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Old 10-31-2014, 05:33 PM   #16
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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.
 
Old 11-01-2014, 03:54 PM   #17
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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
 
Old 11-02-2014, 05:34 PM   #18
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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.
 
Old 11-03-2014, 01:30 AM   #19
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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.
 
Old 11-03-2014, 11:12 AM   #20
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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.
 
Old 11-03-2014, 01:40 PM   #21
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Firefox ESR 24.x support dropped?
Plus 3!
 
Old 11-03-2014, 01:49 PM   #22
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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
Last edited by ruario; 11-03-2014 at 01:54 PM.
 
Old 11-03-2014, 08:24 PM   #23
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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.
 
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Old 11-04-2014, 10:02 AM   #24
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Thanks for the upgrade, Patrick!
 
Old 11-04-2014, 02:45 PM   #25
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Thank You !
Quote:
Originally Posted by onebuck View Post
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>)
 
Old 11-04-2014, 08:39 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by hitest View Post
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.
 
Old 11-04-2014, 09:11 PM   #27
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I usually get my updates at ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/s.../ChangeLog.txt
 
Old 11-04-2014, 10:35 PM   #28
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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.
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.
Last edited by hitest; 11-04-2014 at 10:46 PM. Reason: Addition
 
Old 11-05-2014, 12:26 AM   #29
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Upgrades can take a little while to hit the mirrors, folks.
 
Old 11-05-2014, 09:46 AM   #30
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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.
 
  


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