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Firefox-esr-60

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Hi, support for Firefox-esr 52 is ending, and also in slackware current, the new Firefox-esr 60 based on Quantum is available. When will it be available on Salix?
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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According to the FF ESR plan, 52esr will have another release (52.9.0). After that, we'll switch to 60, with 60.2.0. Probably somewhere around August/September.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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I have uploaded FF60esr packages for testing here:
http://people.salixos.org/gapan/firefox/
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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Hello, tried in Salix 14.0.
Apparently cannot start binary

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bash-4.2$ firefox
bash: /usr/bin/firefox: cannot execute binary file
Rolled back to 52.9.0 atm.

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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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Thanks laplume. I didn't think it would be usable in 14.0, but I hadn't tried. I don't know about 14.1 either yet. It could very well be that 59esr is the latest we could have in those.
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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Hello Gapan,
don't think so.
I remember I had downloaded to 60 version binary from Mozilla website, placed in my /home and made it executable. It eventually worked. In case I may try with Ruario's script which I must have somewhere to see it that works as well.
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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Really? Are you on 32bits or 64bits? I need to test this.

EDIT: oh, crap. I see it now. The 32bit package actually contains 64bit binaries. No wonder it doesn't work... Fix is coming up.
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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Great, let me know when the packages is uplosded. I will try it straightaway.

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32bit package updated. Same link.
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Re: Firefox-esr-60

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Thanks, hopefully I will try this evening once I get back home. I would assuem it will work in 14.1 as well it it works in 14.0. Shopuld you need me to try i can set up a VM for that.
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