| Summary: | [RFE][RHEL6] Rebase Firefox to a stable Firefox | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <rdassen> | |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Martin Stransky <stransky> | |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | urgent | |||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | andriusb, atodorov, azelinka, degts, emaldona, fge, fnadge, iheim, james.hogarth, jhorak, jpallich, jwest, mishu, pvine, rbinkhor, rrelyea, spurrier, stransky, syeghiay, tpelka | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Rebase, Triaged, ZStream | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
| Whiteboard: | ||||
| Fixed In Version: | RHEA-2012:0327 | Doc Type: | Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 695757 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-05-04 10:20:21 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
| Bug Depends On: | 712958, 712963, 728289, 744069, 744070, 744072, 773056, 783854, 783855, 785412 | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 607248, 652630, 695757, 716850, 756082, 756736, 786872 | |||
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Description
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
2011-04-12 15:26:07 UTC
There are test packages here: http://people.redhat.com/stransky/rhel-6/
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Firefox has been upgraded to version 5.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
xulrunner seems to build fine but firefox needs a BuildRequires of yasm and yous hould add that to your test rpms collection there... ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora-epel/beta/6/SRPMS/yasm-0.7.2-3.el6.src.rpm seems to work for yasm. ff5 then builds and seems to run, however the webm test here: http://www.wellesley.edu/~kenny/html5/vp8.html fails and works in chrome on my same machine. If webm doesn't work, consider just configuring with webm off. http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/1891/sunflower-webm.html got it to spin once, usually shows x http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/1891/custom-controls-webm-720p.html http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/1891/custom-controls-webm-360p.html controls appear, but no video http://people.opera.com/patrickl/experiments/webm/fancy-swap/ works though Youtube in HTML5 appears to fail. "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available." Package: firefox-5.0-1.el6 Latest Crash: Sun 31 Jul 2011 01:20:18 PM Command: /usr/lib64/firefox-5/firefox -new-tab '' Reason: Process /usr/lib64/firefox-5/firefox was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) Comment: None Bug Reports: During normal browsing. Also some videos (not sure what player, but something akin to flowplayer) show up with big square sections going transparent and showing background white and flashing. yasm is not a part of RHEL6 and we can't depend on a package from EPEL. So webm is disabled on RHEL6 for now. Then the bug is needing --disable-webm in configure. Compiling the specfile as is complained.
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-Firefox has been upgraded to version 5.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.+Firefox has been upgraded to version 7.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
*** Bug 652630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Firefox 8 requires nss 3.13 and nspr 4.9. Deleted Technical Notes Contents. Old Contents: Firefox has been upgraded to version 7.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version. Why is there still no Firefox 8 in RHEL 6.2? Your marketing blah-foo e.g. at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/ says, that you are going to update Firefox during the RHEL lifetime. Even RHEL 4 ships Firefox 3.6, but RHEL 6.2 does not ship a current Firefox somehow?! Or is this only marketing-crap nowadays? :-( Robert, for your information: https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-62747 Note the section that states: "Red Hat will continue with its policy of releasing and supporting new versions of Firefox when new versions become available and *reach suitable stability* for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux." Feel free to open a Red Hat Support case against your paid production RHEL subscriptions with your comments/requests. Thank you! Andrius. *** Bug 746788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Just to note that looks like Firefox 10 has been agreed by mozilla to be a long term support (of 1 year) so might be worthwhile rebasing to that for RHEL5/6... In addition looks like Firefox 3.6 will be end of lifed and lose upstream security fixes as of around April 24th... Info is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal Already fixed in RHEA-2012:0327. |