Firefox 3.5.6 Upgrade
 

Anyone built the latest release?

Here's the source: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or.../3.5.6/source/

Security Fixes: http://www.mozilla.org/security/know...l#firefox3.5.6

I'm currently downloading the source and will build and report back how it goes.

Regards

Done :D

you forget pycairo

# ls /var/log/packages | grep cairo
cairo-1.8.6-x86_64-3
pycairo-1.8.4-x86_64-3

:)

It's working without pycairo upgrade so I didn't notice.
EDIT: Updated with pycairo info. Thanks JokerBoy.

Regards

no, i thank you :p

Are the SlackBuild scripts inside the packages? Do I have to explodepkg <package name> to find the scripts?

Regards,
Mats

I'll give it a try when it's in the current tree. I should think it will be in a few days.

It's a matter of looking good actually... latest public update "Thu Dec 17 20:51:37 UTC 2009" contains the new firefox but it has not hit all mirrors yet apparently.

Eric

Hi,
Just edited the 3.5.5 Slackbuilds and built the 3.5.6 package using the new source. cairo needed upgrading as well.

Regards

As Eric pointed out, you can get it from -current. Here is a mirror that has it.

Regards

Just to clarify, firefox is unable to update itself and I should get later slack packages?

Hi,

No firefox won't update itself. You can either wait for the packages to hit in the mirror you selected and get it by using slackpkg, or download the slackbuild and compile and upgrade yourself.

Regards

Just booted into Slack. Firefox 3.5.6 is now in the current tree and so is KDE 4.3.4 so I'm upgrading it right now :)

From 'Current Changeelog':
Can someone explain this to me please?. Does it mean a bug on MS Windows?. If so, why the upgrade on Linux?.

Bill.

Hmm.

Firefox still has the update options in preferences. Is the functionality not there to match?

Would this never work? Why could it not?

Launch firefox as root and check. Not sure.

EDIT: I marked this thread as SOLVED, since the official packages are now available in both -current and 13.0 mirrors. Remember to upgrade your cairo package as well.

Regards

Did slackpkg upgrade firefox and it's done.

seems like Pat didn't upgrade pycairo too, but pycairo depends on cairo (and python of course) :)

Updated both cairo 1.8.8 and firefox 3.5.6 here on 12.2. No problems yet encountered. :)

Still no announcement for this on slackware.com/security, though it gets a mention in the stable changelogs.
Did a message go out to the security mailing list?

Well I didn't get one.
http://www.slackware.com/security/li...ecurity&y=2009