Bug 23633

Summary:	Firefox 60.2.1 new tab not working, all add-ons rejected
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Support at DBCobol <support>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	sebsweb, support, tmb
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Support at DBCobol 2018-10-03 14:34:21 CEST

Using Mageia 6. Firefox 60.2.1 upgrade via mgaapplet two days ago is unusable. 

New tab doesn't work, and all previously functional add-ons are rejected.
New interface is unitelligible and unnecessary.

How reproducible: 
Just try it.

Work-around:
Unistalled 60.2.1 and reverted to 52.9.0 from firefox-52.9.0-1.mga6.i586.rpm, and lost all history and bookmarks. Restored the latter by overlaying from backup.

Firefox 60.2.1 should be removed from automatic update until fixed.

Support at DBCobol 2018-10-03 14:36:04 CEST

CC: (none) => support

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2018-10-03 15:32:29 CEST

Sorry, but there is nothing for us to do here…

Firefox  ESR 52 is not supported anymore, so its getting insecure, and several sites does not work with it anymore…


Firefox ESR 60 and up (technically since FF57) wont support old extensions anymore, they need to be ported to the WebExtensions API:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/10/03/legacy-add-on-support-on-firefox-esr/

So Contact the developers of problematic/needed/wanted extensions about that…

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 2 Sébastien Morin 2018-10-03 15:48:54 CEST

(In reply to Support at DBCobol from comment #0)
> Using Mageia 6. Firefox 60.2.1 upgrade via mgaapplet two days ago is
> unusable. 

You might want to try this:
- Open a new tab and type about:support
- Click on Refresh Firefox...

CC: (none) => sebsweb