

#Firefox esr 38.8 install#
There is also a plan to make the zip release available before the rpm install issue get’s fixed. There’s also a plan to create a new launcher that will call the firefox.exe from a fixed path in the /usr directory tree, fortunately there will be a non rpm release (zip release) that will ship with a standard firefox.exe that can load its dlls from the Firefox root dir and the firefox dir itself can be on any drive and in any dir you like. There is a new issue with the rpm build because of python issues. The have been some updates to external base dll required for Firefox to run.
#Firefox esr 38.8 code#
future WebTRC support, needs better USB support (drivers) and the port of the webtrc code in Firefox.future GL support on OS/2 for Firefox based on the ancient OS/2 port of Mesa (software based rendering only).disable plugin-container.exe to fix the 100% CPU load after it get’s called.fix problems because of symlinks in the profile dir.adapt the new fontlist code, changes over the fontlist pango code in 38ESR.the off-main-thread-composition (OMTC) code path currently does not work and the feature is disabled for now.Some notes about the latest patches and comments: In 2016 there was a change to support again native printers (GPI)(#155, #75, #134) and not only CUPS based printer.įirefox needs tons of external libs now, we try to list as many of them here or you can try to use the yum/rpm way. If this is a wise move especially when there are now regressions like Firefox isn’t working correctly because of these external libs. You will easily see this change because the Firefox root dir is now nearly empty. This release not only needs more external libs/dlls (for image format and such)īut also core dlls that were part of the Firefox package – security lib (NSS).

web page scrolling, entering text in input fields and tab change are delayed/slow.Link against LIBCx DLL for automatic EXCEPTQ trap report creation.use kLIBC 0.6.6 DLL directly in JS code.link against external LIBJPEG, LIBPNG, ZLIB, BZIP2 and HUNSPELL DLLs.
