CentOS 5.11 / Firefox 31 — Totally Borked…

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OK, I just updated my two CentOS 5 boxes (my laptop and by desktop) and discoved that FF 31 is totally borked — it seems not to be possible to install either Firebug (either 2.0.4 or 1.12.8) or Firefox 2, the theme reloaded (1.0.8). These two addons are critical to me. So I have snaged the FF
24.8.0 rpms from the CentOS 5 vault and downgraded to this version and blocked further updates of FF.

Where is the best place to report this problem?

10 thoughts on - CentOS 5.11 / Firefox 31 — Totally Borked…

  • Robert Heller writes:

    I was going to post about this earlier, but got distracted …

    Add-ons are totally broken on C5/ff31. All of them download, some of them continue to install (without the installation progress bar showing any signs of it), and for most add-ons, nothing happens after that. Sometimes, the add-on will install when the manual installation option is selected and the downloaded /tmp/xxx.xpi file chosen, but most of the time this does not work either. This also prevents updating of add-ons.

    What does seem to work is to log into a C6 box to install add-ons, no such problems there.

  • firefox-31.2.0-3.el5.CentOS is still broken, as is upstream’s package. The bug report has already been updated.

    What is also broken, again, is thunderbird calendaring, with the upgrade to thunderbird-31.2.0-2.el5.CentOS. I presume it’s the same issue from tb24,
    http://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS/2013-December/139325.html. No choice now but blocking this upgrade and going back to tb24, until an equivalent SRPM for lightning 3.3.1 becomes available.

  • In a somehow unrelated vein, does anyone know if there’s going to be an OpenJDK update to address newest Java vulnerability? Can’t seem to find one at the moment.

    PEV

  • There were java updates for c5 and c7 on the 15th (2 days ago). Not sure if it addresses the issue you are asking about or not.

    I also have those building for c6, but they are on top of 6.6 so will be released in 6.5/CR repo. I don’t like to estimate dates (as something unexpected could happen), but I expect the 6.5/CR stuff to be out by Tuesday of next week.

    There is also a java-1.8.0-openjdk in 6.6 as well.

    Thanks, Johnny Hughes

  • Johnny,

    Yes. We’ve got some 6.5 boxes, so that’s why we asked. The few 5.10/.11
    boxes did get the updates, so that’s why we were curious. Thanks for the info.

    PEV