Mozilla Firefox Quantum Esr

[Ailene Goldhirsh]

BTWyou may want to explain what you mean with the current version of Firefox.

I would say that the current version of Firefox for Leap 42.3 is the one offered in the official Leap 42.3 non-OSS repository and the belonging Update repository. But it is so obvious to install that (and it is probably already done at installation and updated with your regular YOU or zypper patch), that I guess you mean something different.

as nrickert said you can get Firefox 57 from the mozilla repo

you should do a full vendor change to that repo (if you already have firefox installed)

the only issue I found is with a java package so be careful or java might get uninstalled the solution is to ignore the java dependencies as java support has been removed from Firefox 57

the easiest way to get Quantum on 42.3 LEAP would be

I actually performed the above with Tumbleweed then still using Firefox 52.5.0 and found no problems when reverting from Firefox 57 to 52.5.0. However having a backup is always a good idea. Since I moved the home directories to SSD I am issuing rsync -a /home/karl /home-HDD/karl to mirror existing files on HDD before tinkering.

imo the best way to get Firefox is from the mozilla repo and ignore the java warning during the vendor change using a binary blob from mozilla might damage your profile (using 52 and 57 with the same profile is not recommended)

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