Firefox 104 - testing update issue

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Firefox 104 is not working. I had to put the official package (tar.gz from firefox website) directly in the /usr/lib/firefox directory :frowning:

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Please provide the exact issue you had because your “fix” makes absolutely no sense. No offense please!

Mozilla provides firefox-104.0.tar.bz2 file for Linux when it detects that OS, and that file does absolutely nothing when placed in /usr/lib/firefox directory (or you mean you unpacked it there?); while our repositories provide the firefox-104.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst that will be installed via pamac or pacman …

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I just updated stable Xfce in a VM
and got firefox-103.0.2-1
not 104

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See here: Packages | manjaro

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FF 104 Is not yet in stable tho Packages

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… I know - so OP must be on testing or unstable

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Indeed, is where the OP left the comment, so i thought better split the topic so we can have a closer look at the “issue” at hand. :smiley:

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ah - I didn’t catch that

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Exactly what I have done: I unpacked the files contained in firefox-104.0.tar.bz2 in the directory /usr/lib/firefox to replaced all the files of the directory by the ones provided by Mozilla. This way I can use Firefox.
The package proposed by official repositery does not work.
And it works as well for thunderbird (/usr/lib/thunderbird). This way I allready use thunderbird 102.2

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I have just updated Manjaro Xfce on testing branch including Firefox v104.0-1
and Firefox is working with no problems

Firefox package is imported direct from Arch
Arch PKGBUILD shows the source files are downloaded from archive.mozilla.org

pkgname=firefox
pkgver=104.0

source=(https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/$pkgver/source/firefox-$pkgver.source.tar.xz{,.asc}

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Is that a practice you do often? Then you know that during the update you will get “Exists in filesystem” error; is that what happened?

The updated of firefox didn’t work, or after the update Firefox did not start?

I already tested the updates on 3 installs with no issue neither during the update, nor after the update and reboot. Firefox 104 works fine.

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Using binaries from Mozilla is not always good. Sure if the package provided by the distro has issues we can talk about it. But if you install 3rd-party software you’re on your own @olivier512. In regard of thunderbird: not every version is working with regular updates. Mozilla still needs time to make sure if you upgrade from older installs of thunderbird it won’t break your data.

So I recommend to use flatpak or snaps if you want to have the latest and greatest without breaking your distribution installation.

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I often do that whith no issue (this is the second time for firefox) and I never had issue when I uodate in the normal way with a new version. The files are simply replaced by pamac.
In this case, Firefox start normally but it doesn’t open any website. The main window stays empty.

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I just tried to re-install with pamac and now it works with official package.
Weird…
I had the same issue on my both laptop

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Great. Just don’t bother posting when you have one, because I’m gonna have a field day. :smiley:

Sure. Until some new file is added.

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That is normal in Linux, if it doesn’t work, do it again…

However, in psychology teachers tell you:
if someone does the same thing over and over again and expects a different result,
– then it’s called madness. Be careful.

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