openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for Mozilla Firefox ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2018:1312-1 Rating: moderate References: #1092548 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: This update provides Mozilla Firefox 60.0 ESR, with the following improvements: - New browser engine with speed improvements - Redesigned graphical user interface elements - Unified address and search bar for new installations - New tab page listing top visited, recently visited and recommended pages - Support for configuration policies in enterprise deployments via JSON files - Support for Web Authentication, allowing the use of USB tokens for authentication to web sites The following changes affect compatibility: - now exclusively supports extensions built using the WebExtension API - Unsupported legacy extensions will no longer work in Firefox 60 ESR - TLS certificates issued by Symantec before June 1st, 2016 are no longer trusted The "security.pki.distrust_ca_policy" preference can be set to 0 to reinstate trust in those certificates The following issues affect performance: - new format for storing private keys, certificates and certificate trust If the user home or data directory is on a network file system, it is recommended that users set the following environment variable to avoid slowdowns: NSS_SDB_USE_CACHE=yes This setting is not recommended for local, fast file systems. The following item is specific to the ESR channel of releases: - Service workers and push notifications remain disabled in Firefox ESR - The Mozilla Firefox packages in openSUSE Leap 42.3 will continue to follow the upstream ESR releases. This update does not contain vulnerability fixes relative to 52.8.0, but is recommended for all users. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-468=1 Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64): MozillaFirefox-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-debugsource-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-devel-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-translations-common-60.0-95.1 MozillaFirefox-translations-other-60.0-95.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092548