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  Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-14 21:50 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 22:20 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 23:40 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 05:10 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-14 22:30 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 23:40 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-15 00:10 +0200
          Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-15 18:50 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:20 +0200
          Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 17:00 +0200
            Re: Keeping firefox up to date Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-08-15 17:30 +0200
              Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 20:50 +0200
                Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
              Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 05:00 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:10 +0200
      Re: jonesasamoah2193_ You_are_PreAppr0ved q1Bj Jones Williams <jonesasamoah2193@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 13:50 +0200

#171077 — Keeping firefox up to date

Greetings all;

It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone 
tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#171078

On 2016-08-14, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone 
> tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Go to http://mozilla.debian.net/ and use the drop-down lists to generate
the appropriate line in your APT sources.

-- 

Liam

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#171080

On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:15:40 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2016-08-14, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone
> > tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> >
> > Thanks all.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Go to http://mozilla.debian.net/ and use the drop-down lists to generate
> the appropriate line in your APT sources.

Have you tried it?  If not, I suggest doing so!!

Lisi

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#171087

On Sunday 14 August 2016 17:37:09 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:15:40 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On 2016-08-14, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > >
> > > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can
> > > anyone tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> > >
> > > Thanks all.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Go to http://mozilla.debian.net/ and use the drop-down lists to
> > generate the appropriate line in your APT sources.
>
> Have you tried it?  If not, I suggest doing so!!
>
> Lisi

I did indeed, got rid of the error because 47.0.1 is no longer available 
for wheezy.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#171079

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On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings all;

Hi, Gene.

> It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone 
> tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> 
> Thanks all.


Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?

There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
version of Firefox available in Jessie.

Kind regards,
Daniel

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#171081

On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
>
> Hi, Gene.
>
> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone
> > tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> >
> > Thanks all.
>
> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
>
> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
> version of Firefox available in Jessie.

Ah!  ESR, but not release.  Sorry, Liam.  I tried release.

Lisi

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#171082

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Hi, Lisi.

On 14/08/16 18:39, Lisi Reisz wrote:

>>> It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone
>>> tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
>>>
>>> Thanks all.

>> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
>>
>> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
>> version of Firefox available in Jessie.

> Ah!  ESR, but not release.  Sorry, Liam.  I tried release.

It seems that "release" is the only version available for Wheezy and it
is available in the standard "security" repository for Wheezy, so it
wouldn't be necessary to add some other repository.

Kind regards,
Daniel

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#171111

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On 14/08/16 19:00, Daniel Bareiro wrote:

> It seems that "release" is the only version available for Wheezy and it
> is available in the standard "security" repository for Wheezy, so it
> wouldn't be necessary to add some other repository.

Sorry, when I said "release" I wanted to say "Firefox 45 ESR".


Kind regards,
Daniel

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#171097

On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > Greetings all;
>>
>> Hi, Gene.
>>
>> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can anyone
>> > tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
>> >
>> > Thanks all.
>>
>> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
>>
>> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
>> version of Firefox available in Jessie.
>
> Ah!  ESR, but not release.  Sorry, Liam.  I tried release.
>
> Lisi
>
>

No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on wheezy.
That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will come when esr
is no longer available either on wheezy. In the meantime, Gene won't
have to add new respositories to get firefox-esr.

-- 

Liam

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#171108

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:02:20 +0100 Liam O'Toole
<liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> >> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> > Greetings all;
> >>
> >> Hi, Gene.
> >>
> >> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can
> >> > anyone tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks all.
> >>
> >> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
> >>
> >> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
> >> version of Firefox available in Jessie.
> >
> > Ah!  ESR, but not release.  Sorry, Liam.  I tried release.
> >
> > Lisi
> >
> >
> 
> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get firefox-esr.

Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either.  Why
should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that support will stop next
year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends.   The consequences of
"progress." 

B

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#171109

On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
>> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
>> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
>> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get firefox-esr.
>
> Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either.  Why
> should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that support will stop next
> year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends.   The consequences of
> "progress." 
>
> B
>

I should expect Firefox-esr to be maintained on Wheezy for the extended
life of Wheezy (coming as it does from the http://security.debian.org/
repository). 

We Wheezy people no longer have any reason to keep mozilla.debian.net in
our sources.list (if I'm understanding this all correctly), as release
is no longer available. In fact, I believe it's making my little
gnome-updater thingamajig freak out.

-- 
Même l’avenir n’est plus ce qu’il était. 
Paul Valéry  

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#171115

On Monday 15 August 2016 11:23:17 Curt wrote:

> On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> >> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get
> >> firefox-esr.
> >
> > Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either. 
> > Why should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that support will
> > stop next year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends.   The
> > consequences of "progress."
> >
> > B
>
> I should expect Firefox-esr to be maintained on Wheezy for the
> extended life of Wheezy (coming as it does from the
> http://security.debian.org/ repository).
>
> We Wheezy people no longer have any reason to keep mozilla.debian.net
> in our sources.list (if I'm understanding this all correctly), as
> release is no longer available. In fact, I believe it's making my
> little gnome-updater thingamajig freak out.

Ditto with synaptic.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#171131

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:44:58 -0400 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
wrote:

> On Monday 15 August 2016 11:23:17 Curt wrote:
> 
> > On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> > >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> > >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> > >> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get
> > >> firefox-esr.
> > >
> > > Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy
> > > either. Why should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that
> > > support will stop next year or so when Long Term Support for
> > > Wheezy ends.   The consequences of "progress."
> > >
> > > B
> >
> > I should expect Firefox-esr to be maintained on Wheezy for the
> > extended life of Wheezy (coming as it does from the
> > http://security.debian.org/ repository).
> >
> > We Wheezy people no longer have any reason to keep
> > mozilla.debian.net in our sources.list (if I'm understanding this
> > all correctly), as release is no longer available. In fact, I
> > believe it's making my little gnome-updater thingamajig freak out.
> 
> Ditto with synaptic.

All I ever got with apt-get is ERR 404 Not Found for mozilla.debian
repo.  But I don't use Gnome or any desktop for that matter.  Just a
window manager Openbox.

B

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#171130

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:

> On 2016-08-15, Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> >> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> >> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> >> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get
> >> firefox-esr.
> >
> > Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either.
> > Why should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that support will
> > stop next year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends.   The
> > consequences of "progress." 
> >
> > B
> >
> 
> I should expect Firefox-esr to be maintained on Wheezy for the
> extended life of Wheezy (coming as it does from the
> http://security.debian.org/ repository). 

Wheezy extended support goes to 31 May 2018 (I checked).  So, at least,
we'll get bug and security fixes 'til then.  Now, as to major number
upgrades ...  Firefox-Release 47.0.1 is the last for Wheezy even though
it's at 48 in Jessie.  Haven't read anything about ESR45.

> We Wheezy people no longer have any reason to keep mozilla.debian.net
> in our sources.list (if I'm understanding this all correctly), as
> release is no longer available. In fact, I believe it's making my
> little gnome-updater thingamajig freak out.

I removed mozilla.debian (was getting ERR 404 Not Found, anyway) after I
discovered Release (up to 47.0.1 anyway) and ESR are both in the
security.debian repo.  However, ultimately there will come a time when
Wheezy is considered too old to continue to support.  That should be
around 31 May 2018, I suspect.

B

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#171086

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On Sunday 14 August 2016 16:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote:

> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
>
> Hi, Gene.
>
> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can
> > anyone tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> >
> > Thanks all.
>
> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
>
> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
> version of Firefox available in Jessie.
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel

Some where about 6 weeks back I wound up with both, and I don't seem to be able to make the -esr version work as default, it runs the 47.0.1 version anyway.  But wheezy is stuck on the older version.  And I don't care which is running, 5 minutes on the nbcnews.com site and I have to go find the screen htop is running on to kill it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#171096

On 2016-08-15, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:

[...]

> Some where about 6 weeks back I wound up with both, and I don't seem
> to be able to make the -esr version work as default, it runs the
> 47.0.1 version anyway.  But wheezy is stuck on the older version.  And
> I don't care which is running, 5 minutes on the nbcnews.com site and I
> have to go find the screen htop is running on to kill it.

Javascript and flash are the most likely culprits. Consider disabling
them or using the noscript extension[1] to disable them
selectively.

1: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/xul-ext-noscript

-- 

Liam

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