For transactions when the vendor checks the browser or with a number of cloud consoles, the MozillaFirefox default version (OSS) in Tumbleweed is incompatible. Will adding firefox-esr to the main repository be an option as opposed to adding the Mozilla experimental repository and installing it from there? More repositories can be enabled, but that isn’t always a good thing.
Having an ESR version in a rolling release seems rather contradictory, at least IMHO.
The “Mozilla” repository https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ I would hardly call “experimental”, no matter how it may be labelled. I’ve been using that for several years now, both on stable Leap and on TW with no problems.
I get it, but it is essential.
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Does changing the user agent help? Like user tannington indicated, Tumbleweed is for testing the latest and greatest…
I tried switching the UA, but to no avail. Because of the btrfs features in Linux 6-* and some hardware compatibility, I now prefer TW to LEAP, and I’m sort of aiming to make it my primary OS.
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What I would do then is install the Firefox-ESR as your user.
Download the tarball and extract in $HOME and run from there… https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr
You might need to do some soft links to config directories to run in parallel, or just remove the openSUSE version…
Thanks, I will try that.
You mean that using (about:config) and setting “general.useragent.override” to, for example:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0
didn’t work, or it worked but the web site you visited still correctly identified the actual version of Firefox?
I find this amusing.
I’m using Leap, with the ESR version of “firefox”. And I often run into websites that tell me my browser is out-of-date. (I ignore that).
Apparently, you are having the reverse problem.
To paraphrase a famous saying: You can please some of the websites all of the time, and you can please all of the websites some of the time. But you cannot please all of the websites all of the time.
I agree. I don’t have any issues logging into Oracle cloud console from firefox-esr but I can’t login with MozillaFirefox (104.x), and the same goes for my credit card vendor site.
Because you are really using an outdated Firefox version (over one month old). The actual (non ESR) version is 105.0.3
I’ve the latest default version -
# firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 104.0.2
[FONT=monospace]# zypper info MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package MozillaFirefox:
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Repository : Main Repository (OSS)
Name : MozillaFirefox
Version : 104.0.2-2.1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 213.4 MiB
Installed : Yes (automatically)
Status : up-to-date
Source package : MozillaFirefox-104.0.2-2.1.src
Upstream URL : http://www.mozilla.org/
Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a
plethora of extensions.
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I’m able to access Oracle and other services with firefox-esr 102.3.X; which is much older than 104.X default firefox.
Wrong. There is a misunderstanding on your side. ESR has always lower version numbers than the rapid release (RR) firefox.
The actual ESR version is 102.3.x
The actual RR version is 105.0.x
There is plenty information available whats the diffences between ESR and RR firefox versions… Choosing a Firefox update channel | Firefox for Enterprise Help
Again. You are using an outdated RR version. See comment #2](https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/576517-Request-for-adding-firefox-esr-to-Main-repo-(OSS)?p=3165466#post3165466) from tannington for a repository with up to date ESR/RR versions.
That’s what I was trying to communicate. Cutting edge doesn’t work; the older version does. Although you’re attempting to be helpful, I think you’ve missed the mark.
Nope i don’t think that i missed the mark. Your bank tries to protect you from using an outdated browser. You didn’t show proof that you tried to access the named pages with an actual RR firefox 105.0.3. You showed only that you have an outdated RR 104 version installed.
And you are still wrong: Firefox ESR 102.3.x IS NOT older than Firefox RR 105.0.x
This versions are different release channels, but both are actual and up to date.
LMAO! With firefox-esr (an older version), all logins function, but not with the default version. THE POINT IS THIS.
ESR does not include the most recent features, it does include the most recent security and stability patches.
You try to troll? Please reread all the provided informations about the different release channels and version numbers again, think about it and do what you are asked for if you want further help…
Instead of arguing and trying to be clever, it would have taken you only two minutes to setup the repo from comment #2, install the actual firefox RR 105.0.3 and try again…but noooooo
Firefox ESR does not come with the latest features but it has the latest security and stability fixes.
Speaking directly from the source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switch-to-firefox-extended-support-release-esr
I know the differences between firefox ESR and RR. But you seem not to understand the meaning of version numbers.
You have firefox RR 104.x installed. Actual firefox RR is 105.0.3 -> 104<105 -> result: no access to your banking website because 104 is outdated
You have firefox ESR 102.3.0 installed. Actual firefox ESR is 102.3.0 -> 102.3=102.3 -> result: access granted
No, everything works on Leap with Firefox version 91.9.1. The version of Firefox you specified, 105.0.3, is not currently available on Tumbleweed. Anyhow, I’ll stop answering your comments after this.