Browser Update - Firefox

[bour59]

Hi firefox current is now 126.0.1 (bugfix)

[ncmprhnsbl]

Hi firefox current is now 126.0.1 (bugfix)

yah, spotted it just now, should be fixed now. (had the test backwards )

[benjibasson]

Hi, I shunt the policies.json to update and build new modules because I don't save change every time on tiny PC but once every three months ( change is 999-change.xzm) and I have not enought space to work on ramdisk
- extract the firefox.xzm
- run ./usr/lib64/firefox-current/firefox as root

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cd /mnt/sda6/porteus64bit_v501/porteus/modules/firefox-129.0.1-x86_64-fr/usr/lib64/firefox-current/ &&  XAUTHORITY=/root/.Xauthority sudo firefox

- do help => about=> update
- exit
- run as guest to check if it is the right profil ( once)
- set to manual update instead of automatic (once)
- put back policie
- dir2xzm
- disable and delete old module
- enable new modules
so that I don't have to do an about:profil to default profil and delete new profil neither save session from setting center.
More over I don't have to worries about the huge place token on ramdisk during the extraction and txz2xzm (the TMP=/mnt/sda*/tmp doesn't work for updates-browser neither for update-firefox-live

[ncmprhnsbl]

More over I don't have to worries about the huge place token on ramdisk during the extraction and txz2xzm (the TMP=/mnt/sda*/tmp doesn't work for updates-browser neither for update-firefox-live

you are, of course, free to do whatever you want, but i'll correct a couple of misunderstandings:
1. the update-firefox-live (or any of the other browser scripts) doesn't use txz2xzm or makepkg (the "package info" in /var/lib/pkgtools/packages is "faked".)
2. the correct way to avoid using /tmp (ram) is to: in the terminal, cd to the directory you wish to use and eg. for firefox:

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update-browser -d -f

-d meaning "use current directory"

[benjibasson]

More over I don't have to worries about the huge place token on ramdisk during the extraction and txz2xzm (the TMP=/mnt/sda*/tmp doesn't work for updates-browser neither for update-firefox-live

you are, of course, free to do whatever you want, but i'll correct a couple of misunderstandings:
1. the update-firefox-live (or any of the other browser scripts) doesn't use txz2xzm or makepkg (the "package info" in /var/lib/pkgtools/packages is "faked".)
2. the correct way to avoid using /tmp (ram) is to: in the terminal, cd to the directory you wish to use and eg. for firefox:

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update-browser -d -f

-d meaning "use current directory"

Hi, I didn't seen on the patched update-firefox-live suoted in this topic: how to fix /var/lib/pkgtools/packages to make it true before build xzm module?

[Mel1974]

First verify and update the package database by running pkgtool or slapt-get --update. If the database seems corrupt, remove it with rm -rf /var/lib/pkgtools/packages and then update again using slapt-get --update. Ensure the directory has correct permissions with chmod 755 /var/lib/pkgtools/packages.

Once the package database is accurate and up-to-date, you should be able to build your xzm module successfully

[Ed_P]

When using the Browser Selection and Update Tool and updating a browser there is this statement:

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 Set your home page.
 Leave blank for: https://forum.porteus.org and press enter to continue.
>

If the statement were changed to this:

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 Set your home page.
 Press enter to continue.
>https://forum.porteus.org

It would allow an easier path for a user to change the home page to:

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https://forum.porteus.org/search.php?search_id=active_topics

[Ed_P]

In upgrading from firefox-122-x86_64-en-US.xzm to version firefox-132.0-x86_64-en-US.xzm the /home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/*-default-release-? folder went from 15MB to 38MB. 40 items to 47 items. Is this normal with the newer releases?

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How does the size shown in the ls of a folder differ so much from the size shown in the properties for the same folder?
7.3MB verses 35.5 MB

[donald]

Hi Ed

Your screenshot says 1009 items and 60 hidden so you may have to add

-a, --all <do not ignore entries starting with .>
[also -R to get a more detailed output]

to your terminal command.

or try du -sh /path/to/folder

[Ed_P]

Hi donald, thanks for the suggestions.

-a doesn't change the numbers that much.

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -lgha --group-directories-first /home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/*-release*/
total 4.7M
drwxr-xr-x 14 users  860 Nov  9 14:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 users  180 Nov  9 14:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 bookmarkbackups/
drwx------  3 users   60 Nov  9 14:07 crashes/
drwxr-xr-x  4 users   80 Nov  9 14:07 datareporting/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 extension-store/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   80 Nov  9 09:02 extensions/
drwx------  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 minidumps/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 security_state/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   60 Nov  9 14:07 sessionstore-backups/
drwxr-xr-x  6 users  140 Nov  9 14:07 storage/
-rw-r--r--  1 users    0 Nov  9 14:07 .parentlock
-rw-r--r--  1 users  34K Nov  9 14:07 AlternateServices.bin
 :
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Nor -R even with its massive display.

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -lghaR --group-directories-first /home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/*-release*/
/home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/cuiho3hm.default-release-2/:
total 6.8M
drwxr-xr-x 16 users  920 Nov  9 14:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 users  180 Nov  9 14:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 bookmarkbackups/
drwx------  3 users   80 Nov  9 14:08 crashes/
drwxr-xr-x  4 users  120 Nov  9 14:18 datareporting/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 extension-store/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   80 Nov  9 09:02 extensions/
drwxr-xr-x  3 users   60 Nov  9 14:07 gmp-gmpopenh264/
drwx------  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 minidumps/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   40 Nov  9 14:07 security_state/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   80 Nov  9 14:19 sessionstore-backups/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users   60 Nov  9 14:07 settings/
drwxr-xr-x  6 users  140 Nov  9 14:07 storage/
-rw-r--r--  1 users    0 Nov  9 14:07 .parentlock
-rw-r--r--  1 users  34K Nov  9 14:12 AlternateServices.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 users  36K Nov  9 14:08 SiteSecurityServiceState.bin
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du -sh is more accurate.

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guest@porteus:~$ du -sh /home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/*-release*/
28M	/home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/cuiho3hm.default-release-2/
guest@porteus:~$ 

I would think the ls command's space number would include the space occupied by the directories even if their files aren't listed.

[Ed_P]

Is there a way to compare, reasonably, the differences between the pref.js from an old release and the one for a new release? diff is meaningless due to the unique 654678875522334567844 numbers at the end of the lines thus all lines are different regardless of what's before them.

And is there a bash command to shutdown a running firefox? Basically the opposite of nohup.

[Kulle]

Hi Ed_P
bash commands to shutdown a running Firefox :

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kill $(pgrep firefox)

or

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kill -9 $(pgrep firefox)

[Ed_P]

Thank you Kulle, pgrep does indeed work.

As for comparing pref.js files, this works for some entries, I just wish I could expand it to more options. ideally all of them.

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#!/bin/sh

if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then
   echo toor | sudo -S  echo "******"
   sudo sh $0 $1 $2
   exit
fi

if [ -d /tmp/good/ ]; then
   rm -rf /tmp/good
   rm -rf /tmp/bad
fi

cat /mnt/nvme0n1p7/Users/Ed/Downloads/prefs.js| egrep -i "true|false" | sed 's^1711811976^x^g' | awk '{print $1,$2}' > /tmp/bad  # prefs-cui.txt
cat /home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/cuiho3hm.default-release-2/prefs.js | egrep -i "true|false" | sed 's^1712750425^x^g' | awk '{print $1,$2}' > /tmp/good # prefs-izo.txt
echo

#diff -Naurq /tmp/good /tmp/bad 
diff        /tmp/good /tmp/bad
echo
echo "=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-="
echo
echo " <  lines from good -izo FILE"
echo " >  lines from  bad -cui FILE"
echo
sleep 2
read
rm -rf /tmp/good && rm -rf /tmp/bad