how to update firefox and seamonkey through command line ?
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Of late, I've been downloading the localised en_GB binary-release tarball from mozilla.org and extracting that to /opt/firefox and running it from there. Started doing this when Pat decided to stick with firefox-esr in the 14.1 release. Works ok at present, though it could break in the future if/when some of the shared library versions mozilla build it against change (at which point I'll either return to using the esr, or swap to slackware-current)
Would be trivial to script the update process for easy command-line updating. Just a combination of wget and tar ought to do it.
The decision to stick to ESR suits me (for now) as it holds off the Firefox 29 GUI redesign disaster... However I will probably end up back with Seamonkey eventually.
The decision to stick to ESR suits me (for now) as it holds off the Firefox 29 GUI redesign disaster... However I will probably end up back with Seamonkey eventually.
I also run ESR on 14.1. I do run 29 on -current. When I get tired of Firefox I run Chrome and use Pat's slackbuild script provided in /extra.
Am I the only one that does not care for the new firefox UI? Anyways, you can always use ruario script or the SlackBuild script for building it yourself a new version
I like the new version Firefox 29 crispness & looks now that I have my addon bar back. Rounded tabs look OK. Took some time to get used to the menu position changes. I have 30 pinned tabs that take about half of the bar.
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