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Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:42 am
by JayM
There's a problem with 66.0.3. When in Preferences/Search you click on "Find more search engines" at the bottom you are taken to a Google search page instead of to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ . The problem is that in about:config the default value for
is
https://www.google.com but in Firefox in other distros it's the addons.mozilla.org page. Kindly see this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=108&p=499173#p499173
Per Mozilla's Bugzilla page, after I reported this there, it's likely an issue with the Firefox in MX as they can't reproduce the issue.
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:25 am
by mmikeinsantarosa
JayM wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:42 am
There's a problem with 66.0.3. When in Preferences/Search you click on "Find more search engines" at the bottom you are taken to a Google search page instead of to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ . The problem is that in about:config the default value for
is
https://www.google.com but in Firefox in other distros it's the addons.mozilla.org page. Kindly see this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=108&p=499173#p499173
Per Mozilla's Bugzilla page, after I reported this there, it's likely an issue with the Firefox in MX as they can't reproduce the issue.
Taking a look at this now and this is due to the "distribution.ini" file we ship with firefox to setup preloaded bookmarks etc. Here is the pertinent section from that file:
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[Preferences]
mozilla.partner.id="mx-linux"
app.distributor="mx-linux"
app.distributor.channel=
browser.search.distributionID="mxlinux.org"
browser.search.searchEnginesURL="https://www.google.com"
browser.search.defaultenginename="Google"
app.update.enabled=false
extensions.update.enabled=true
intl.locale.matchOS=true
browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser=false
browser.newtabpage.enhanced=false
I think we've bee through this before but it's been a while and I'd be happy to change the google pieces to whatever everybody wants in the next release. This file lands in
. So you should be able to tinker with it. Just back it up somewhere beforehand.
- mike
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:31 am
by JayM
Thanks Mike. I just tested with a fresh copy of Firefox that I downloaded from Mozilla and theirs takes me to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ so that's probably what it should also be in MX's Firefox )unless others think differently.)
I tested and after changing that value in the distribution.ini file then restarting Firefox, clicking that link in Preferences/Search took me to the add-ons search engines page as expected.
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:00 am
by mmikeinsantarosa
JayM wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:31 am
Thanks Mike. I just tested with a fresh copy of Firefox that I downloaded from Mozilla and theirs takes me to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ so that's probably what it should also be in MX's Firefox )unless others think differently.)
I tested and after changing that value in the distribution.ini file then restarting Firefox, clicking that link in Preferences/Search took me to the add-ons search engines page as expected.
I'll see what I can (break) do
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 4:54 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
The search engine "bug" mentioned in
this thread has been fixed in firefox-66.0.3..+3. It just showed up for me in synaptic so it might take a while for this update to be reflected in all the mirrors.
- mike
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 6:40 am
by mmikeinsantarosa
firefox-66.0.5 is now available to upgrade to.
There's not much mentioned on the
release notes page other than more work was done to re-enable web extensions.
- mike
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 9:34 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
firefox-67.0 is ready to upgrade to.
mozilla boasts:
Firefox 67 demonstrates improved performance thanks to a number of changes such as:
Lowering priority of setTimeout during page load
Delayed component initialization until after start up
Painting sooner during page load but less often
Suspending unused tabs
Check the
release notes page for more info.
- mike
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:46 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
firefox-67.0.1 is ready to upgrade to.
Check the
release notes page for more info.
- mike
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:22 pm
by mmikeinsantarosa
firefox-67.0.
2 is ready to upgrade to.
Check the
release notes page for more info.
- mike
Re: MX 17 Repository: The firefox thread
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:00 pm
by Stevo
Firefox 67.0.4 is now in the main repository and propagating though the mirrors. All users should update, as the update addresses a couple of security exploits already in the wild.