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I upgraded FF until 31, I think. The later releases simply caused a password problem with my USB modem: would not accept password until I cleared all history. Switched to Pale Moon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruario (Post 5262436)

You are welcome

I thanked onebuck for sharing the existence of the script but neglected to thank its author. So here goes - many thanks ruario.

This can be of great benefit to Slackware 14.1 users (among others) as they await a Slackware security release.

--mancha

For the curious, the Firefox ESR life cycle can be found in the Mozzilla/Firefox FAQ: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...nizations/faq/

I prefer to stick with the Firefox ESR as officially provided, and hereby petition and beseach our beloved BDFl to switch to Firefox-31.x ESR for Slackware-14.1.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingbeowulf (Post 5263530)

I prefer to stick with the Firefox ESR as officially provided, and hereby petition and beseach our beloved BDFl to switch to Firefox-31.x ESR for Slackware-14.1.

+1 on that. This would spare me the hassle of having to maintain extra Mozilla packages for my MLED project.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingbeowulf (Post 5263530)

I prefer to stick with the Firefox ESR as officially provided, and hereby petition and beseach our beloved BDFl to switch to Firefox-31.x ESR for Slackware-14.1.

Yep. I too prefer that scenario. +2 for me.

Firefox ESR 24.x support dropped?

For those using my script who want a 31.2.0 ESR release rather than 33.0.2, run it like so:

Code:

$ FFESR=Y latest-firefox

Many thanks to our BDFL.

Code:

Tue Nov  4 00:05:23 UTC 2014

patches/packages/mariadb-5.5.40-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This update contains security fixes and improvements.

  For more information, see:

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6507

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6491

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6500

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6469

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6555

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6559

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6494

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6496

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6464

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-31.2.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This release contains security fixes and improvements.

  For more information, see:

    http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/php-5.4.34-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This update fixes bugs and security issues.

  #68044 (Integer overflow in unserialize() (32-bits only)). (CVE-2014-3669)

  #68113 (Heap corruption in exif_thumbnail()). (CVE-2014-3670)

  #68027 (Global buffer overflow in mkgmtime() function). (CVE-2014-3668)

  For more information, see:

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3669

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3670

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3668

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/seamonkey-2.30-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This update contains security fixes and improvements.

  For more information, see:

    http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/seamonkey-solibs-2.30-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

Thanks for the upgrade, Patrick!

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck (Post 5261985)

Hi,

Mozilla just released Official Firefox 33.02 for update. So for the new Official Firefox release I use ruario's 'latest-firefox Version 1.0RC9' script to get the binary & create a Slackware package. On my machines I do not use ESR;

This is Wonderful onebuck !

I Installed the i686 version on my x86_64 + multilib 13.37 System and it's been running well for several hours.

As an added bonus, Memory Usage is lower than the official ESR and it( seems to ) run a tad quicker.

Code:

$ cat /etc/slackware-version



Slackware 13.37.0



$ uname -a



Linux kjhlt5 2.6.37.6 #3 SMP Sat Apr 9 22:49:32 CDT 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU      X 980  @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux



$ ls -la /var/log/packages/mozilla-firefox-*



-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4827 Nov  4 12:05 /var/log/packages/mozilla-firefox-33.0.2-i686-1ro

Many Thanks !

-- kjh(<G> I really need to upgrade one of these days RSN <G>)

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest (Post 5264126)

Many thanks to our BDFL.

Code:

Tue Nov  4 00:05:23 UTC 2014

patches/packages/mariadb-5.5.40-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This update contains security fixes and improvements.

  For more information, see:

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6507

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6491

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6500

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6469

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6555

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6559

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6494

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6496

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6464

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-31.2.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This release contains security fixes and improvements.

  For more information, see:

    http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/php-5.4.34-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This update fixes bugs and security issues.

  #68044 (Integer overflow in unserialize() (32-bits only)). (CVE-2014-3669)

  #68113 (Heap corruption in exif_thumbnail()). (CVE-2014-3670)

  #68027 (Global buffer overflow in mkgmtime() function). (CVE-2014-3668)

  For more information, see:

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3669

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3670

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3668

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/seamonkey-2.30-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

  This update contains security fixes and improvements.

  For more information, see:

    http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html

  (* Security fix *)

patches/packages/seamonkey-solibs-2.30-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

What mirror, I'm only getting 24.8.1. Slackpkg just updated thunderbird to 24.8.1 which apparently is not supposed by lightning so I can't access my calendar anymore. Going back to the main Slackware site has an old version which lightning doesn't work right so I need either one version back or move to the latest.

Quote:

Originally Posted by enine (Post 5264679)

Here is the mirror I'm using for this Slackware64 14.1 box.

ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/.2/slackware/slackware64-14.1/

P.S. This is in the USA slackpkg mirror section.

Upgrades can take a little while to hit the mirrors, folks.

yea, looks like it came.
32 is horrible. They pointed me to an addon that returns some functionality such as the small buttons and being able to move the refresh and stop back to the left with the other buttons instead of hidden all over t6he place but I sure hope someone else takes over as the top browser soon.