 therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | reply to siljaline
Re: Firefox 20.0 Released > reverting
Why? |
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 siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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Montreal, QC
kudos:17 | See previous comments in thread.
As for others, they would have their own specific reasons. |
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Re: Firefox 20.0 Released said by siljaline:I'm reading elsewhere that those that have saved backups of prior builds are reverting 
please provide some links ....
note: previous builds are always available from Mozilla. |
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | Links to what, the backups you have made  ?
Otherwise all versions of FF can be found at ... Mozilla .
Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases |
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD
2 edits | reply to siljaline
I've read through the thread but don't get the point.
Because of the security fixes that are included?
Because of the telemetry data, which is not enabled - by default?
Because users might use their browser to browse Facebook or might use Google Search?
And yet they'll worry about TD (...TigerDirect...?).
Do these reverters even know TD?
Do they even know how long TD in some sort or another has been there?
Send performance data to Mozilla to help improve Firefox
Firefox 7: Telemetry
Adding a new Telemetry probe
about:telemetry
What is Firefox Health Report?
(Did you know that FF has no native way to upload to a FTP server.) |
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It's not new.
It was previously under
Advanced > General > "Submit performance data" along with "Submit crash reports".
Those options now have their own tab - "Data Choices".
... explore your link (Telemetry - "Learn more").
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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Montreal, QC
kudos:17 | reply to therube
Appreciate your information. As noted on the Moz board I'm still a relative noob.
Will read your information to see if I can gather some clarity in the matter. |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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kudos:17 Reviews:
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Ongoing thread at Wilders as requested by you chachazz 
»www.wilderssecurity.com/showthre···t=344641 |
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 EUSKill cancerPremium
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canada
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Upgraded work machine this morning, and now the browser is not working.
Type an address, hit enter nothing happens. Hit the little green "goto" arrow, nothing happens.
Am now using chrome.
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | Firewall?
KB: Error loading websites |
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EUSKill cancerPremium
join:2002-09-10
canada | I'll have to check, it's just very strange, I have never seen this behavior before, and have updated FF going on 5 years.
Thanks for the tip.
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said by siljaline:Firefox appears to be in a new sort of telemetry reporting
I just updated Firefox and Seamonkey on my FreeBSD boxes and am not seeing that tab on either of them.
There is no "datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled" bit in about:config either. |
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD
1 edit | FF come from Mozilla, or are there builds specific from BSD?
If the latter, perhaps they did not include it?
I guess # pkg_add -r firefox is from FreeBSD so quite possible that they customize their builds. |
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | reply to therube
About »Re: Firefox 20.0 Released
Don't take anything I say personally.
When I post, I rarely post anything directed to a specific person, even if it may appear that way from my posts.
(Often I know not even who I may be replying to.)
About all I know about "telemetry" is what I dug up yesterday.
And from that, it appears that "telemetry" (or by whatever name it has gone by in the past) has been there for a long time now. The information that it may send, if it were to send, seems innocuous.
To me, it is better, smarter, to be protected by the security fixes in a current release then to worry about what potentially might be sent by some "telemetry".
Mozilla is not looking to mine your data.
In the future, who is to know.
And if it were to be, you can be sure they'd get plenty of flack on it. |
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I compile the code from source after it's ported over to FreeBSD by the port maintainer. I doubt the maintainer just chose to leave out a tab here or an option there as they saw fit when they ported it over, but I don't know why it's different on my version either. There are options I can choose when building it but it worked from the ones I chose back in Firefox 17.0 and whether or not to include telemetry wasn't among them that I remember. The available versions are as follows, with the version I use being the first: /usr/ports/www/firefox /usr/ports/www/firefox-esr /usr/ports/www/firefox-esr-i18n /usr/ports/www/firefox-i18n /usr/ports/www/linux-firefox From the port description: quote:
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the
Mozilla Application Suite. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers
many advanced features:
o Popup Blocking
o Tabbed Browsing
o Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS)
o Extensions
o Themes
o FastFind
o Improved Security
WWW: »www.mozilla.com/firefox
You can see the different versions on the FreeBSD ports site under the www section. I believe it would have started from firefox-16.0.2,1 and upgraded as need be when vulnerabilities were discovered: » www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?qu···type=allpkg_add -r firefox fetches a binary package. Ports are complied from the same code, it just takes a lot longer to build than installing a package and you don't get to choose your options when you install a package like you do if you compile it from ports. |
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | reply to EUS
Bug 857672 - Address Bar not working
Comment 46.
If that's you, you've run into a bug  . |
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EUSKill cancerPremium
join:2002-09-10
canada Reviews:
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| This is a corp machine on w7, on a windows sever domain.
Address bar does not work at all, no dropdowns, entering urls does nothing, as in no activity whatsoever. Search bar is empty (no search engines), which does nothing when I hit "restore defaults".
I can get to a site only through bookmarks, or tile page.
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therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | Watch that bug for a forthcoming fix (which per the bug they have yet to decide where they'll land it).
Can't hurt to (vote) on it.
Since its known, no sense on commenting unless you can lend something new to the report.
Also check out the bugs marked as "Duplicates:". |
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EUSKill cancerPremium
join:2002-09-10
canada | First of all thanks for the bug pointer.
And after scanning the posts, there's nothing for me to add.
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