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Fedora 34 and 35, have Firefox 97 in stable updates. And Fedora 36 still doesn't have a successful build of Firefox 97. It seems suboptimal, possibly not even supported, for Firefox to get a downgrade from 97 to 96 during an f34/35->f36 upgrade.
Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 36-beta by Fedora user chrismurphy using the blocker tracking app because: I'm pretty sure we need to do a freeze exception here, but I'm not sure what the plan is, so I'm kinda winging it. If firefox (profiles) can't reliably tolerate being downgraded, this could plausibly be a blocker.
Firefox is a critical path app https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/main/f/comps-f36.xml.in#_664 Firefox 97 update states it provides urgent security updates https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-f044a6dede And beta release criterion says: A bug is considered a Beta blocker bug if any of the following criteria are met: A bug in a Critical Path package that: Cannot be fixed with a future stable update Has a severity rating of high or greater and no reasonable workaround (see definition of severity and priority) Bug hinders execution of required Beta test plans or dramatically reduces test coverage So I'm gonna go with, this is a blocker. We need to ship Firefox 97.
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Depends on Bug 2056443 (GCC 12 internal error while Firefox build).
I didn't know at the time I filed this bug, but I've since reproduced significant rendering and/or usability problems with some sites when doing Firefox 96->Firefox 97->Firefox 96, i.e. an upgrade followed by a downgrade. In order to restore functionality in Firefox 96 for those sites, I had to blow away the user profile. It wasn't enough to clean the cache. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1756517
(In reply to Chris Murphy from comment #5) > I didn't know at the time I filed this bug, but I've since reproduced > significant rendering and/or usability problems with some sites when doing > Firefox 96->Firefox 97->Firefox 96, i.e. an upgrade followed by a downgrade. > In order to restore functionality in Firefox 96 for those sites, I had to > blow away the user profile. It wasn't enough to clean the cache. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1756517 Yes, that's expected - don't do the downgrade.
Discussed during the 2022-02-28 blocker review meeting: [0] The decision to classify this bug as an "AcceptedBlocker (Beta)" was made as it violates the following Basic and Beta criteria: "The web browser must be able to download files, load extensions (if applicable), and log into FAS" "All known bugs that can cause corruption of user data must be fixed or documented at Common F36 bugs" We also cite the Beta blocker catch-all wording, that "A bug is considered a Beta blocker bug if ... Bug hinders execution of required Beta test plans or dramatically reduces test coverage" - we believe this bug would have that effect, as it would prevent people who would otherwise upgrade to the Beta and help test from doing so. [0] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2022-02-28/f36-blocker-review.2022-02-28-17.00.txt
Does this update here solve the problem? https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-e056239611 When new build Wil be tried?
It looks like it should, yeah. The Rawhide build of 98 didn't succeed, but it got through the actual compilation stage and failed later. I'll get that update pushed stable soon.
Oh, no, now I look more carefully, compile is still failing on f36/f37 :( It seems like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056443#c6 is still the problem in the latest attempt. Martin, is there any update here? This is blocking F36 Beta. Thanks!
(In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #10) > Oh, no, now I look more carefully, compile is still failing on f36/f37 :( It > seems like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056443#c6 is still > the problem in the latest attempt. Martin, is there any update here? This is > blocking F36 Beta. Thanks! Yes, I'm working on that.
Doesn't need to be both a blocker and an FE.
Fixed gcc is already in rawhide, for f36 feel free to build against f36-build-side-51805 which has the fixed gcc.
I started a build.
FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d
FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d has been pushed to the Fedora 36 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
My current Firefox version on F36 preBeta is 98 and it works ok.
Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-36_Beta-1.1.iso have firefox-98.0-2.fc36 working fine so far
Unfortunately it's broken on aarch64, which is why I didn't include it in the push request yet. Hoping we can get that fixed quickly.
FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.