[SOLVED] Firefox 52 ESR end-of-life

As an inside there are a few things that any user should know, whatever web browser is used: for instance avoid pastejacking. But there will always exist people clicking on URLs in emails, so...

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier As an inside there are a few things that any user should know, whatever web browser is used: for instance avoid pastejacking. But there will always exist people clicking on URLs in emails, so...

It is nothing wrong with clicking on URLs in emails, they can be one-time authentication links and so on. The real bad thing is system side auto-run of an eventual downloaded file.

Originally Posted by ponce I'm testing 63.0bX here: if anyone wants to try it too to build it seems to require the additional cbindgen (this last compiles with "cargo build --release" and produces a single binary).

One thing you may have forgotten to mention is the nodejs package also needs to be installed. (Unless there is a configure option to leave it out?)
I'm trying to build 63.0b4 right now...

UPDATE: nodejs is apparently only a build dependency, not a runtime dependency. Running 63.0b4 right now, and it does seem to load and run faster than previous versions.

Originally Posted by Lenard Spencer One thing you may have forgotten to mention is the nodejs package also needs to be installed. (Unless there is a configure option to leave it out?) I'm trying to build 63.0b4 right now... UPDATE: nodejs is apparently only a build dependency, not a runtime dependency. Running 63.0b4 right now, and it does seem to load and run faster than previous versions.

yes, I forgot! thanks for reporting!
it will actually become a mandatory build dependency with firefox-64.x, in the meantime you can disable it passing the configure option "--disable-nodejs"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ev/qtLaVeKDRKw