On 2023-06-19 20:29, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2023-06-18 13:57:01 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
But Firefox's internal update logic (or at least its Settings) doesn't necessarily know that it's disabled, and maybe during the previous update that setting reverted to auto-update, so it tried even though it can't. It's happened to me before; the Firefox Settings aren't immutable over updates.
No, it wasn't that. I had updated the system normally, with YaST. It asked to reboot. I powered off, but by mistake, I told the machine to hibernate instead. Some days later, I had forgotten all that and started the machine. So the updates had been applied in the rpms, but not in ram. Running processes, including firefox, were running, on restore from hibernation, the old version, while the files on disk were updated. Firefox update logic detected this, but it was not the only one affected. zypper ps showed the issue, the logs confirmed when the rpms were updated. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)