[CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

Thu May 9 08:09:13 UTC 2019
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> The price we pay.. :)

Do you say that paying RH customers already received new firefox packages?

Regards,
Simon

>
> BTW, Mozilla publishes tarballs that you can simply extract and run (and
> will self-update), you can use those (it's what I am doing as a workaround
> in fact until RH catches up):
> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/60.6.3esr/linux-x86_64/
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 8 May, 2019 17:24:57
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage
>
>>> I was told lately about this workaround, check it out.
>>> https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/
>>
>> The signing thing is a security feature. I don't like a workaround to
>> disable a security feature instead of fixing it.
>>
>> What makes me feel a bit bad is that everybody has fixed versions by
>> now,
>> only we enterprise Linux users using the ESR version still don't have
>> fixed versions available. I don't complain because we usually get very
>> fast updates, but this time we seem stuck. I can live with it but it's a
>> bit difficult to explain to our users.
>>
>> Did upstream already release new packages?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>>
>>>
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>>> Nux!
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>>>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 8 May, 2019 16:50:20
>>>> Subject: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone, I use firefox on centos 7 at work but due to the fairly
>>>> well know
>>>> extension signing problem, I cannot use ublock origin.
>>>>
>>>> From what I can tell, the latest version of firefox in the updates
>>>> repository is
>>>> 60.6.1-1.el7.
>>>> It looks like Mozilla have just released firefox esr 60.6.2 which
>>>> should
>>>> fix the
>>>> signing issue.
>>>> (see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/60.6.2/releasenotes/)
>>>>
>>>> Would it be possible for someone to pass this message on to someone
>>>> who
>>>> can
>>>> package this, so that users like me can update?
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