[[!meta title="Updating Firefox for a Webconverger developer"]]
We now use ESR because of the painful signing process of extensions
Get the 32bit version and for the ver= value, see what
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ or
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/notes/ redirects to.
cd /tmp
ver=52.2; wget "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-$ver.0esr-SSL&os=linux&lang=en-US" -O firefox-$ver.tar.bz2
open https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/$ver/releasenotes/
tar xvf firefox-$ver.tar.bz2
sudo mv firefox $WEBC_CHECKOUT/tmp/
/opt# mv firefox/ firefox-old
/opt# mv /tmp/firefox/ .
Using the firefox-i18n packaging from Archlinux:
curl -O https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/firefox-i18n/trunk/PKGBUILD
Update pkgver=52.0esr
makepkg -o
mkdir /tmp/exts
/tmp/firefox-i18n$ for i in *.xpi; do unzip -d /tmp/exts/$(unzip -p $i install.rdf | grep -m 1 -H em:id | sed 's,.*em:id=",,' | sed 's,"$,,') $i; done
cd /tmp/exts
rsync -a --delete . $WEBC_CHECKOUT/opt/firefox/langpacks/
Check for invalid XML: find -name '*.xml' -o -name '*.rdf' | xargs xmlstarlet val | grep inv
Delete searchplugins since they are not needed, except DDG.
/opt# cp -ra firefox-old/browser/extensions/ firefox/browser/
/opt# cp -ra firefox-old/browser/defaults/ firefox/browser/
/opt# cp -ra firefox-old/distribution/ firefox/
Remove crash reporter
vim firefox/application.ini
Make sure nothing is deleted / missing. Otherwise you might get a strange error message, like please contact your system administrator.
git checkout firefox/mozilla.cfg
find /opt/firefox/langpacks/ -name searchplugins -type d | xargs rm -rf