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CNK:
Here's firefox_update.sh v1.1 (it's cleaner to post an external download link for non-members to access rather than the whole script).

Changes

* Now works on PiCore when Firefox has been installed with the firefox_getLatest.sh script, also with PiCore support now added
* Can now auto-detect download location if the normal link fails, like firefox_getLatest.sh
* You can now manually specify the version to upgrade to on the command-line like: "firefox_update.sh -m 128.11.0esr" (new version must be from the same release channel, eg. esr)
* -h/-help/--help now prints a help message
* Changed Firefox's updater command parameters to work with newer versions as described in the last post
* Now updates the Firefox desktop icon

tcbc:

--- Quote from: CNK on July 25, 2025, 08:18:10 AM ---Here's firefox_update.sh v1.1
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Unfortunately this isn't working for me in TC15 x86.

firefox_getLatest can't get anything newer than version 134.0.2 and when I use firefox_update.sh to update that I get the following error when the Firefox "updater" application is executed:


--- Code: ---The patch directory path is not valid for this application (0)
--- End code ---

The contents of the patch directory when this message appears:

--- Code: ----rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff            0 Sep 20 11:15 firefox-134.0.2-143.0.1-en-US.partial.mar
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff     81495069 Sep 19 11:33 firefox-143.0.1-en-US.complete.mar
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff          723 Sep 20 11:29 update.log
lrwxrwxrwx    1 tc       staff           41 Sep 20 11:15 update.mar -> firefox-134.0.2-143.0.1-en-US.partial.mar
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff           11 Sep 20 11:29 update.status
--- End code ---

Can you please tell me if there is a known solution for this?

CNK:

--- Quote from: tcbc on September 20, 2025, 07:08:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: CNK on July 25, 2025, 08:18:10 AM ---Here's firefox_update.sh v1.1
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately this isn't working for me in TC15 x86.

firefox_getLatest can't get anything newer than version 134.0.2

--- End quote ---

That's when Mozilla changed from using BZ2 to XZ compression. You must be using the older version of the firefox_getLatest.sh script from before I added support for XZ compressed release packages. Download the newer script or manually replace the firefox_getLatest.tcz extension with the one in the TC16 repo.


--- Quote ---
--- Code: ---The patch directory path is not valid for this application (0)
--- End code ---

The contents of the patch directory when this message appears:

--- Code: ----rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff            0 Sep 20 11:15 firefox-134.0.2-143.0.1-en-US.partial.mar
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff     81495069 Sep 19 11:33 firefox-143.0.1-en-US.complete.mar
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff          723 Sep 20 11:29 update.log
lrwxrwxrwx    1 tc       staff           41 Sep 20 11:15 update.mar -> firefox-134.0.2-143.0.1-en-US.partial.mar
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff           11 Sep 20 11:29 update.status
--- End code ---

Can you please tell me if there is a known solution for this?

--- End quote ---

I haven't seen that error before. Maybe they've changed the updater yet again, though it worked for me going from v128 to v140 ESR.

CNK:
New firefox_update.sh version 1.2, just to fix the detection of the latest Firefox version, which broke when Linux 32bit support was ended (except for ESR). On 32bit you need to use firefox_getLatest.sh to download the latest ESR release to continue receiving security updates for that.

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