Re: Firefox esr repackage

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The price we pay.. :)

BTW, Mozilla publishes tarballs that you can simply extract and run (and will self-update), you can use those (it's what I am doing as a workaround in fact until RH catches up):
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/60.6.3esr/linux-x86_64/

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 May, 2019 17:24:57
> Subject: Re:  Firefox esr repackage

>> I was told lately about this workaround, check it out.
>> https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/
> 
> The signing thing is a security feature. I don't like a workaround to
> disable a security feature instead of fixing it.
> 
> What makes me feel a bit bad is that everybody has fixed versions by now,
> only we enterprise Linux users using the ESR version still don't have
> fixed versions available. I don't complain because we usually get very
> fast updates, but this time we seem stuck. I can live with it but it's a
> bit difficult to explain to our users.
> 
> Did upstream already release new packages?
> 
> Regards,
> Simon
> 
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 8 May, 2019 16:50:20
>>> Subject:  Firefox esr repackage
>>
>>> Hi everyone, I use firefox on centos 7 at work but due to the fairly
>>> well know
>>> extension signing problem, I cannot use ublock origin.
>>>
>>> From what I can tell, the latest version of firefox in the updates
>>> repository is
>>> 60.6.1-1.el7.
>>> It looks like Mozilla have just released firefox esr 60.6.2 which should
>>> fix the
>>> signing issue.
>>> (see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/60.6.2/releasenotes/)
>>>
>>> Would it be possible for someone to pass this message on to someone who
>>> can
>>> package this, so that users like me can update?
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