For existing profiles, visit about:preferences#privacy to disable it (cf
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield)
Users just want to browse the web, not be opted-in by default to random UI
experiments. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Shield_Studies
for details.
While i usually don't like diverting from upstream defaults, something
that automagically loads unwanted add-ons isn't right, so i'm making an
exception here.
way simd builds and we shouldnt suffer from runtime performance issues
using encoding_rs. Who would use firefox on a pentium 2 nowadays?
If your build fails, max out ulimit -d. At least 3Gig. Yes...
from semarie@
See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes/
Fixes MFSA2017-24, see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
- Legacy extensions are now unsupported and will stop working - you've
been warned, deal with it
- a separate single content process is now enabled by default
- remove gettext MODULE (reminded by naddy@)
- build stylo css engine (for that, add patches from #1401093 and #1341234)
- remove debugger.js patch, merged upstream (#1400197)
- build webrender, it's not enabled by default at runtime yet, but one
can test it by setting MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 in the env; See
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Quantum_Render for details.
- backport patch from ratchov@ (#1221580) enabling full-duplex audio in
cubeb, for a working audio webrtc experience ! Try it...
Tested by many, thanks!
See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/55.0.1/releasenotes/
* Fix a regression the tab restoration process (bug 1388160)
* Fix a problem causing What's new pages not to be displayed (bug 1386224)
* Fix a rendering issue with some PKCS#11 libraries (bug 1388370)
* Disable the predictor prefetch (bug 1388160)
-stable commit awaiting packages...
Fixes MFSA 2017-08/CVE-2017-5428, see
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-08/
While here, add a patch from semarie@ (tested by and ok danj@) to tweak
a last-minute change in the jit engine memory allocator that happened to
fix a security issue in 52 branch (bug #1334933/CVE-2017-5400) - see
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr52/rev/6b35bbf96b67.
Sadly, this change resulted in a browser crashing at startup
on OpenBSD with the default limits, because the jit engine tried to
allocate 1Gb (previously 640Mb in #1334933, then 1Gb because of
#1337561, see
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr52/rev/65bb26d07408) and hit
the default datasize ulimit of 768Mb. The patch makes it allocate 128Mb
instead (as it's done on 32bit architectures), while a better (?) fix
might be devised in bug #1347139.
Generally speaking, if you see firefox crashing with ENOMEM errors,
raise the datasize limit for your login class, write your own wrapper
script to temporarly raise the limit when starting firefox, or stop
using the modern web. Websites are ginormous, deal with it.
See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/
Remove patch for #1335827, merged upstream.
Note that this release removes support for NPAPI plugins (java, etc..) -
users relying on those should migrate to firefox-esr, where NPAPI
plugins will be supported for the lifetime of 52esr branch.
Tested by several, thanks!
See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/50.0/releasenotes/
and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
Switch back to build against systemwide sqlite3 coming from the
ports-tree. Remove the build goo for macppc|sparc64|alpha, it's unlikely
this will ever come back...
See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/49.0/releasenotes/ (.1 is for
a windows-only fix) - not that 'loop' (ex-firefox hello) was removed
from the browser.
- Fixes MFSA 2016-85
- Remove media/ffvpx/config.h patch, merged upstream/fixed differently in
bug #1239550
- Set media.autoplay.enabled to false by default, i'm usually wary of
changing upstream defaults, but this one is unfuriating with "the
modern web and all this funky video ads".. this one got support from
many.
- Add a blurb to README explaining how to enable/test e10s/multi-process
support.
- See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/48.0/releasenotes/
- Fixes MFSA 2016-62->84
- See
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/08/02/exciting-improvements-in-firefox-for-desktop-and-android/
for user-facing changes
- Switch CONFIGURE_STYLE to simple as it's really not a gnu script
anymore..
- Remove gtk 3.20 jumbo patch, most gtk3 issues are either fixed or
being worked on, and the patch isnt maintainable
- Remove patch-gfx_skia_moz_build, it isn't needed anymore on i386, and
SSE2 will soon be a hard runtime requirement anyway
- Remove patch-media_libcubeb_src_cubeb_sndio_c, merged upstream (#1153151 & #1153179)
- Remove
patch-toolkit_components_protobuf_src_google_protobuf_stubs_atomicops_h,
merged upstream (#1192556)
- Note that WebRT was removed
- See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/46.0/releasenotes/
- Fixes MFSA 2016-39 -> 48
- Switch to use Gtk3 by default (finally!), following the upstream move
- Add a jumbo patch from Fedora to fix several issues with Gtk 3.20
(#1234158)
- Leave WebRTC enabled. The code builds, sort-of works, sound support
is not really there, but this way ppl will dogfood/test it. If you
encounter issues, go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and get involved with
upstream.
- If you want to disable WebRTC, just toggle media.peerconnection.enabled
to false in about:config.
- Stop using systemwide sqlite, build the bundled one instead. Simpler,
as it often forced us to update sqlite in base...
- Add patch from #1239550 to fix the build in ffvpx
- Backport two cubeb patches from ratchov@ already commited upstream
(#1153151 & #1153179)
- Remove the obsolete gstreamer section from README, from Brad (and others)
- See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/45.0/releasenotes/
- Fixes MFSA 2016-16->38
- libmozgnome was removed upstream
- gtk3 is still not enabled by default upstream
- Remove dependency on gstreamer1, ffmpeg/libavcodec is opened on the fly
if available, as tested by naddy@
Sidenote: no, i havent looked at i386/llvm breakage yet. i386 is the new vax.
