Hello Craig and Brian, On 9/17/20, Craig Sanders via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:29:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> I realised that a computer where this just works has the latest Firefox >> which I downloaded from the Firefox website (now 80.0.1). Instead of the >> ESR >> version supplied with Debian (68.11.0esr). > > 68.11.0esr is what's in testing, right?
Current up to date Debian 10 has Firefox ESR 68.12.0 and no problems here. I have done very little customising, Also I do not invoke FF from an editor, emacs, vi, vim or otherwise. Updates are no longer through synaptic, because of Wayland, I su to root, then run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. There are security issues with sudo, but in the right place, it can be a very valuable tool that I need to sort out enabling. > sid currently has 78.2.0esr > > maybe try that? > > or switch to firefox rather than firefox-esr. I think testing currently > has 79.0. sid has 80.0.1 > > > i used firefox-esr for a while until I had new versions of my plugins (or, > at > least, reasonable replacements for most of them), but i don't really see > any > point to firefox-esr now. It's moved past the version where xul plugins > still > worked, so it's just firefox but a few versions behind. > > craig > > ps: ewwww - upstream binaries. that's unhygienic. Agreed, and it messes with the package management, which is one of the things I most appreciate about Debian and derivatives. I have lived through too much Microsoft dependency hell, and that the early RPM required manually sorting dependencies and manually adding to the command line. > -- > craig sanders <[email protected]> Regards, Mark Trickett _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
