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Using the latest version of Firefox?
What would be people's suggestion when it comes to firefox?
I was planning on only installing packages since I'm new to the system, but someone mentioned that browser is one of those exceptions where I should run the more updated version in order to prevent vulnerabilities. Quote:
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I have been, & am happy, running the standard packaged Firefox.
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Adding that Landry Breuil is still creating -stable builds of FF for the community.
This OpenBSD Journal article is from the 6.1 era. The links will need to be adapted to 6.3, but the signify(1) key remains the same. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=arti...20170425173917 |
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If your main focus is browser security you might also want to consider chrome/iridium.
See Theo's fairly recent comments on Firefox vs Chrome security: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152872551609819&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152872744210957&w=2 |
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-release packages are never updated. Updates to select ports are made, but -stable packages are left to the community to build, as the project does not have the resources to build them. -stable packages are available from M:Tier as a service. (https://stable.mtier.org)
For firefox, the port maintainer makes -stable packages available, as noted above in my July 17 posting. Quote:
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I have just checked, and Landry has 60.2.1 as a -stable package for amd64. (There is a -stable port of 62.2 in CVS, 4 days old at this time, but Landry does not yet have a package currently available.) If you want to update to his 60.2:
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You seem to be running 6.3 release, so to use those packages from the mirrors you'd have to upgrade your system to a current snapshot first.
For what it's worth, it is September the 26th. OpenBSD 6.4 is probably receiving its finishing touches as we speak. So I'd assume it'll be right around the corner... |
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You can mix and match -stable and -release packages and systems. This is because -stable and -release packages use identical libraries. By definition, a library bump would not be "stable."-stable packages are not on the Project mirrors, because the Project does not build them. As noted previously in this thread, M:Tier produces all -stable packages as a service, and Landry Breuil produces Firefox -stable packages, as an add-on to his port maintenance activities. Separately, -current packages are built from time to time, and stored under "snapshot" package directories and distributed to Project mirrors for the convenience of -current users. They are not built synchronously with OS snapshots, however. |
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