[oi-dev] Security awareness: Update to Firefox 38.2.1 ESR or greater

[Nikola M]

On 10/25/15 01:38 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Nikola M wrote:
>>
>> I tested it on OI Hipster 201510, BE date 2015-10-19
>>  and found it doesn't recognize my saved usernames/passwords I have 
>> in 24.8.1
>> (And of course, I can't live without my saved passwords :)  )
>
> I notice that with the Solaris 10 build, I also get an empty list when 
> I visit the Saved Passwords section.  However, I also notice that it 
> still manages to auto-login using the saved user name and password so 
> this may be a UI issue rather than an actual inability to replay login 
> information.

In the similar way it seems that spellcheck that stopped working in both 
Firefox and Thunderbird in OI hipster-2015 (worked before 4-5 months or so),
seems to not underline words untill it get to first mispelled word.
Then it underlines every word after that and stops working.

>
> The CNN web site looks even more crappy than before and the Yahoo web 
> site assumes that Firefox under Solaris must be some primitive cell 
> phone browser (as it temporarily did with Linux some time ago). 
> However, other web sites seem fine.

Yeah I mailed Yahoo about this issue of not recognizing "Solaris" i User 
Agent string as computer browser, like 3 years ago or something, but got 
no response from Yahoo.

>
> Given that the Flash plugin is gone, web sites may look better with 
> the Flash Block add-on removed.

Just as a note, Martin, maintainer of never-releasing-source illumos 
distribution OpenSXCE, says that he is using Flash player fine, except 
some edge cases for Flash versions compatibility or something , because 
he patched something in illumos and else that colided with last Flash 
for Solaris (but never released what).