Changeset 1b0a207

Timestamp:

05/10/2019 02:09:18 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 9.0, 9.1, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

78fb227

Parents:

1017eed

Message:

Update to Firefox-66.0.5. This is a recommended update for all users of BLFS who have any previous versions installed, due to the Addons fiasco and forced telemetry which has been disabled with this version.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21574 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• packages.ent (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <para>May 9th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to Firefox-66.0.5. This version is required
+          to continue using AddOns past May 13th, 2019, and is a recommended
+          update for other reasons. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11932">#11932</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Archive js52. No longer needed.</para>

packages.ent

@@ -866 +866 @@
 <!ENTITY epiphany-version             "3.30.3">
 <!ENTITY falkon-version               "3.0.1">
-<!ENTITY firefox-version              "66.0.2">
+<!ENTITY firefox-version              "66.0.5">
 <!ENTITY flashplayer-version          "27.0.0.187">
 <!ENTITY qupzilla-version             "2.2.6">

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "fa81e8cbaa653c60c94d0830f0868877">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "268 MB">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "a3d00fb4e950558135f08a5155745d4e">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "269 MB">
   <!-- NB with stylo, much of the build uses rust, and therefore cargo files.
     But the extra cached cargo files, if any, seem to be minimal -->
-  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "9.6 GB (156 MB installed) without tests">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "11.8 GB (156 MB installed) without tests">
   <!-- editors: with ff63 and rust-1.29, ./mach build -j4 is probably the
    most practical way to get a timing on a machine with more cores, if taking
    cores offline is not practical. If in doubt, round up -->
-  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "30 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "25 SBU (with parallelism=4) without tests">
 ]>
 
@@ -306 +306 @@
 ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
 
+# The following option unsets Telemetry Reporting. With the Addons Fiasco,
+# Mozilla was found to be collecting user's data, including saved passwords and
+# web form data, without users consent. Mozilla was also found shipping updates
+# to systems without the user's knowledge or permission.
+# As a result of this, use the following command to permanently disable
+# telemetry reporting in Firefox.
+unset MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING
+
 mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>