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as you know, i am using sled11sp4 and using at this point, firefox 38.2.1 esr with a 3-year subscription.
bad news is, that my bank has updated their webpage and now it’s blocking me from performing basic financial transactions unless i upgrade my browser.
i use my linux laptop 99.5% of my time, i only dual boot to windblows 7 just to let it download updates/patches and antivirus definitions. so i dual booted and then updated firefox to version 41, went to the bank page and then everything worked properly.
so i have a question: i read on this forum that firefox esr versions are upgraded every year… are we going to receive this update shortly?
or, do you recommend installing the newest firefox on my own?
if that is so, how do i do it? is there a sled11sp4 rpm for it? can you provide a step-by-step way to do it without breaking the system?
i don’t want to dual boot to win7 just to perform personal financial transactions under that risky OS, while i had the linux security + vpn watching my back with confidence.
thanks for reading & your comments are highly appreciated.
warm regards.
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Hi
The easiest way would be to use the mozilla compiled version as your
user rather than a rpm and then use the tarball version as/when needed.
Just download and extract from the Mozilla website, pop he tarball into
your home directory, extract and run the firefox-bin file. Note it will
use/overwrite your current settings in ~/.mozilla unless you tell it to
use a different config file (–profile option).
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | GNOME 3.10.1 | 3.12.44-52.18-default
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On 06/10/2015 23:14, ofvergara wrote:
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as you know, i am using sled11sp4 and using at this point, firefox
38.2.1 esr with a 3-year subscription.
bad news is, that my bank has updated their webpage and now it’s
blocking me from performing basic financial transactions unless i
upgrade my browser.
i use my linux laptop 99.5% of my time, i only dual boot to windblows 7
just to let it download updates/patches and antivirus definitions. so i
dual booted and then updated firefox to version 41, went to the bank
page and then everything worked properly.
so i have a question: i read on this forum that firefox esr versions are
upgraded every year… are we going to receive this update shortly?
or, do you recommend installing the newest firefox on my own?
if that is so, how do i do it? is there a sled11sp4 rpm for it? can
you provide a step-by-step way to do it without breaking the system?
i don’t want to dual boot to win7 just to perform personal financial
transactions under that risky OS, while i had the linux security + vpn
watching my back with confidence.[/color]
Whilst Malcolm has addressed how to use a later version of Firefox with
SLED I thought I’d cover why it’s using the ESR release - SLED is aimed
at enterprises (the clue is in the product name SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop) who want stability hence including specific releases and
versions of software. Those who want more cutting edge versions tend to
use openSUSE where software is updated more frequently.
HTH.
Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner
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bad news is, that my bank has updated their webpage and now it’s blocking me from performing basic financial transactions unless i upgrade my browser.
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There is no reason to block Firefox ESR 38. Firefox ESR 38 is a very well supported web browser with monthly security fixes. Your bank should unblock Firefox ESR 38. Or you should change to a more serious bank. Your money is not save there.
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as a matter of fact, i am currently using a workaround for this.
i have installed virtualbox for sled/sles11 and then setup winXP as guest and the latest firefox, in my sled11sp4 laptop as host.
cheers.
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