Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Fri, April 29, 2016 7:22 am, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 04/28/2016 10:20 PM, Always Learning wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:27 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with vers

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 07:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Therefore, I have made a new temporary version available here, for > people who would opt to get the new version and not wait: > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/firefox-45.1.0-1.1.el5.centos/ Wonderful, marvellous and I'm delightful

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 11:21 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > Given: RHEL5 goes end of life on 2017-03-31, which is 47 weeks, 6 days, 13 > hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds from now > > and that even now the updates are limited to critical (ie remote code > execution) pretty much might I suggest now

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

On Fri, April 29, 2016 7:44 am, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 04/29/2016 04:44 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > *snip* >> So what's gone wrong with the Linux Desktop developers? > > I don't know, but that's why I use MATE. MATE was a solution for me too. I used gnome on my FreeBSD workstation and laptop till F

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

On 04/29/2016 04:44 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: *snip* So what's gone wrong with the Linux Desktop developers? I don't know, but that's why I use MATE. I get acceptable performance on my T410 thinkpad with 4GB of memory and outstanding performance on my home built desktop with 16GB of memory. The

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On 04/28/2016 10:20 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:27 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: >>> Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0 >> >> Errr... you mean Red Hat released a se

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

On 04/29/2016 10:21 PM, James Hogarth wrote: On 29 April 2016 at 09:55, isdtor wrote: Always Learning writes: However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On 29 April 2016 at 09:55, isdtor wrote: > Always Learning writes: > > However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded > > extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi > > The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting > that you referenced in a follow-u

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

Always Learning writes: > However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded > extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting that you referenced in a follow-up. What I would really like to see, talking about S

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 03:05 +, Richard wrote: > This explains the extension signing, and timeline, a bit: > > > > Note that the unsigned override that you used is going away with FF47. Thanks for the link. I like the idea of a so-calle

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 03:05 +, Richard wrote: > The issue for ESR people is that they didn't get eased into it the > way standard FF users did - over the course of three releases. FF40 > was released in october of last year, so by now hopefully extension > developers have gotten their code si

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:27 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0 > > Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RH

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

> Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 22:27:16 -0400 > From: Jonathan Billings > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: >> >> Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR >> 45.1.0 > > Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see > https://rh

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:23:32AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0 Errr... you mean Red Hat released a security update (see https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html), and CentOS rebuilt and released it. What, exactly,

[CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare

Centos replaced well-running customise Firefox with version ESR 45.1.0 * All the add-ons (language dictionaries, Adblock Plus, Classic Theme Restorer etc.) were disabled with no simple method of reactivating them. Reason given was they were "unsigned". * About:config xpinstall.signatures.req