[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox 43 makes for dangerous browsing

[Leroy Tennison]

I'm not sure I would consider this a rookie mistake, automatic update 
should work (or get fixed pretty quickly).

Definitely do not upgrade openSUSE (period), I upgraded from 12.x to 
13.1 (my current OS).  Everything seemed fine but odd things have 
occurred "below the surface".  Installed a bridge for kvm - having to 
manually manipulate the network regularly, openSUSE keeps wanting to 
assign the default route to eth0 rather than br0.  Numerous times I was 
"up and running from a network perspective" only to lose network 
connectivity  When this happens I have learned to run 'ip route' and 
look for that problem, at this point it's been the issue 100% of the 
time.  Windows Firefox on Wine doesn't work (forget the error message).  
Both of these work fine on a fresh install of 13.1 at work.

As far as Leap is concerned, that was a fresh install.  I don't remember 
exactly but I think when I went to set an icon for a link in KDE it 
returned an error but if I hacked the text file directly it worked.  
This isn't an obscure error and reflects badly on a release which is 
being promoted as the stable alternative.  If it were Tumbleweed I'd 
understand but that's not acceptable for a long term support variant 
(although, from what I'm seeing on the CentOS mailing list, they're 
encountering the same kinds of issues going from CentOS 7 to 7.2).

On 12/19/2015 10:58 PM, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> I think from your comment it was more user error than junk OS. Major
> changes such as 13.1 to 42.1 will always have problems, rookie mistake I
> would say. Try again with a fresh install.
> On Dec 17, 2015 1:42 AM, "Ralph Green" <sirable at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>    I applied all upgrades to one computer tonight.  I got Firefox 43 as
>> part of it, and this is no upgrade.  It quietly disabled all my
>> add-ons, including noscript.  Without noscript, web browsing is much
>> less pleasant and much less safe.    This was on a debian based
>> system.  Until I figure out what to do, I'd recommend running the
>> following:
>>    sudo apt-mark hold firefox
>>
>>   You do all use noscript, I hope.
>> Have a good day,
>> Ralph
>>
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