Why is the firefox in mozilla:alpha a lower version than the one in the
default repos? And by version I mean the actual version for Aurora not
the one listed on obs.
In other words the version in mozilla:alpha seems to be Firefox 32 (as
Aurora) while the default repos have normal firefox at 32.0.2.
I’m just confused as to what the point of the :alpha repo is…
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Well the normal Firefox should be 33.0 now that it has been released by Mozilla, or at least 32.0.3 with the security fix for the NSS signature forgery attack. But it probably wasn’t needed because NSS is a separate file. My guess anyway, since my Firefox shows I am using NSS 3.17.1.
MFSA 2014-73: RSA Signature Forgery in NSS
I did not know there was a mozilla:alpha repo. I just download the tar.gz files from Mozilla and install the Beta and Nightly versions.
Latest Aurora is 35. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser — Download Firefox Aurora or Beta & Help Determine the Next Firefox — Mozilla
On 10/16/2014 10:46 AM, rafter22 wrote:
>
> alanbortu;2669682 Wrote:
>> Why is the firefox in mozilla:alpha a lower version than the one in the
>> default repos? And by version I mean the actual version for Aurora not
>> the one listed on obs.
>>
>> In other words the version in mozilla:alpha seems to be Firefox 32 (as
>> Aurora) while the default repos have normal firefox at 32.0.2.
>>
>> I’m just confused as to what the point of the :alpha repo is…
>
> Well the normal Firefox should be 33.0 now that it has been released by
> Mozilla, or at least 32.0.3 with the security fix for the NSS signature
> forgery attack. But it probably wasn’t needed because NSS is a separate
> file. My guess anyway, since my Firefox shows I am using NSS 3.17.1.
>
> ‘MFSA 2014-73: RSA Signature Forgery in NSS’
> (https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-73.html)
>
> I did not know there was a mozilla:alpha repo. I just download the
> tar.gz files from Mozilla and install the Beta and Nightly versions.
>
But then you dont get the nice KDE patches…
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What nice KDE patches?
Anyway, I enabled the Mozilla OBS repo on Thursday and updated my insecure Firefox 32.0.2 to 33.0, Thunderbird to 31.2.0 and 
SeaMonkey 2.30 was there.
I left it enabled and yesterday the automatic updater updated them again. Checked YaST and it was the same versions. :?
On 10/18/2014 11:36 AM, rafter22 wrote:
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> alanbortu;2670048 Wrote:
>> On 10/16/2014 10:46 AM, rafter22 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I did not know there was a mozilla:alpha repo. I just download the
>>> tar.gz files from Mozilla and install the Beta and Nightly versions.
>>>
>>
>> But then you dont get the nice KDE patches…
>
> What nice KDE patches?
>
It gives you some KDE integration, the one that I mainly like is the
file picker is similar to dolphin which means I can have actual
thumbnails for images (unlike the terrible default one that I still have
to put up with in GIMP).
see http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/66734108
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On 10/18/2014 05:13 PM, alanbortu wrote:
> On 10/18/2014 11:36 AM, rafter22 wrote:
>>
>> alanbortu;2670048 Wrote:
>>> On 10/16/2014 10:46 AM, rafter22 wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I did not know there was a mozilla:alpha repo. I just download the
>>>> tar.gz files from Mozilla and install the Beta and Nightly versions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But then you dont get the nice KDE patches…
>>
>> What nice KDE patches?
>>
>
> It gives you some KDE integration, the one that I mainly like is the
> file picker is similar to dolphin which means I can have actual
> thumbnails for images (unlike the terrible default one that I still have
> to put up with in GIMP).
>
> see http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/66734108
>
Firefox, about:config:
ui.allow_platform_file_picker;true
On 10/18/2014 07:18 PM, Chris Cox wrote:
> On 10/18/2014 05:13 PM, alanbortu wrote:
>> It gives you some KDE integration, the one that I mainly like is the
>> file picker is similar to dolphin which means I can have actual
>> thumbnails for images (unlike the terrible default one that I still have
>> to put up with in GIMP).
>>
>> see http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/66734108
>>
>
> Firefox, about:config:
>
> ui.allow_platform_file_picker;true
>
The default value is to set it to true, but then you get this file
picker (http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/14632407), which is not very
useful for me as I upload lots of images in my day to day use. Why it
does not have thumbnails for all images, I do not understand but I
really do prefer the dolphin styled file picker over it.
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Am 16.10.2014 um 00:08 schrieb alanbortu:
> Why is the firefox in mozilla:alpha a lower version than the one in the
> default repos? And by version I mean the actual version for Aurora not
> the one listed on obs.
>
> In other words the version in mozilla:alpha seems to be Firefox 32 (as
> Aurora) while the default repos have normal firefox at 32.0.2.
>
> I’m just confused as to what the point of the :alpha repo is…
There is
mozilla - stable version
mozilla:beta - beta versions (usually only Firefox)
mozilla:alpha - aurora version (usually only Firefox)
But there is a big but.
Availability of beta and alpha versions depends on the time I have to
rebase all patches, create new ones if needed etc.
So at this very moment even beta does not have Firefox 34 yet because
there is much to do to make it compile with the current patchset.
Not speaking about Aurora for the moment.
Wolfgang
On 10/28/2014 04:32 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Am 16.10.2014 um 00:08 schrieb alanbortu:
>> Why is the firefox in mozilla:alpha a lower version than the one in the
>> default repos? And by version I mean the actual version for Aurora not
>> the one listed on obs.
>>
>> In other words the version in mozilla:alpha seems to be Firefox 32 (as
>> Aurora) while the default repos have normal firefox at 32.0.2.
>>
>> I’m just confused as to what the point of the :alpha repo is…
>
> There is
> mozilla - stable version
> mozilla:beta - beta versions (usually only Firefox)
> mozilla:alpha - aurora version (usually only Firefox)
>
> But there is a big but.
> Availability of beta and alpha versions depends on the time I have to
> rebase all patches, create new ones if needed etc.
> So at this very moment even beta does not have Firefox 34 yet because
> there is much to do to make it compile with the current patchset.
> Not speaking about Aurora for the moment.
>
>
> Wolfgang
>
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