James Pearson wrote: > > I know CentOS don't have inside info on what Redhat may or may not do in > the future - plus Redhat don't usually announce publicly what their > future plans are - but on the off-chance that someone on this list may know: > > Does anyone know what Redhat are likely to do with the next major > release of Firefox on RHEL (and hence CentOS) ? > > The reason I ask, is that RHEL has been supplying the 'ESR' (Extended > Support Release) version of Firefox - which Mozilla supports for about a > year - and RHEL moves to each new ESR version before Mozilla drops > support for the previous version. > > Up until the current version of ESR (52), the major versions have been > mostly compatible, but the next release of ESR (60) has some major > changes - which include: > > * No support for NPAPI plugins - except for Flash - i.e. no support for > plugins like Java etc > > * No support for XUL/XPCOM/legacy add-ons - will only support > 'WebExtensions' > > * Requires gtk3 run-time support - which isn't available with > RHEL/CentOS 6 (currently Firefox for both el6 and el7 use the gtk2 > run-time libraries) > > > I know it's a long shot, but I'm just trying to work out what changes I > will need to make when ESR 52 reaches its EOL in August this year ... Maybe this is just coincidence, but I've just noticed the following Red Hat Announcement: https://access.redhat.com/announcements/3365141 which is dated the day after I sent the above post ... :-) James Pearson