RHEL 7.5 : Firefox Quantum has landed

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Hi everybody !

I want to inform that Firefox 60 ESR is available from the Red Hat repository as of now.
sudo yum upgrade your systems.

Cheers :)
Christian

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ir. Jan Gerrit Kootstra's picture Guru 6222 points
29 June 2018 12:47 PM

It also yields for RHEL 6.10

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
29 June 2018 1:25 PM

Great, our users will benefit from many new advanced features and way better performance. :)

ir. Jan Gerrit Kootstra's picture Guru 6222 points
29 June 2018 12:48 PM

thanks for this information :)

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
29 June 2018 1:25 PM

You're welcome ! :)

PK Community Member 95 points
29 June 2018 6:14 PM

Just out of Curiosity, do you prefare Firefox over Chrome. If So, why.

:)

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
30 June 2018 8:54 AM

Hi Promise,

Well, mainly because Firefox is fully open source and because of privacy reasons of course.
Also, since version 60 (Quantum), Firefox caught up on Chrome regarding performance. :)

Regards,
Christian

RD Community Member 35 points
29 June 2018 9:12 PM

I encountered an issue soon after applying the firefox-60.1.0-4.el7_5.x86_64 update to my RHEL Client 7.5 install.

This new version of Firefox is apparently copying all the langpack xpi files from the /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions directory to the extensions/ directory in the user profile. This increases the size of the profile directory in ~/.mozilla/firefox by approximately 51 MB.

As it happens, I was using the new Firefox on a user account with multiple browser profiles and low disk space on the /home partition. The partition was quickly filled to capacity with repeated copies of the langpack xpi files, despite the fact that identical files are already available in /usr/lib64.

I then tested this with a fresh default profile, and observed the same result, so it doesn't appear to be due to my local browser configuration.

I'll continue my attempts to resolve this issue.

RD Community Member 35 points
30 June 2018 10:13 PM

"This feature can be disabled by setting the extensions.installDistroAddons preference to false."

Adding this preference to my browser profile also fixed the Firefox HTTP_ACCEPT headers, which contained en-GB when my OS was set to en-US.

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