Reply To: Firefox ESR updates (91.4, Oct ESR 102.3)

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December 24, 2021 at 9:05 am #73540
Robin
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    Back on antiX 19 again for writing here. After the apt upgrade on antiX 21 yesterday evening I couldn’t any longer access the forum (and no other web page) with the internet browser (OK, I could have started dillo…).

    From your answers above I’m more confused than before. The installed firefox esr version present in antiX 21 ISO seems to be the original debian version, at least it is located in the debian bullsey main repo, not in the antiX repo:

     *** 78.15.0esr-1~deb11u1 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye/main i386 Packages

    And it was the true recent 78.15 esr , not a series 60 esr, also when looking into help→about menu. Following your quotes this shouldn’t have worked…

    ModdIt wrote:

    Maybe the LTS version for antiX is compiled with SSE 2 Support. If I am not mistaken Stevo from MX does the builds.
    Probably still a build flag available for older machines.

    Well, is the repository for firefox-esr set wrong in antiX 21 then so it upgrades to a wrong firefox version now? Should it point to antiX repos instead of debian? I’m lost in all these diverging pieces of information.

    What are the symptoms?
    Firefox starts up fine after the update to 

         91.4.1esr-1~deb11u1 500
        500 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main i386 Packages

    still, no errors visible at first glance. The complete GUI is fine and shows properly the updated version from help→about menu. But the moment you try to access any webpage literally nothing happens. The tab stays blank. You can repeat it as often you like, with all webpages you have in your history or any other site, all in vain. I tried to restart firefox in secured mode, and also with a blank new profile. Nothing changes things. Even the internal settings page can’t get displayed, and also “about:config” shows a blank page only. So no way to tinker with the settings. But firefox doesn’t crash and stays completely responsive. In contrast to the findings of the OP all windows and borders of GUI are present, no problem at all under this aspect. Maybe his finding was somehow tint-fluxbox related only.

    Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.