Firefox that I downloaded from Mozilla and theirs takes me to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ so that's probably what it should also be in MX's Firefox )unless others think differently.)

I tested and after changing that value in the distribution.ini file then restarting Firefox, clicking that link in Preferences/Search took me to the add-ons search engines page as expected.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Thanks Mike. I just tested with a fresh copy of Firefox that I downloaded from Mozilla and theirs takes me to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ so that's probably what it should also be in MX's Firefox )unless others think differently.)

I tested and after changing that value in the distribution.ini file then restarting Firefox, clicking that link in Preferences/Search took me to the add-ons search engines page as expected.

I'll see what I can (break) do

[mmikeinsantarosa]

The search engine "bug" mentioned in this thread has been fixed in firefox-66.0.3..+3. It just showed up for me in synaptic so it might take a while for this update to be reflected in all the mirrors.

- mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

firefox-66.0.5 is now available to upgrade to.

There's not much mentioned on the release notes page other than more work was done to re-enable web extensions.

- mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

firefox-67.0 is ready to upgrade to.

mozilla boasts:

Firefox 67 demonstrates improved performance thanks to a number of changes such as:

Lowering priority of setTimeout during page load
Delayed component initialization until after start up
Painting sooner during page load but less often
Suspending unused tabs

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

firefox-67.0.1 is ready to upgrade to.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

firefox-67.0.2 is ready to upgrade to.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

[Stevo]

Firefox 67.0.4 is now in the main repository and propagating though the mirrors. All users should update, as the update addresses a couple of security exploits already in the wild.