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MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

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mmikeinsantarosa
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#121 Post by mmikeinsantarosa »

We have a new patched version of firefox-60.0.1 +2 that should allow for easier installing and switching language packs. This is all due to input of user fehlix. These are his comments:
This Firefox update provides a semi-automatic activation and enabling of the users locales for the Firefox user-interfaces for new and existing Firefox profiles. A user needs only to install the firefox-language pack from within MX Package Installer (MXPI) to get the UI automatically switched to the user locale. In rar situations it might be required for users with existing profile to disable and enable the language-addon within Firefox. Such race conditions might exists either due to well known MMCM (Mozilla Magic Cache Mystic) or due to the secretly known MMPC (Mozilla Moon Phase Conditions).
We're working on a similar fix for thunderbird as well.

Thanks Fehlix! :number1:

- mike
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#122 Post by oops »

mmikeinsantarosa wrote: Sun May 27, 2018 4:06 pm Thanks Fehlix! :number1:
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#123 Post by mmikeinsantarosa »

firefox-61.0 (will soon be) available to upgrade to from the main repository.

There were several critical security flaws fixed in this one.

For more info, check out the firefox release notes page.

- mike
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#124 Post by mmikeinsantarosa »

firefox_61.0.1 is now in main and ready for you to upgrade to. - mike
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#125 Post by sunrat »

There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working. Fixed in 61.0-2 . Hopefully you worked around that one.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=900469

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#126 Post by stsoh »

sunrat wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working. Fixed in 61.0-2 . Hopefully you worked around that one.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=900469
latest ff 61.0.1, u are referring to 61.0 beta one months ago in may. ff61.0-2 is not ff61.0.1 (latest release in july, see the diff -2 vs .1).
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#127 Post by fehlix »

sunrat wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working...
Spellchecker works in latest version firefox_61.0.1 packaged by mike :number1:
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#128 Post by sunrat »

fehlix wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:59 am
sunrat wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working...
Spellchecker works in latest version firefox_61.0.1 packaged by mike :number1:
Sweet! I was just wondering as 61.0-2 just hit sid.

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#129 Post by Stevo »

For what it's worth, the last 9.5 Stretch update added the build-depends for at least Firefox 61.0.1 in Sid. This includes the llvm-4.0 toolchain, rustc 1.24, and cargo 0.25. This is in preparation for firefox-esr being updated to 60 in Stretch when 52's support ends in September.

I also see that Firefox has switched over to using libavcodec instead of gstreamer for multimedia playback. Debian recommends it so it gets installed by default, but we should add it as a dependency for our packages:

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libavcodec58 | libavcodec57 | libavcodec56 | libavcodec55 | libavcodec54 | libavcodec53
It hasn't come up as an issue and there's no great rush to fix it, since we have libavcodec57 installed in MX by default, but it should be fixed with the next FF update.

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread

#130 Post by mmikeinsantarosa »

Stevo wrote: Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:16 pm For what it's worth, the last 9.5 Stretch update added the build-depends for at least Firefox 61.0.1 in Sid. This includes the llvm-4.0 toolchain, rustc 1.24, and cargo 0.25. This is in preparation for firefox-esr being updated to 60 in Stretch when 52's support ends in September.

I also see that Firefox has switched over to using libavcodec instead of gstreamer for multimedia playback. Debian recommends it so it gets installed by default, but we should add it as a dependency for our packages:

Code: Select all

libavcodec58 | libavcodec57 | libavcodec56 | libavcodec55 | libavcodec54 | libavcodec53
It hasn't come up as an issue and there's no great rush to fix it, since we have libavcodec57 installed in MX by default, but it should be fixed with the next FF update.
Thanks for the note. I just reloaded both laptop and build desktop from scratch. I was getting unable to read errors on sda both of which are SSDs plus I wanted to move my home to it's own drive on the desktop.
LT: MX19.1 Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6820HQ Kernel: 5.0.0-7.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64

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