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

[Reginald Beardsley]

FWIW I'm running 31.6 ESR on 151a8.  It has a terrible memory leak which forces me to restart it frequently.  Sometimes I'm even forced to power cycle the system.

I sometimes randomly see the "can't save files" problem.  However, if you open the file w/ FF you can use a terminal window to copy the file from /tmp.

Reg

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On Tue, 8/11/15, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:

 Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox - WAS::::Re: Firefox 31
 To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
 Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 11:37 PM
 
 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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