[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox - WAS::::Re: Firefox 31

[Jerry Kemp]

I was reviewing some technical news site and saw that there was a new version of 
Firefox out, 39.x something, to address some big security hole.

I have been stuck on Firefox 25 for some time now, having been bitten by the 
"Firefox won't save downloaded files" issue, and had somewhat stopped trying new 
versions to address the issue around Firefox 29.x.

Anyway, we always used to have pretty consistent new builds in the contrib area 
on the mozilla site, I believe that they were typically compiled by someone 
within Oracle, in Asia, but that really isn't important.

Anyway, I went out to mozilla.org to see what was currently available, and the 
newest thing I can find is

Firefox 31.8.0 esr

Is that really the newest version of Firefox available to us?

Or have downloads been moved to somewhere else?

Comments appreciated.

Jerry




On 05/ 5/15 07:55 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> Running Hipster, I was using firefox 31.0.2 (package from the Firefox FTP
> site) happily until today (first day I've booted since I recently upgraded)
>
> previous update 2015-03-27, recent update 2015-04-30
>
> Firefox works fine, except with any "alert" or popup box or sometimes
> select lists, and dialog boxes. If I move the mouse over the object in
> question; the application suddenly core dumps ...
>
> It doesn't core dump with the Firefox 24 that comes with OI, but then I
> can't get flash to work properly in 24, and a lot of services complain that
> I'm using an old version.
>
> It used to work fine, and I have a log of what changed during the upgrade
> (attached).  Anything that could be suggested to mitigate this would be
> much appreciated
>
> Jon
>
> PS. this also affects Thunderbird installed from the Mozilla website.
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