Re: Firefox 38.8.0 Beta 7 released

On 2016-05-29 04:28:43 +0000, Dave Yeo said:

> In case anyone missed it, Bitwise has released Firefox 38.8.0 Beta 7 and
> is available from the bitwise mozilla github page.

Please note that if you use AOO, then you will also need to install the 
`libicu-legacy` package to make AOO happy because Firefox requires a 
newer ICU version which is incompatible with AOO. Note that the 
`libicu-legacy` package is not in the Firefox README.OS2 because, 
strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with Firefox: the problem will 
pop up right after running `yum update` even w/o any intention to 
install Firefox or Firefox dependencies.

Sorry for this inconvenience, this is a one time thing. We know how to 
handle such sort of updates (and we already solve it nicely for nss and 
nspr packages that expose a similar issue - nss-legacy and nspr-legacy 
will be installed automatically to save you from troubles if you have 
older, incompatible versions of nss and nspr installed, but with libicu 
we had to go a different route).

> The biggest change is that many more DLLs are now installed with YUM/RPM
> and Bitwise has given up keeping track of the zip files that can be used
> and only supports their versions installed with YUM/RPM

Well, getting back suport for Open in New Tab (and proper Session 
Restore) and support for MP4 video playback are also quite nice changes 
I suppose :)

-- 
Kind regards,
Dmitriy Kuminov
CPO of bww bitwise works GmbH