read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems.
on opening what moz devs considered as 'latest and greatest', found that it was more crapola from moz devs.
first run was to login with my isp, only to find page would not fully load and a message bar saying;
Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading [Allow]
clicking [Allow] button only cycled with same. 10 more clicks, decided that was enough.
now, i would like to roll back to earlier 40.x, but no can do because of deleting 40.x to make room for new release.
now have /var on it's own partition and have room for updating.
3 questions;
1- anyone else having problems with 45.5.1?
2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x?
3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, will i be able to roll back.
hoping for positive replies to #2 & 3#.
replies/suggestions greatly appreciated.
tia.
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 12:32:29AM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems.
on opening what moz devs considered as 'latest and greatest', found that it was more crapola from moz devs.
For what its worth, 45.5.1 is the version of firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) that fixes this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows.
I haven't noticed any difference in behavior from the previous update.
Hello,
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 10:25:08 -0500 Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 12:32:29AM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems.
on opening what moz devs considered as 'latest and greatest', found that it was more crapola from moz devs.
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I haven't noticed any difference in behavior from the previous update.
Same here, no problem w/ the update.
Regards,
On 12/04/2016 12:32 AM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems.
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3 questions;
1- anyone else having problems with 45.5.1?
2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x?
3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, will i be able to roll back.
hoping for positive replies to #2 & 3#.
replies/suggestions greatly appreciated.
tia.
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after a whole lot of web searching and reading, still found nothing anywhere near to problem.
swag time. opened about:config, "reload" in search bar, toggled names that appeared close.
closed firefox, reopened, all back to normal.
no idea which toggle was correct. when i have nothing better to do, will go back and toggle names 1 by 1 to see which was cause.
Jonathan and wwp, thank you for replying.
any offers for questions 2 & 3?
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 12:46:43PM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x?
3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, will i be able to roll back.
any offers for questions 2 & 3?
Short answer: Don't.
Long answer: You're trying to install arbitrary versions of firefox with known vulnerabilities. You're also using something that isn't supported in CentOS and possibly built against a distro that doesn't have the same build environment and base libraries. It sounds like you've already got a bunch of local customizations that could possibly be preventing a working web browser.
On 12/08/2016 08:04 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 12:46:43PM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x?
3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, will i be able to roll back.
any offers for questions 2 & 3?
Short answer: Don't.
Long answer: You're trying to install arbitrary versions of firefox with known vulnerabilities. You're also using something that isn't supported in CentOS and possibly built against a distro that doesn't have the same build environment and base libraries. It sounds like you've already got a bunch of local customizations that could possibly be preventing a working web browser.
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understood and accepted in relation of firefox.
was not asking for just 40.x, which used as above.
to be more exacting, if should have need for some other package, is there a site which archives centos packages?
for example, in attempting to get vivaldi browser working, even with latest of releases, there are early *.so files showing as missing.
tried a web search, no hits.
with moz devs futzing around with firefox as they have been lately, it would be nice to have another browser handy for sites that firefox does not handle.
On 12/08/2016 09:47 AM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
On 12/08/2016 08:04 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 12:46:43PM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x?
3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, will i be able to roll back.
any offers for questions 2 & 3?
Short answer: Don't.
Long answer: You're trying to install arbitrary versions of firefox with known vulnerabilities. You're also using something that isn't supported in CentOS and possibly built against a distro that doesn't have the same build environment and base libraries. It sounds like you've already got a bunch of local customizations that could possibly be preventing a working web browser.
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understood and accepted in relation of firefox.
was not asking for just 40.x, which used as above.
to be more exacting, if should have need for some other package, is there a site which archives centos packages?
for example, in attempting to get vivaldi browser working, even with latest of releases, there are early *.so files showing as missing.
tried a web search, no hits.
with moz devs futzing around with firefox as they have been lately, it would be nice to have another browser handy for sites that firefox does not handle.
All old centos packages are in vault.centos.org:
However, running packages with known security issues is not recommended.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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