Hello Craig and Brian, On 9/17/20, Craig Sanders via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:29:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
I realised that a computer where this just works has the latest Firefox which I downloaded from the Firefox website (now 80.0.1). Instead of the ESR version supplied with Debian (68.11.0esr).
68.11.0esr is what's in testing, right?
Current up to date Debian 10 has Firefox ESR 68.12.0 and no problems here. I have done very little customising, Also I do not invoke FF from an editor, emacs, vi, vim or otherwise. Updates are no longer through synaptic, because of Wayland, I su to root, then run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. There are security issues with sudo, but in the right place, it can be a very valuable tool that I need to sort out enabling.
sid currently has 78.2.0esr
maybe try that?
or switch to firefox rather than firefox-esr. I think testing currently has 79.0. sid has 80.0.1
i used firefox-esr for a while until I had new versions of my plugins (or, at least, reasonable replacements for most of them), but i don't really see any point to firefox-esr now. It's moved past the version where xul plugins still worked, so it's just firefox but a few versions behind.
craig
ps: ewwww - upstream binaries. that's unhygienic.
Agreed, and it messes with the package management, which is one of the things I most appreciate about Debian and derivatives. I have lived through too much Microsoft dependency hell, and that the early RPM required manually sorting dependencies and manually adding to the command line.
-- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
Regards, Mark Trickett