Firefox updated

[Jason W]

Another update?

Oh well, off to compiling.

[jpeters]

Interesting that 3.5.5 now requires gtk2.  Previous version was working fine without it.

[Jason W]

Without gtk2?  What toolkit were you using?

[jpeters]

Without gtk2?  What toolkit were you using?

the gnumeric toolkit 


Looks like gnumeric got deleted from my group, so no gtk2 dep was loaded.     

[dentonlt]

Just needed a place to mention this - didn't see it on the forum.

Right now I'm a fan of the stock firefox extension (thanks Jason W and all others involved in the continued upkeep!).

My backups were getting a bit huge, though, and I don't see a forum mention of how to manually disable the urlclassifier files. In short, manually disabling those keeps the file from getting big (mine was 30mb and growing, which makes for annoying backups).

In short, uncheck "forgeries" and "attack sites" at Edit->Preferences->Security, and then delete urlclassifer files (2) in the firefox profile directory (~/.mozilla/firefox/[someprofilestring]/).

A blurb from 2008: http://ychittaranjan.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/urlclassifier3sqlite-woes-on-firefox-3/

[Jason W]

Thanks for the info, I simply disabled the urlclassifier for Shiretoko. 
I didn't look for a setting where it could be disabled by the user during runtime. 
I noticed Icecat does not seem to grow the file like Firefox does, but I could be mistaken.

[Jason W]

Firefox 3.5.6 is out, will aim to update tonight or tomorrow.  Firefox/Shiretoko is already released, Icecat will be updated when it becomes available.

[Jason W]

Firefox 3.6 is available, I will update the official package.  As always, there are increased dependencies with this version milestone, and build errors to troubleshoot.  Time is tight right now, so I will update the official firefox.tcz and icecat to 3.6 and update Shiretoko when I can.

[Jason W]

I am uploading the custom build of Firefox 3.6.  The name given to that build by Mozilla is Namoroka.  Shiretoko will continue to be updated to those who prefer the 3.5.x series.

[Jason W]

I see firefox 3.6.9 is out, will update tonight. 

I am also uploading the latest builds of Shiretoko (3.5.11) and Gran Paradiso (3.0.19) for those who like to stick with the older releases but want the most updated and secure version of them.

[LinuxUser01]

I have noticed a newer version of Firefox that has been updated since February 19th and the latest on the servers is the 18.0.2 version. I was wondering if we should just keep one thread for Firefox on a sticky instead of posting new threads over for newer versions to be uploaded. Also, if anyone has any knowledge of the way Firefox changes there performance, i would like to know how they are beefing up there start up performance as stated in the latest release info. Thanks.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0/releasenotes/

[Jason W]

I was honestly waiting for 19.0.1, which would surely come out a few days or so after I packaged 19.0.  But it is simple to update, and since there are some tangible reasons to update to 19.0 I will go ahead and  do it.

[Rich]

Hi Jason W

I was wondering if we should just keep one thread for Firefox on a sticky instead of posting new threads over for newer versions to be uploaded.

If people pay attention and read/use the sticky, sure. The subject certainly comes up often enough.

[Jason W]

Topic stickied.  Please request Firefox updates here.

[Rich]

Hi Jason W
Since Firefox update requests tend to show up under  Extension requests  it might make more sense to put the sticky
there. Possibly titled something like  Post Firefox update requests in this thread