On 2018-05-17 13:36, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Am 17.05.2018 um 13:16 schrieb Dave Howorth:
I just went to online update in Leap 42.3 and see there is one for Firefox from 52.8.0 to 60.0. That seems like quite a jump and again its surprising to see a major version change pushed as an update partway through a release's lifecycle.
I expect that updating Firefox is going to cause me grief to get it back the way I like it at a minimum, and perhaps break some of my add-ons.
I started it this morning, and till you mentioned I did not notice the large version change. I did notice some small behaviour change: some pages did not load automatically when restoring all my tabs. Now I notice that some of my plugins are disabled: Flashblock Quickjava URL relay User agent overrider The first and the last are important to me. I knew this was going to happen with the update to Leap 15, but I did not expect it on 42.3.
I expect to have to deal with grief like that when I update my distro version, not at random intervals in between. If I wanted system that needed continuous tender loving care, I would choose Tumbleweed.
So what's going on?
First LibreOffice, now Firefox?
When you check very carefully you will see that there is an update to 52.8 since a few days marked as security and that the Firefox 60 upgrade is marked as recommended at the moment.
It was automatically selected when I did the YOU update yesterday. I had a quick look and accepted all updates, I did not notice that this one was "optional", nor that it was not the ESR line. It was not listed separately under the "optional" list.
You may select to not update Firefox to 60 while still being secure.
That being said there is no choice to update to 60 on 42.3 for security reasons soon now as it's impossible to maintain all security fixes w/o upstream support. So you have the choice to block the update and have no migration issues becoming insecure or to do the update in the end. Unfortunately there is basically nothing inbetween.
If it is that way, well... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)