MX Linux Forum

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:45 am**

firefox-57.0 is now ready for download from the test repo.

This update is also good for MEPIS12/MX14,15,16.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:57 am**

Is anybody going to make a general announcement about the BIG CHANGES? I found it a real annoyance at first this business-day morning...

EDIT: just got this link in an email, might help

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:34 am**

new ff is great, read this....
https://www.howtogeek.com/332449/whats- ... x-quantum/

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:44 pm**

Here's what's changed:

Version 57.0, first offered to Release channel users on November 14, 2017

Firefox now exclusively supports extensions built using the WebExtension API, and unsupported legacy extensions will no longer work. Learn more about our efforts to improve the performance and security of extensions
The browser's autoscroll feature, as well as scrolling by keyboard input and touch-dragging of scrollbars, now use asynchronous scrolling. These scrolling methods are now similar to other input methods like mousewheel, and provide a smoother scrolling experience
The content process now has a stricter security sandbox that blocks filesystem reading and writing on Linux, similar to the protections for Windows and macOS that shipped in Firefox 56
Middle mouse paste in the content area no longer navigates to URLs by default on Unix systems
Removed the toolbar Share button. If you relied on this feature, you can install the Share Backported extension instead.
Some older versions of the ATOK IME, including ATOK 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010, can cause crashes and are therefore disabled on the Windows 64-bit version of Firefox Quantum. To fix those incompatibility issues, please use a newer version of ATOK or one of other IMEs.
The default font for Japanese text is now Meiryo

More:
Note: In Firefox version 57, in release on November 14, 2017, only extensions built with this new technology will work in Firefox. A majority of the most popular add-ons are already compatible, so most users should not notice any changes.

To see if you have incompatible extensions installed, click the menu button Fx57menu and choose Add-ons (or enter about:addons in a new tab) to open the Add-ons Manager. From there, you should be able to find recommended replacements for any legacy extensions. You can read more about this feature in this Add-ons blog post.

For more information, check out the mozilla site.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:50 pm**

Runs nicely. I may even be lured away from GC The two main addons I use are no issue.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:36 pm**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:Here's what's changed:
Version 57.0, first offered to Release channel users on November 14, 2017

Firefox now exclusively supports extensions built using the WebExtension API, and unsupported legacy extensions will no longer work. Learn more about our efforts to improve the performance and security of extensions
The browser's autoscroll feature, as well as scrolling by keyboard input and touch-dragging of scrollbars, now use asynchronous scrolling. These scrolling methods are now similar to other input methods like mousewheel, and provide a smoother scrolling experience
The content process now has a stricter security sandbox that blocks filesystem reading and writing on Linux, similar to the protections for Windows and macOS that shipped in Firefox 56
Middle mouse paste in the content area no longer navigates to URLs by default on Unix systems
Removed the toolbar Share button. If you relied on this feature, you can install the Share Backported extension instead.
Some older versions of the ATOK IME, including ATOK 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010, can cause crashes and are therefore disabled on the Windows 64-bit version of Firefox Quantum. To fix those incompatibility issues, please use a newer version of ATOK or one of other IMEs.
The default font for Japanese text is now Meiryo

More:
Note: In Firefox version 57, in release on November 14, 2017, only extensions built with this new technology will work in Firefox. A majority of the most popular add-ons are already compatible, so most users should not notice any changes.

To see if you have incompatible extensions installed, click the menu button Fx57menu and choose Add-ons (or enter about:addons in a new tab) to open the Add-ons Manager. From there, you should be able to find recommended replacements for any legacy extensions. You can read more about this feature in this Add-ons blog post.

Thanks, Mike. Maybe Rich (please?) can make a post here in the general announcement forum, then I will post that link with a comment on the social media I oversee.

For more information, check out the mozilla site.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:39 pm**

If anybody that needs the language packs could test this to see what happens, it would be nice to know what to expect and redirect these users to a solution for which I currently don't have.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:44 pm**

Thanks, Mike. Maybe Rich (please?) can make a post here in the general announcement forum, then I will post that link with a comment on the social media I oversee.

Will do.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:52 pm**

If a user still needs to use an extension that is now incompatible with FF 57, there's always firefox-esr from the Debian repository. We should mention that in the announcement.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:59 pm**

Pretty smooth, quick question, is there a way to get rid of window titlebar like in Chrome (it saves a bit of screen real estate).

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:36 pm**

I can't change the interface language with the about:config edits in the Mozilla guide...ordinarily FF is set to match the locale, so we need feedback from users in other locales.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:02 pm**

Adrian wrote:... is there a way to get rid of window titlebar like in Chrome (it saves a bit of screen real estate).

I found this here: http://ccm.net/faq/40304-firefox-how-to ... -title-bar but it's not working for me in MX-16.1, in Customize it doesn't show a Title Bar button for me.

I also found this extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... title-bar/, but it's also not working for me in MX-16.1, it might work with MX-17. There's a .deb you need to download and install with it (hide-title-bar-for-firefox.deb) which has a python3-minimal (>= 3.5) dependency which isn't available in jessie.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:07 pm**

I use the xfce4-windowck-plugin package to get rid of the titlebar of all maximized applications and put the window buttons on the panel. I don't know if that's what you're looking for, though.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:02 pm**

kmathern wrote:
Adrian wrote:... is there a way to get rid of window titlebar like in Chrome (it saves a bit of screen real estate).
I found this here: http://ccm.net/faq/40304-firefox-how-to ... -title-bar but it's not working for me in MX-16.1, in Customize it doesn't show a Title Bar button for me.

I also found this extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... title-bar/, but it's also not working for me in MX-16.1, it might work with MX-17. There's a .deb you need to download and install with it (hide-title-bar-for-firefox.deb) which has a python3-minimal (>= 3.5) dependency which isn't available in jessie.

Neither worked for me in MX 17.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:29 pm**

Stevo wrote:I can't change the interface language with the about:config edits in the Mozilla guide...ordinarily FF is set to match the locale, so we need feedback from users in other locales.

Just downloaded FF57 and language pack from test repo. Asked me to activate the language then everything was perfectly localized after restart.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:43 pm**

cyrilus31 wrote:
Stevo wrote:I can't change the interface language with the about:config edits in the Mozilla guide...ordinarily FF is set to match the locale, so we need feedback from users in other locales.
Just downloaded FF57 and language pack from test repo. Asked me to activate the language then everything was perfectly localized after restart.

Thanks for the test!

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:24 pm**

Weird: in my Virtual Box install of MX 17, Youtube plays triple speed.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:23 pm**

Stevo wrote:Weird: in my Virtual Box install of MX 17, Youtube plays triple speed.

It's just trying to keep up with you

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:59 pm**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:
Stevo wrote:Weird: in my Virtual Box install of MX 17, Youtube plays triple speed.
It's just trying to keep up with you

Set up and use pbuilder, my man. You'll level up for most package builds.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:04 pm**

kmathern wrote:
Adrian wrote:... is there a way to get rid of window titlebar like in Chrome (it saves a bit of screen real estate).
I found this here: http://ccm.net/faq/40304-firefox-how-to ... -title-bar but it's not working for me in MX-16.1, in Customize it doesn't show a Title Bar button for me.

I also found this extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... title-bar/, but it's also not working for me in MX-16.1, it might work with MX-17. There's a .deb you need to download and install with it (hide-title-bar-for-firefox.deb) which has a python3-minimal (>= 3.5) dependency which isn't available in jessie.

Same here on 16.1; need python >=3.5.
Otherwise FF57 lookin' good.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:41 am**

which has a python3-minimal (>= 3.5) dependency which isn't available in jessie.

Guess that should go into the depends list for MX17's builds.

owo - have you tried to build python3-minimal (>= 3.5) on a jessie base?

- mike

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:38 am**

This bothers me with FF 57 on an otherwise very good release: the lines on the Forum are jammed together making it uncomfortable to read. Enough for me to stay with GC.

Firefox:

Selection_015.png

Google Chrome:

Selection_016.png

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:51 am**

I'm not seeing that here on my production machine.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:54 am**

How are your fonts set in FF?

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:09 am**

Preferences > Language and Appearance, font size 20

Is that what you mean?

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:20 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:Preferences > Language and Appearance, font size 20

Is that what you mean?

All parameters in that section, font, size, whether the check box for site controlling fonts is checked.

EDIT: On my laptop it is fine. Graphics driver? never ran into anything like this before regarding line spacing. on a web site due to a driver.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:07 pm**

DejaVu Serif 20, pages allowed to choose their own fonts

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:08 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:DejaVu Serif 20, pages allowed to choose their own fonts

Thanks see the edit on my last post.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:40 pm**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:
which has a python3-minimal (>= 3.5) dependency which isn't available in jessie.
Guess that should go into the depends list for MX17's builds.

owo - have you tried to build python3-minimal (>= 3.5) on a jessie base?

- mike

Python3-minimal is a dependency of python3 in MX 17. No problem there. That dependency on the 3.5 version for the extension is probably due to the ${python3:Depends} substitution variable in the build for that plugin, and would be replaced by the Jessie version in a rebuild on Jessie. Maybe the developer would provide us with the /debian folder they used if we asked nicely. But I see this is the MX 17 thread, and those problems don't apply here.

The update doesn't seem to let me monitor progress of downloads without opening up a separate window any longer, and Download Status Bar is now incompatible. I installed the Download Sound extension so I at least get a sound notification when they finish, but I miss the old features.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:14 pm**

The missing download indicator is seriously annoying...

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:42 pm**

Would it be possible to update Firefox-esr to version 52.5.0 in MX16 and MX17 ?

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.5.0esr/

Thank you for considering my request.
Cheers !!

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:58 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:The missing download indicator is seriously annoying...

The arrow that pops up in the toolbar that you click on to see the download seems sufficient. I do not know what indicator there was before not being an FF user.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:02 pm**

I'm not seeing that with FF 57

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:18 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:I'm not seeing that with FF 57

maybe you have to add it through the customization menu, click anywhere in the toolbar, choose customize and drag the arrow into the toolbar. I may have added it.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:24 pm**

I'll try that

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:29 pm**

By the way, I got reasonable spacing by duplicating your font settings which are mostly default, I believe. I had messed with them after install.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:00 pm**

richb wrote:
Jerry3904 wrote:The missing download indicator is seriously annoying...
The arrow that pops up in the toolbar that you click on to see the download seems sufficient. I do not know what indicator there was before not being an FF user.

Up to 57, there was a tiny progress bar under the arrow with some small text that gave the estimated remaining time. And when you started the download, there was a special effect of a ghostly arrow that shrank and zoomed up into the toolbar to become that arrow.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:07 pm**

57.9 has a glow effect as well when it pops up but no progress bar.
Correction not a glow, an animation.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:36 pm**

Actually, I now see that there is a very tiny working progress bar under the arrow! No doubt the Mozilla developers are all 22 years old and using 30-inch monitors.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:49 pm**

The toolbar icons and hence that bar can be made larger thorough about:config. The layout.css.devPixelsPerPx parameter can be increased. I set it at 1.5 and the progress bar becomes more visible. still hard to see.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:57 am**

nanoSYS wrote:...update Firefox-esr to version 52.5.0

you can get it from security debian repo already.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:49 am**

Thank you dr-kart. Cheers!

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:34 am**

Found the download arrow ... it had been moved to the left for FF57.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:43 pm**

Hmmm...they finally updated the about:mozilla creepy message Easter Egg to allude to some features of the new release, too:

The Beast adopted new raiment and studied the ways of Time and Space and Light and the Flow of energy through the Universe. From its studies, the Beast fashioned new structures from oxidised metal and proclaimed their glories. And the Beast’s followers rejoiced, finding renewed purpose in these teachings.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:14

Play "spot the allusion"! 11:14 is a gimme.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:30 pm**

does anyone aware that ff auto add-on Widevine DRM?
just saw this new drm plugin was added w/o knowing.....

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:36 pm**

stsoh wrote:does anyone aware that ff auto add-on Widevine DRM?
just saw this new drm plugin was added w/o knowing.....

The plugin is pretty old these days (firefox 46?). Its usually auto-added if you go to a site like Netflix for videos or if the "Enable DRM" option is turned on in settings. This setting can be disabled and the plugin removed if its not something you want, as long as you don't need it for video sites.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:42 pm**

wasn't there in the first place, just notice it today.
plugin can't be remove, there is no uninstall or remover.
i set it 'never activate' (disable) and turn 'off' automatic updates'

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:44 pm**

stsoh wrote:wasn't there in the first place, just notice it today.
it can't be remove, i set it 'never activate' (disable) and turn 'off' automatic updates'

hmm... I thought you could remove it when the "Enable DRM" option in settings is disabled. I might well be wrong about that.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:28 pm**

So...anybody for moving 57.0 to main or should we continue to hold off?

- mike

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:34 pm**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:So...anybody for moving 57.0 to main or should we continue to hold off?

- mike

Move it!

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:41 pm**

please do not go to the 57 !! its crap !! i tried it on 5 different distro's no good for me sorry, its faster to open a page that's it, and a lot of add ons do not work anymore sadly

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:47 pm**

tally:
YAY - 1
NAY - 1

...

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:53 pm**

Move it

I don't want to deal with the security messages later on down the road.

Besides, its not like they are going to reverse the changes.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:57 pm**

vortex wrote:please do not go to the 57 !! its crap !! i tried it on 5 different distro's no good for me sorry, its faster to open a page that's it, and a lot of add ons do not work anymore sadly

Moving it to main is not a decision to have it default for MX yet, It will just be in the repos. And even if we decide to make it the default the esr version will always be available.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2017 6:01 pm**

tally:
YAY - 2
NAY - 1

OK, I'll send Tim a PM.
edit: This is for MEPIS12 & MX 14/15/16/17

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:12 am**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:So...anybody for moving 57.0 to main or should we continue to hold off?

- mike

yes, put it on main.
disable adobe flash, DRM, openh254, ff runs fast n superb with enhance tweaks + ublock.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:33 am**

I changed my extension/add on (whatever it is called, I only have one in firefox) around to a supported version before upgrading. Seems to work fine. But boy I find it ugly on the address bar dept. now

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:00 am**

Adrian wrote:Pretty smooth, quick question, is there a way to get rid of window titlebar like in Chrome (it saves a bit of screen real estate).

Menu icon>Customize>Toolbars (at bottom left of page.)

You can toggle Toolbars and Bookmarks bar.

Chris

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:21 am**

Its all a bit different but Colorful Tabs, which was recently unavailable on previous versions, is back. Worth a test if you like [Au]colour[/Au]; coded tabs, although the rounded style was better than this new squared style.

I think each major browser style revision causes some adjustment and conversation until things smooth out a bit and other habits adopted with ongoing use and tweaking. ....I hope )

*Oh yeah there's a small bug for now:

Currently only colors the selected tab due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320585

...which presently ruins the pleasant spectrum of tab shading traditionally seen with Colorful Tabs.

**Important note: Reviewing Preferences settings is highly advisable as they appear to be reset for items like search engine, data collection etc.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:44 am**

Eadwine Rose wrote:But boy I find it ugly on the address bar dept. now

It looks pretty good on Windows 10, which of course would have been the developers' prime goal.

I believe someone will create an extension to have rounded tabs fairly soon.

Chris

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:52 am**

And better fitting tabs.. the active tab looks smaller than the other tabs. This is due to my color scheme by the looks.

Not that I care so much about the looks of firefox, I use chrome as my main browser.. it is just something I noticed that stood out.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:31 pm**

chrispop99 wrote:
Adrian wrote:Pretty smooth, quick question, is there a way to get rid of window titlebar like in Chrome (it saves a bit of screen real estate).
Menu icon>Customize>Toolbars (at bottom left of page.)

You can toggle Toolbars and Bookmarks bar.

Chris

Oops! Sorry for the misinformation - I was checking out Quantum in Windows 10, and the option is there. Didn't realise Linux was the poor relation yet again!

Chris

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:34 pm**

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:48 pm**

richb wrote:F11.

Yep, that's a workaround, but you need to do it each time you start it.

I guess there will be an add-on or the feature will be included eventually.

Chris

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:53 pm**

F11 is not the same, it hides tabs and address bar which is not the desired effect... I know I sound picky...

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:04 pm**

I cannot judge because I have not used FF in years. All I know is it gets rid of the title bar and bookmark bar for the session. I prefer to have them shown. To each his own. Is this lack going to influence whether 57 becomes the default? Fine with me.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:05 pm**

Adrian wrote:F11 is not the same, it hides tabs and address bar which is not the desired effect... I know I sound picky...

You can set the tabs and address bar to not autohide when using F11 (at least I think you can).

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:19 pm**

F11 also hides the MX panel which is not a desirable effect for most people. I guess I will have to tolerate the titlebar until a FF addon to replace HideCaptionTitleBarPlus is written or until FF58 comes out.

I might use Slimjet as my main browser until that time as it has no annoying titlebar.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:57 pm**

Kestrel wrote:F11 also hides the MX panel which is not a desirable effect for most people. I guess I will have to tolerate the titlebar until a FF addon to replace HideCaptionTitleBarPlus is written or until FF58 comes out.

I might use Slimjet as my main browser until that time as it has no annoying titlebar.

What about using the xfce4-windowck-plugin to get rid of the titlebar for all maximized apps?

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:57 am**

Is that in the repos Stevo? I will look into it. Thanks

Found this tip in the FAQ on Stevos link:

"Xfce 4.12 now support Titileless feature!! Enable it in window manager tweaks → accessibility." So without installing the plugin I ticked the relevent box in window manager tweaks and the titlebar vanished. Unfortunately so did the close and minimize buttons.

It works but you have to get used to closing FF by left clicking on the panel because the close box in the upper right is hidden.

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 5:35 am**

The F11 hide feature in FF can be modified to hide the titlebar. It hides the menu bar and bookmarks bar as well Type about:config in the address bar and find browser.fullscreen.autohide. Set the value to false. It will persist thorough browser close and reopen. Probably still not what FF 56 and older users are looking for, but a twist on F11.

Posted: **Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:03 pm**

I never noticed this easy trick with mpv and Firefox. This also requires that youtube-dl is installed.

Start mpv from the menu so you get a empty frame.
Drag and drop a Youtube thumbnail into that frame.
Mpv plays the video with much less CPU use than the browser. On my system, since mpv is using va-api hardware acceleration, that means essentially no cpu use as compared to Firefox pegging my CPU into turbo mode.

To do: experiment with sites other than Youtube.

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 2:51 pm**

firefox-57.0.1 is now available to upgrade to from main.

For more information about this release, check out the mozilla site.

- mike

Posted: **Sat Dec 02, 2017 3:11 pm**

I guess we're going to see a bunch of these for a while until things settle down...

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:18 pm**

There is now a new Download Status Bar that works with FF Quantum: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... tatus-bar/

The developer knows that it's too thick as it is now, but promises to try and get it thinner. Now I can easily monitor my download progress again.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:24 pm**

Another minor update for firefox which now puts us at 57.0.2 is ready to upgrade to.
Check out the mozilla site for more information.

- mike

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:48 pm**

Kestrel wrote:Is that in the repos Stevo? I will look into it. Thanks

Found this tip in the FAQ on Stevos link:

"Xfce 4.12 now support Titileless feature!! Enable it in window manager tweaks → accessibility." So without installing the plugin I ticked the relevent box in window manager tweaks and the titlebar vanished. Unfortunately so did the close and minimize buttons.

It works but you have to get used to closing FF by left clicking on the panel because the close box in the upper right is hidden.

Don't know how i missed that one! thanks!
Pressing alt and clicking on empty space on top will make it easy to move Firefox around, or just alt will give a few more options.

update: just noticed, that clicking on Firefox icon on Cairo dock will minimize or maximize accordingly.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:32 pm**

Firefox 57.0.3 has been released...

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 3:47 pm**

Stevo wrote:Firefox 57.0.3 has been released...

yeah... yeah...
The lp's came down but get-orig-source can't see the new ff yet.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 4:01 pm**

funny, our little script can't see the new thunderbird-52.5.2 either.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 4:11 pm**

richb wrote:The F11 hide feature in FF can be modified to hide the titlebar. It hides the menu bar and bookmarks bar as well Type about:config in the address bar and find browser.fullscreen.autohide. Set the value to false. It will persist thorough browser close and reopen. Probably still not what FF 56 and older users are looking for, but a twist on F11.

I have all my maximized application's titlebars hidden with the xfce4-windowck-plugin. It requires that you also go into the Window Manager Tweaks/Accessiblity settings and enable "hide window titles when maximized".

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:48 am**

Would it be possible to update Firefox- ESR to version 52.5.3 on MX16 and MX17 ?
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.5.3esr/
Thank you for considering my request.
Cheers !! Wish you all a Happy New Year !!

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:25 am**

For security reasons.
one may go to about:config
and change

Code: Select all

signon.autofillForms

to

Code: Select all

false

Here is why we should care: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/2 ... -managers/

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:42 am**

nanoSYS wrote:Would it be possible to update Firefox- ESR to version 52.5.3 on MX16 and MX17 ?
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.5.3esr/
Thank you for considering my request.
Cheers !! Wish you all a Happy New Year !!

We quit providing firefox-esr because debian is already doing that so the effort would be redundant.

firefox-esr-52.5.2 is currently available directly from debian stretch/stable.

- mike

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:38 pm**

dr-kart wrote:For security reasons.
one may go to about:config
and change
Code: Select all
signon.autofillForms
to
Code: Select all
false
Here is why we should care: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/2 ... -managers/

good tip.
i do a search for signon and change all signon boolean true to false.

Posted: **Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:03 pm**

firefox-57.0.4 is now ready for download. This latest release does have a fix to help deal with the Speculative execution side-channel attack ("Spectre"). For more information about what all was fixed, check this link.

Posted: **Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:05 am**

Thanks mike!

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:10 am**

firefox-58.0 is now available to upgrade to. Although this version showed up as a full release, it appears to be a beta.
Here's a link to the developers site and another to the release notes page.

Feel free to post any testing notes here - mike

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:59 am**

firefox-58.0.1 is now available to upgrade to. This one does patch a potential critical security fix

- mike

Posted: **Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:48 am**

firefox-58.0.2 is now available to upgrade to. This one looks to be for some minor bug fixes.

This update is also good for MEPIS 12, MX 14/15/16.

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:08 pm**

firefox-59.0 is available to upgrade to. There is a critical security fix in this release so upgrading is recommended.

Check out the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:10 pm**

Thank you for the update, mmike !

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:37 pm**

Thanks for the update, mmike.
My Win7 crashed on first start-up, but works ok on restarting,
just as mentioned under 'unresolved' on '"what's new in FF59" notes

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:44 pm**

Option to hide titlebar?

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:01 pm**

danielson wrote:Option to hide titlebar?

If you're using Xfce as window manager, you simply have to press [Alt] + [F10] to maximise any window and hide the titlebar.

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:06 pm**

From the firefox help - Turn on the Title bar

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:25 pm**

Unbelievable!

They finally did it!!!

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:31 pm**

I don't have this option, even after restoring defaults or without maximizing the window.

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:53 pm**

k_sz wrote:I don't have this option, even after restoring defaults or without maximizing the window.

Same here, AFAICT.

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  inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) driver: intel Resolution: 1366x768@59.97hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Int

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:58 pm**

bottom left corner of the window. I didn't see it at first neither

image

edit: I'd checked a fresh 59.0 on my work PC and found it. I do not see it in the linux version

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:05 pm**

We don't need them :D If i remember correctly, i've been using a little daemon called "devilspie" ~10 years ago wich, among other things, was capable of removing the decoration of choosed windows.

Edit : and it seems that it has a successor : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/devilspie2

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:02 pm**

You can get rid of the title bar for any maximized window in our XFCE by using the xfce4-windowck-plugin in the panel. The titlebar buttons appear in the taskbar.

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:20 pm**

My FireFox 59.0 does not provide a GUI choice which affects the presence
or absence of a Title line for the browser. I find that there is indeed
an Xfce4 toggle Alt-F10 which may be enabled to provide somewhat this
function on any Xfce4 window, not just FF59.

Unfortunately, this toggle built-in to MX is disabled by default and hard
to locate just how to enable it. This toggle may be enabled on an MX GUI
from the MX main menu at
Sessions>Window Manager Tweaks>Accessibility>by checking the third box,
labelled 'Hide title of windows when maximized', which may have been
unchecked by default; mine was.

Actually, the Alt-F10 toggle not only toggles-off the window Title area
but also maximizes the window thus maximally enlarging the viewable
screen area. This MX GUI might better be labelled something more like
'Enable Alt-F10 toggle of viewable window area'.

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:59 pm**

Post 103 was written for upgraded 64-bit MX 17 beta 3 and Firefox 59.0.

For 64-bit MX-17.1, Alt-F10 toggle is enabled by default and works as described in post 103;
The work-around described in post 103 is not needed, nor AFAICT no longer even possible for MX-17.1.
The absence of a Title Bar tweak for FF59 per se still pertains, and may be related to Graphics;
mine are Intel GM45, which I expect may be somewhat limited relative to more current or more
expensive Graphics.

TJH

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2018 3:34 pm**

Just updated to last Firefox 59-version and recognized: german language pack doesn't work. This is widely reported in several forums.
Here's a workaround (from an Arch-Linux forum). Works on my MX16 and MX17 machines : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 4#p1773834
Greetings from Lower Saxony

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:34 pm**

Isn't there another shortcut to minimize the browser window (alt+F10 doesn't do a thing for me with 'Hide title of windows when maximized')?

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:03 pm**

firefox-59.0.1 is now available to upgrade to.

Check the release notes page for more information.

- mike

Posted: **Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:03 am**

firefox-59.0.2 is available to upgrade to. there is one minor security fix in this release.

Check the mozilla release notes page for more information.

- mike

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 9:06 am**

firefox_59.0.3 is now ready to upgrade to.

It looks like there was just a fix for Win10 compatibility in this one.

check the release notes page for more info.

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 9:14 am**

Thanks :)

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2018 8:57 pm**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote:firefox_59.0.3 is now ready to upgrade to.

Looks like latest prefs regarding the default localizations did not find the way into distribution.ini file as tweaked alreaedy by D_O.
But wait a day or two I'm just doing some more testing to add some further prefs
as it appears in some cases the default localization is not showing up as intended yet.

Posted: **Sat May 12, 2018 8:54 pm**

firefox-60.0 is now available to upgrade to.
Check the mozilla release notes page for more info. There was one security fix in this one so probably a good idea to install this one.

CVE-2018-5154: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths

Reporter: Nils
Impact: high

Description: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while enumerating attributes during SVG animations with clip paths. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

This update is also good for MX-14 thru 16.

- mike

Posted: **Sat May 12, 2018 10:10 pm**

Firefox-60.0 is the freeze and crash version. I hope they fix it.

Posted: **Sat May 12, 2018 10:19 pm**

I stopped using Firefox when they introduced that nonsense that stopped most add ons working. Waterfox is in the repos and is just like the old style Firefox.

Posted: **Sat May 12, 2018 10:39 pm**

turtlebay777 wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 10:19 pm I stopped using Firefox when they introduced that nonsense that stopped most add ons working. Waterfox is in the repos and is just like the old style Firefox.

I don't see it in the MX repo. Where is Waterfox?

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2018 8:22 am**

Well, I have now found some time to dig in to the localzation issue of firefox and thunderbird.
As mentioned the above preferences did not cover all scenarios regarding localization.
I made some further testing with the results showing below. Here we go:

Firefox & Thunderbird: Localization
How to get language packs for Firefox and Thunderbird enabled automatically?

Current Situation:
The user starts MX-live or the freshly installed MX-Linux with a selected default language.
After starting Firefox or Thunderbird (FF/TB) the user interface (UI) is shown in English instead of the chosen system language. The user will go into MX package installer (MXPI) to install the missing language pack. The user might still not have the default UI-language after starting FF/TB again. S/he either need first to confirm and enable the new language pack and restart FB/TB. In some cases the user might still not have the correct UI-language despite having enabled the language pack manually within FF/TB.

Requirements:
- System wide installed language-pack plugins shall be got automatically enabled:
-> for current selected default system language
-> without manually enabling and without user confirmation
-> for first time login
-> for newly created FF/TB profiles
-> for existing FF/TB profiles
- Manually installed user plugins/extensions would still need to be confirmed and enabled by the user

Solution:
Firefox and Thunderbird honors some system preferences to achieve the above requirements.
The following preferences will fulfill the requirements above
for both Firefox and Thundebird (verfied with FF60.0 and TB52.7):

Pref-filename: distribution.js
Pref-directory FF: /opt/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences
Pref-directory TB: /opt/thunderbird/defaults/preferences/

The preference file distribution.js :

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// filename: distribution.js
// pref-dir: /opt/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/
//         : /opt/thunderbird/defaults/preferences/
pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);
pref("intl.locale.requested", "");
pref("extensions.enabledScopes", 4);
pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 11);

The following places where system-wide preferences could also have been specified will NOT work to satisfy the above requirements due to timing issue during sequence of UI-generation:
- distribution.ini within /opt/thunderbird/distribution or /opt/firefox/distribution, resp.
- preferences within the pref-dirs /opt/firefox/defaults/pref and /opt/thunderbird/defaults/pref, resp.
/opt/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini

Note:
The language pack provided for thunderbird from MXPI will NOT cover the localization of the embedded calendar lightning-extension.
In order to get the thunderbird calendar localized the user would need to manual install the corresponding localized lightning-calendar-plugin.

Suggestion:
To automatically enable localized calendar a package request is suggested to have the localized lightning-calendar-plugin for thunderbird as part of the language pack available through MXPI.

Package-Hint:
The localized lightning-extension is availble by mozilla as a xpi-file with
the filename format lightning-X.X-sm+tb-linux.xpi (X.X indicating the version).
The extension file has to be renamed to {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}.xpi
and placed with the distribution externsion directory as
/opt/thunderbird/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}.xpi

Wiki:
The Wiki entries regarding localization shall be updated
correspondingly to reflect the automatic localization process above,
when in place.

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2018 9:25 am**

Great work, thanks. I already modified the Firefox Wiki entry somewhat, and will monitor both as this moves forward.

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2018 9:46 am**

That's is really funny.. whaou? how it's possible ? I have the language FR in T.B. but not for F.F. it's always the same trouble , how it's possible to have that ? I'm go to "about-config" ===>& about what is new name "intl.locale.requested fr.FR" and ...good for T.B not for Firefox60 incredible ? I have 14 Oss in my PC, never I have the same trouble shooting language for F.F. 60, very strange? no? see u soon

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2018 10:01 am**

jibel wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 9:46 am That's is really funny.. whaou? how it's possible ? I have the language FR in T.B. but not for F.F. it's always the same trouble , how it's possible to have that ? I'm go to "about-config" ===>& about what is new name "intl.locale.requested fr.FR" and ...good for T.B not for Firefox60 incredible ? I have 14 Oss in my PC, never I have the same trouble shooting language for F.F. 60, very strange? no? see u soon

In TB we have still the old pref intl.locale.matchOS=true.
In latest FF and in future also in TB we need to have intl.locale.requested="".
Both will than use system LANG automatically!
No need to set intl.locale.requested="fr_FR".
Better leave it empty like intl.locale.requested="".
The above solution I posted will fix this issue for you automatically!
Don't worry! We'll fix it

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2018 10:35 am**

@fehix,
Thanks no problem, .. But it's not a real trouble for me ...I used it without, but I return on MX17 for change the modify return on "intl.locale.requested" free see u soon

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2018 4:06 pm**

We have a new patched version of firefox-60.0.1 +2 that should allow for easier installing and switching language packs. This is all due to input of user fehlix. These are his comments:

This Firefox update provides a semi-automatic activation and enabling of the users locales for the Firefox user-interfaces for new and existing Firefox profiles. A user needs only to install the firefox-language pack from within MX Package Installer (MXPI) to get the UI automatically switched to the user locale. In rar situations it might be required for users with existing profile to disable and enable the language-addon within Firefox. Such race conditions might exists either due to well known MMCM (Mozilla Magic Cache Mystic) or due to the secretly known MMPC (Mozilla Moon Phase Conditions).

We're working on a similar fix for thunderbird as well.

Thanks Fehlix!

- mike

Posted: **Sun May 27, 2018 5:30 pm**

mmikeinsantarosa wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 4:06 pm Thanks Fehlix!

+1

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:26 pm**

firefox-61.0 (will soon be) available to upgrade to from the main repository.

There were several critical security flaws fixed in this one.

For more info, check out the firefox release notes page.

- mike

Posted: **Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:24 pm**

firefox_61.0.1 is now in main and ready for you to upgrade to. - mike

Posted: **Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am**

There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working. Fixed in 61.0-2 . Hopefully you worked around that one.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=900469

Posted: **Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:16 am**

sunrat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working. Fixed in 61.0-2 . Hopefully you worked around that one.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=900469

latest ff 61.0.1, u are referring to 61.0 beta one months ago in may. ff61.0-2 is not ff61.0.1 (latest release in july, see the diff -2 vs .1).

Posted: **Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:59 am**

sunrat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working...

Spellchecker works in latest version firefox_61.0.1 packaged by mike

Posted: **Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:00 am**

fehlix wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:59 am
sunrat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:10 am There was an issue in 61.0-1 with dictionaries not working...
Spellchecker works in latest version firefox_61.0.1 packaged by mike

Sweet! I was just wondering as 61.0-2 just hit sid.

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:16 pm**

For what it's worth, the last 9.5 Stretch update added the build-depends for at least Firefox 61.0.1 in Sid. This includes the llvm-4.0 toolchain, rustc 1.24, and cargo 0.25. This is in preparation for firefox-esr being updated to 60 in Stretch when 52's support ends in September.

I also see that Firefox has switched over to using libavcodec instead of gstreamer for multimedia playback. Debian recommends it so it gets installed by default, but we should add it as a dependency for our packages:

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libavcodec58 | libavcodec57 | libavcodec56 | libavcodec55 | libavcodec54 | libavcodec53

It hasn't come up as an issue and there's no great rush to fix it, since we have libavcodec57 installed in MX by default, but it should be fixed with the next FF update.

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:55 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:16 pm For what it's worth, the last 9.5 Stretch update added the build-depends for at least Firefox 61.0.1 in Sid. This includes the llvm-4.0 toolchain, rustc 1.24, and cargo 0.25. This is in preparation for firefox-esr being updated to 60 in Stretch when 52's support ends in September.

I also see that Firefox has switched over to using libavcodec instead of gstreamer for multimedia playback. Debian recommends it so it gets installed by default, but we should add it as a dependency for our packages:
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libavcodec58 | libavcodec57 | libavcodec56 | libavcodec55 | libavcodec54 | libavcodec53
It hasn't come up as an issue and there's no great rush to fix it, since we have libavcodec57 installed in MX by default, but it should be fixed with the next FF update.

Thanks for the note. I just reloaded both laptop and build desktop from scratch. I was getting unable to read errors on sda both of which are SSDs plus I wanted to move my home to it's own drive on the desktop.

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:18 pm**

Whoops, I wrote too soon. Debian hasn't added any cargo packages yet...which is odd, because you need it to build rustc.

Posted: **Sat Aug 11, 2018 3:53 pm**

firefox-61.0.2 is now available to upgrade to. We're holding back on the switch to libavcodec for now.

Feel free to check the mozilla release notes page for more info.

This update is also good for MX 14, 15 & 16.

- mike

Posted: **Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:33 pm**

firefox_62.0 is available to upgrade to.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:05 pm**

Suddenly, video playback is broken on mlb.com with the latest Firefox, while it continues to work on Pale Moon 28.0.1.
I have both libavcodec57 and libavcodec58 installed. Can any one else check this? They have some that are supposed to play automatically on the mlb.com home page, and I also dug deeper into the site--none of them work now.

I also tried on a different "generic" MX 17.1 install and had the same failures.

Posted: **Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:28 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:05 pm Suddenly, video playback is broken on mlb.com with the latest Firefox, while it continues to work on Pale Moon 28.0.1.
I have both libavcodec57 and libavcodec58 installed. Can any one else check this? They have some that are supposed to play automatically on the mlb.com home page, and I also dug deeper into the site--none of them work now.

I also tried on a different "generic" MX 17.1 install and had the same failures.

I can whatch thos video's with no issues with both latest PM 28.0.1 and FF 62.0~mozillabinaries-1mx17+1.
My settings: with in both: blocking with umatrix and uBlock-origin most stuff per default,
having manual enabled only mlb.com mlbstatic.com.
In additon disabaled autoplayback in about:config.

Posted: **Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:40 pm**

Videos are playing fine on Firefox 62.0.

Posted: **Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:44 pm**

FF-62.0 playing here AOK sample mlb video

Posted: **Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:08 pm**

Well, I probably have something blocking it, though I turned off uBlock Orign for the site. After about 15 seconds, I get a yellow bar notification that something's blocking a script on the page, and do I want to cancel it... Let me try in safe mode.

In other Firefox related news, I was finally able to do a test package build of Stretch's new Firefox-esr 60.0 by adding

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export SHELL=/bin/sh

to the beginning of the rules file. Apparently MX doesn't set SHELL in the environment at all...odd. We'd also probably be able to backport 62.0 from Sid if we ever had the need to do do, though right now I think repackaging the Mozilla binaries are still going to be our best bet.

Posted: **Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:37 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:08 pm Well, I probably have something blocking it, though I turned off uBlock Orign for the site. After about 15 seconds, I get a yellow bar notification that something's blocking a script on the page, and do I want to cancel it... Let me try in safe mode.

It's not that because have uBlock Origin and httpseverywhere on FF 62.0 and I use Astrill VPN in stealth mode and the videos play fine. I also have all telemetry disabled and Full Screen notice set to zero in about:config

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:54 am**

Just to let you know that my Waterfox 56.2.2 (64bit) works perfectly and plays all videos.

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:16 pm**

Well, now the videos are working again without me doing anything. So it's either some random glitch that lasted a few days, or the local ISP is testing their throttling for this big streaming site.

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:40 pm**

You probably tripped some "Way-too-cool-wildlife" filter with all the coyote videos and they blocked you

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:16 am**

firefox-62.0.2 is now available to upgrade to from main.

Several bugs fixed in this release.

- mike

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:22 pm**

I noticed that Firefox will now prompt you to restart if you upgrade while it's running now. That's nice, since it just used to crash if you upgraded while it was running.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:29 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:22 pm I noticed that Firefox will now prompt you to restart if you upgrade while it's running now. That's nice, since it just used to crash if you upgraded while it was running.

Less things crashing is a good thing. I also noticed the crash in previous releases.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:58 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:22 pm I noticed that Firefox will now prompt you to restart if you upgrade while it's running now. That's nice, since it just used to crash if you upgraded while it was running.

It didn't for me, no prompt at all. But after I did the MX Linux updates this morning while having Firefox open, I went to click on a link I ended up with a blank Firefox window. I used uncommon sense which was to close Firefox and restarted it and it worked fine.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2018 6:26 pm**

When I tried to open a new page after the upgrade, it showed me the prompt to restart after the background update instead of just going to the new page. However, it just closed and never restarted after I hit the "Restart" button in the notice, so I started it manually.

Posted: **Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:50 pm**

Now updated to the latest 62.0.3 release in the main repo.

Posted: **Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:08 am**

And now firefox-63.0 is available from main.

check the release notes page for more info.

Posted: **Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:15 am**

Thanks.

Posted: **Sat Nov 03, 2018 3:41 am**

In FF 63.0 there is no possibility to disable browser autoupdate in settings or about:config.

One way is by using addon "Enterprise Policy Generator" to "DisableAppUpdate-Policy".
It generates policies.json.

I don't like a lot of addons, so disabled update by hand.

Create policies.json -> .mozilla/firefox/yourprofile.default/distribution/

fill in:
{
"policies": {
"DisableAppUpdate": true
}
}

worked perfect in 63.0

Just see in synaptic FF update to 63.01 is present, maybe this workaround is now useless ...

or use "manually" policy generator for lot of other parameters,
templates see: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/

Posted: **Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:11 am**

firefox-63.0.3 is now in the repos

I don't see anything big in this release but you can check the release notes page for more info. - mike

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2018 6:26 am**

Hi guys,

Is there a way to get totally rid of MX website start page in MX Firefox releases ? Sorry, I do not want to be rude. It's only my opinion, but I think it would be better to add a simple default MX website bookmark in MX Firefox settings.

Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:40 am**

zorzi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 6:26 am Is there a way to get totally rid of MX website start page in MX Firefox releases ?

Yes, just drag any url you like onto the home-icon in firefox to set your own start-page.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:45 am**

fehlix wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:40 am
zorzi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 6:26 am Is there a way to get totally rid of MX website start page in MX Firefox releases ?
Yes, just drag any url you like onto the home-icon in firefox to set your own start-page.

Hi Fehlix,

Thanks for answering. But I can't help thinking Firefox default settings should not be altered in any way. Some users enjoy using Firefox default home/start page.

Just linking to MX website with a bookmark is less intrusive/invasive in my opinion.

That was the goal of my suggestion. Maybe I'm too maniac...

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:01 am**

zorzi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:45 am But I can't help thinking Firefox default settings should not be altered in any way.

Hmm.. on the other side I can't think of any distro not setting somehow the default startpage distro specific.
The bookmarks are already available for MX Linux, MX Foum, antiX and antiX Forum, visible in the bookmark toolbar, if enabled.
I might miss something, but I can't see your point.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:28 am**

fehlix wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:01 am
zorzi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:45 am But I can't help thinking Firefox default settings should not be altered in any way.
Hmm.. on the other side I can't think of any distro not setting somehow the default startpage distro specific.
The bookmarks are already available for MX Linux, MX Foum, antiX and antiX Forum, visible in the bookmark toolbar, if enabled.
I might miss something, but I can't see your point.

Of course, I also have in mind some distros providing little Firefox tweaks. But in most of cases only bookmarks or website directing at first boot.

God knows I bless MX Linux every day.

Posted: **Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:08 am**

On first initiation I am for showing the Community Website. The initial opening with the Community Website gives excellent information on MX and a new user would benefit from it. The home page is so easily changed for future openings in FF.

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:56 am**

firefox_64.0 is up and ready for download from main.

Check out the release notes page for what's new.

mozilla is still working on the release notes page.

Until it's completed the 64.0beta page has some info

- mike

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:54 pm**

Upgraded and working fine so far! No sluggggishness...

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:43 pm**

Oh, they did remove the ability to open an rss feed as a web page, but they did say they were going to do that to be like every other big browser. I guess Pale Moon and SeaMoney can still do that, though.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:29 am**

Hello,

Maybe Firefox MX tweaks could be improved by removing the browser update/download notification.

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=7423

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:45 am**

Stevo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:43 pmOh, they did remove the ability to open an rss feed as a web page

That caught me by surprise, too. Switching to 60-esr restores the functionality for another 10 months or so, but still...

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:04 pm**

zorzi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:29 am Hello,

Maybe Firefox MX tweaks could be improved by removing the browser update/download notification.

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=7423

That looks like it could be added to our "distribution.ini" configuration file.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:52 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:04 pm
zorzi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:29 am Hello,

Maybe Firefox MX tweaks could be improved by removing the browser update/download notification.

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=7423
That looks like it could be added to our "distribution.ini" configuration file.

I am booked up until Sat. If anybody else has time to get this in before then, go for it.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:33 am**

Stevo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:04 pm
zorzi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:29 am Hello,

Maybe Firefox MX tweaks could be improved by removing the browser update/download notification.

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=7423
That looks like it could be added to our "distribution.ini" configuration file.

Where's the distribution.ini file stored ?

Reading the following thread, I understand that update notification can only be disabled via policies.json

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/issues/310

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:21 am**

zorzi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:33 am
Stevo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:04 pm
zorzi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:29 am Hello,

Maybe Firefox MX tweaks could be improved by removing the browser update/download notification.

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=7423
That looks like it could be added to our "distribution.ini" configuration file.
Where's the distribution.ini file stored ?

Reading the following thread, I understand that update notification can only be disabled via policies.json

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/issues/310

The install process puts it in

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/opt/firefox/distribution

- mike

Posted: **Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:15 pm**

zorzi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:33 am
Stevo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:04 pm
zorzi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:29 am Hello,

Maybe Firefox MX tweaks could be improved by removing the browser update/download notification.

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=7423
That looks like it could be added to our "distribution.ini" configuration file.
Where's the distribution.ini file stored ?

Reading the following thread, I understand that update notification can only be disabled via policies.json

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/issues/310

Our distribution.ini file already disables the update nag, as far as I know. The user can turn it back on manually.

From about:config Menu

Type “about:config” in the address bar, then press “Enter“.
Search for the “app.update.auto” setting.
Double-click the “app.update.auto” option to toggle the setting. If set to “true“, automatic updates are enabled. If set to “false“, automatic updates are disabled.

Though maybe that's just the update, and not the nag.

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:29 am**

firefox-65.0 should be showing up in your update list from synaptic.

Enhanced security for macOS, Linux, and Android users via stronger stack smashing protection which is now enabled by default for all platforms. "Stack smashing" is a common security attack in which malicious actors corrupt or take control of a vulnerable program.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:14 pm**

firefox-65.0.1 is available to upgrade to.

There were a couple minor security issues fixed n this one.

Check the releasse notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:56 am**

We have firefox-66.0 in main now.

It's probably a good idea to upgrade now as there were a couple of critical security vulnerabilities fixed in this one.

Check out the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:17 pm**

Should we wait a bit on this? My synaptic, after a reload, says:

GPG error: http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX (antix repo) <antix@daveserver.info>The repository 'http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch InRelease' is not signed.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:23 pm**

TJ Hoye wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:17 pm Should we wait a bit on this? My synaptic, after a reload, says:

GPG error: http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX (antix repo) <antix@daveserver.info>The repository 'http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch InRelease' is not signed.

Check synaptic to make sure the package antix-archive-keyring is at rev 20019.3.13 and if it's not update it and try again.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:38 pm**

Installed and working well!

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2019 6:08 am**

Stevo wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:38 pm Installed and working well!

Thanks for the testing post.

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:55 am**

firefox-66.0.2 is ready to upgrade to.

I didn't see any big fixes in this one but in case you want to see for yourself, the release notes page can be viewed here.

- mike

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:45 pm**

Working fine so far.

As an experiment, I tried using uscan instead of "get-orig-source" to get the newer source files, but it just got the 64-bit tarball, so obviously the debian/watch file needs to be reworked to work with uscan.

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:27 pm**

Stevo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:45 pm As an experiment, I tried using uscan instead of "get-orig-source" to get the newer source files, but it just got the 64-bit tarball, so obviously the debian/watch file needs to be reworked to work with uscan.

As far as I know uscan will only download one upstream source tarball file at a time, but we include both the 32bit & 64bit tarballs in our firefox_xx.y.z.orig.tar.xz source, so uscan needs to be run twice (once for each architecture).

The "get-orig-source" command uses uscan and the debian/watch-i386 watch file to download the 32bit tarballs from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/xx.y.z/linux-i686/en-US/

And it uses the debian/watch-amd64 watch file with uscan to download the 64bit tarballs from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/xx.y.z/linux-x86_64/en-US/

Also the debian/watch file is the same as the debian/watch-amd64 file.

uscan uses the debian/watch file by default if you don't specify with the --watchfile option which watch file to use, so it also downloads the 64bit tarball ("get-orig-source" uses the --watchfile option in it's uscan calls).

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:50 pm**

Yes, probably best not to poke a stick into what's working.

Uscan does work well for real source code: I just used it to get and "dfsg-y" a KeepassXC 2.4.0 source tarball.

Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:49 am**

firefox-66.0.3 is available to upgrade to now from main.

I didn't see any security updates in this one and as always, feel free to check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **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

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browser.search.searchEnginesURL

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.

Posted: **Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:25 am**

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
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browser.search.searchEnginesURL
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

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/opt/firefox/distribution/

. So you should be able to tinker with it. Just back it up somewhere beforehand.

- mike

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:00 am**

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

Posted: **Sat May 04, 2019 4:54 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu May 09, 2019 6:40 am**

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

Posted: **Tue May 21, 2019 9:34 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:46 pm**

firefox-67.0.1 is ready to upgrade to.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:22 pm**

firefox-67.0.2 is ready to upgrade to.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:00 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:07 pm**

firefox-68.0.1 is ready for download. This one appears to be a maintenance release.

Check the release note page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:32 pm**

firefox-68.0.2 is probably already showing up as an update. This one also appears to be a maintenance release with only 2 moderate security fixes.

Check the release note page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:18 pm**

Updated to 69.0.1.

Posted: **Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:18 pm**

firefox-69.0.2 looks to be a maintenance release with no security fixes.

Check the release note page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:36 am**

firefox-69.0.3 is now in main.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:19 pm**

firefox-70.0 is now in main.

There were 2 critical, 2 high and 8 moderate security fixes made in this release.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:26 pm**

firefox-70.0.1 is now in main.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2019 4:44 pm**

firefox-71.0 is now in main.

There were 7 High & 5 Moderate security fixes in this release.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:52 pm**

firefox-72.0.1 is now in main.

There were 2 critical security fixes in this release.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:09 pm**

firefox-74.0 is now in main.

There were 6 High, 6 moderate & 1 low level security fixes made in this release.

Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

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