enquire for firefox lates version on mx16

[mihail_bc]

hi guys, still on mx 16, everything works great, but I need a newer firefox version on mx, is there any trick to doit?
currently ff version is 61.0
thanks

[Huckleberry Finn]

This may break something, or may/may not install, so, we need to wait for devs, but at least without changing the repos, the FF 105 for MX 21 are here:

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/f/f ... _amd64.deb

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/f/f ... 1_i386.deb


I also see FF 78

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/f/f ... _amd64.deb

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/f/f ... 1_i386.deb

[asqwerth]

MX16 (Debian Jessie) was EOL a few years ago, and in fact, the following MX17/18 (Debian Stretch) are also EOL already.

Any deb you try from a newer MX version may mess up your system so you try at your own risk.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx15-and-mx16-are-end-of-life/

[mihail_bc]

ok then

thanks

[Stevo]

The MX "mozillabinary" packages are just our deb-wrapped static binaries from Mozilla, and are essentially the same for every MX version we package. So, they should install on MX 16 without doing any damage. It's worth a try.

But they may need newer versions of GTK+ or libc6 than Debian 8 can provide.

Hmmmm--Jessie just squeaks in with GTK+3 3.14.5 and libc6 2.19. Go ahead and install the MX 19 or 21 deb!


glibc 2.17 or higher
GTK+ 3.14 or higher
libstdc++ 4.8.1 or higher
X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended)

[mihail_bc]

Hi Stevo

thanks a lot for your reply.
I really care for my current setup, and hence I installed latest Brave browser and seems to work even my mx16 is quite updatetd.
perhaps this is an example that if one of the latest Brave version works perhaps FF will to.
however, Brave imho is not even close to FF speed, features and flexibility, so I stiil want FF as a default.
however i will leave it as it is and when FF fails I will use Brave, untill FF loses all compatibility and then I will for sure try something to install some new FF version.

Thank you again for you time,
best wishes!

[soundtech]

Thanks for this thread. I just installed FF 106.0.2 on MX18. All seems well.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Thank you, too for the feedback :)

[soundtech]

I've been using this method to update FF on my MX18 machine. I got up to 111.0.1 before I ran in to unmet dependencies. Time to move on to MX21 it seems.....or, how far away is MX23?

[chrispop99]

I've been using this method to update FF on my MX18 machine. I got up to 111.0.1 before I ran in to unmet dependencies. Time to move on to MX21 it seems.....or, how far away is MX23?

Best guess from me would be end of Q3, so worth waiting IMHO.

Chris