CentOS - May 2016 - Firefox 45.1.0 stability

Nux! wrote:
> Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not
> like the old ffmpeg I ship.
Nope.

Yes, I'm on CentOS 6, but as this is a US federal organization (civil
sector), I did ask, and was told no repos Over There. Security issues....

Thanks, though.
>
> There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to
> upgrade and see if that solves the problem.
> Feedback welcome so I can move the testing packages in the main repo
> sooner, rather than later.
>
> yum --enablerepo=nux-dextop-testing update ffmpeg
>
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>
> Nux!
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Friday, 6 May, 2016 21:20:15
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox 45.1.0 stability
>
>> Alice Wonder wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2016 11:54 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>> Good afternoon,
>>>>
>>>> Apologies if this topic has come up before but I've found
>>>> that the Firefox 45.1.0 stability to be somewhat lacking.
>>>>
>>>> For example, I can't use it for Twitter because it crashes.
>>>> It also crashes when I log into gmail. This happens every
>>>> time I try these URL's.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on improving the stability?
>>>
>>> It has not crashed on twitter at all for me.
>>>
>>> I do run privacy badger on Twitter which blocks a lot of resources
that
>>> want to track me, maybe some of those resources are what firefox is
>>> having trouble with?
>>>
>>> I also don't have flash installed, nore Java plugin (not even
iced-tea)
>>
>> Right, well I can't do that at work. And I just had to downgrade
firefox
>> from 45, because I was *trying* to do my annual required privacy and
>> security refresher, and it opened, it has, I think, flash audio, and
>> firefox crashed, fired it up again, restored, and started and it
crashed
>> *again*, and a third time, and that was it: I downgraded, didn't
have to
>> (also couldn't) downgrade flash-plugin, but had no trouble at all
>> completing the training. Note that I *could* play streaming media and
>> youtube with 45, but... and, no, you've *got* to be joking to think
I'm
>> going to convince upper management to ban flash....
>>
>>       mark
>>
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On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 16:44 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Nux! wrote:
> > Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might
not
> > like the old ffmpeg I ship.
> Nope.
> 
> Yes, I'm on CentOS 6, but as this is a US federal organization (civil
> sector), I did ask, and was told no repos Over There. Security issues....
Romania has been a EU member State since 1 January 2007. 



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Regards,

Paul.
England, EU.      England's place is in the European Union.

On Sat, May 7, 2016 6:38 pm, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 16:44 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> Nux! wrote:
>> > Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox
might
>> not
>> > like the old ffmpeg I ship.
>
>> Nope.
>>
>> Yes, I'm on CentOS 6, but as this is a US federal organization
(civil
>> sector), I did ask, and was told no repos Over There. Security
>> issues....
The same (their answer I mean) will probably apply to CentOS itself, will
it? Where CentOS headquarters are situated, where CentOS team members
live? And the same will apply to majority of open source systems, many BSD
flavors will fall under the same category. My answer (to myself) is: I do
trust open source. Be it closed source, then the company ownership would
matter. But with open source, developers situated in Russia (where the KGB
is which I'm awfully scared of) have my full trust as the ones living in
US (where NSA is situated which I'm scared of no less). I though have no
idea if at all I would be able to find right argument when told something
by government bureaucrats.

Valeri
>
> Romania has been a EU member State since 1 January 2007.
>
>
>
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>
> Paul.
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