read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems. on opening what moz devs considered as 'latest and greatest', found that it was more crapola from moz devs. first run was to login with my isp, only to find page would not fully load and a message bar saying; Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading [Allow] clicking [Allow] button only cycled with same. 10 more clicks, decided that was enough. now, i would like to roll back to earlier 40.x, but no can do because of deleting 40.x to make room for new release. now have /var on it's own partition and have room for updating. 3 questions; 1- anyone else having problems with 45.5.1? 2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x? 3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, will i be able to roll back. hoping for positive replies to #2 & 3#. replies/suggestions greatly appreciated. tia. -- The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 KDE 4.3.4 peace out. tc,hago. g . =+Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! =+in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+=
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 12:32:29AM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:> read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, > decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems. > > on opening what moz devs considered as 'latest and greatest', found that it > was more crapola from moz devs.For what its worth, 45.5.1 is the version of firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) that fixes this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/ Description A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. I haven't noticed any difference in behavior from the previous update. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
Hello, On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 10:25:08 -0500 Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 12:32:29AM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: > > read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, > > decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems. > > > > on opening what moz devs considered as 'latest and greatest', found that it > > was more crapola from moz devs.[snip]> I haven't noticed any difference in behavior from the previous update.Same here, no problem w/ the update. Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20161204/7f4add4c/attachment-0001.sig>
On 12/04/2016 12:32 AM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:> read 'announce' of new release for firefox-45.5.0, then for firefox-45.5.0, > decided, wrongly, to upgrade. my bad. nothing but problems.<>> 3 questions; > > 1- anyone else having problems with 45.5.1? > > 2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x? > > 3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, > will i be able to roll back. > > hoping for positive replies to #2 & 3#. > > replies/suggestions greatly appreciated. > > tia. >}} after a whole lot of web searching and reading, still found nothing anywhere near to problem. swag time. opened about:config, "reload" in search bar, toggled names that appeared close. closed firefox, reopened, all back to normal. no idea which toggle was correct. when i have nothing better to do, will go back and toggle names 1 by 1 to see which was cause. Jonathan and wwp, thank you for replying. any offers for questions 2 & 3? -- The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 KDE 4.3.4 peace out. tc,hago. g . =+Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! =+in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+=
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 12:46:43PM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:> > 2- where might i find earlier releases of 40.x? > > > > 3- if i install 40.x in path /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/, > > will i be able to roll back. > > any offers for questions 2 & 3?Short answer: Don't. Long answer: You're trying to install arbitrary versions of firefox with known vulnerabilities. You're also using something that isn't supported in CentOS and possibly built against a distro that doesn't have the same build environment and base libraries. It sounds like you've already got a bunch of local customizations that could possibly be preventing a working web browser. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>