On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
Just a heads up for anyone running firefox on
Scientific Linux 6 (and RHEL6 plus other clones,
or other GTK2-based platforms).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses gtk2 in firefox 52.8esr,
but I see from
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282
that Firefox 59 dropped the option to build with gtk2.
In https://access.redhat.com/announcements/3365141
Red Hat talk about plugins and addons with FF60 in RHEL6,
which suggests that they either aren't aware of the gtk2 issue
or have it under control. Two very different possibilities.
I had a reply from Red Hat to this on the mozilla enterprise list:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/enterprise/2018-June/000050.html
Martin Stransky said:
We're going to ship gtk3 (on some form) for Firefox60 on RHEL6.
That does not mean gtk3 will be generally available on RHEL6 (AFAIK).
... which is very good news.
Martin, thank you.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
