I’m using fedora 43 KDE,
why no update to firefox 146 received yet?
Here’s the update in Bodhi.
You can install it now if you like, using the command in the “How to install” section of that page, or wait for it to be pushed to stable.
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stransky’s firefox-146.0-3.fc42 bodhi update has met stable testing requirements 2 hours ago
As you can see above it will be released/moved to stable in the next view days.
Right, so the current status is:
This update can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes
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It was released on December 9, and it takes a few days to package and test.
Ask yourself, if it had been released to stable Fedora on December 11 or 12 and had not worked on your system, would you then have started a thread with something like “Why was this released to stable so fast? Is there no QA at all?”
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It doesn’t seem to exfiltrate data but it sounds like it imposes a noticeable extra load on the CPU.
It seems the original update to 146 was broke [1] , and replaced by a fixed one [2]. I didn’t read details, but there still seems to be an issue remaining. But since this is an issue that will not affect most people (seems to be an issue with cockpit), while the update contains security updates, the build seems to be released if no further issues come up. Therefore, the update is likely to come soon (could be hours, or a day or two), and another update is likely to come soon to finally fix the cockpit-related issue. Limiting myself to review the bodhi tickets, it looks at first glance to me that there is an upstream bug in Firefox related to aarch64, and a general cockpit-related issue that is unclear if it is upstream or Fedora-build-specific. But the details of the bugs (upstream or Fedora, aarch ↔ cockpit) are guessed based on the rough comments in the ticket. Feel free to get through the details in the related bug tickets.
I find the way people work on this and aim to make secure and stable compromises well handled.
[1] Making sure you're not a bot!
[2] Making sure you're not a bot!
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No worries, then.
I trust the fedora developers,
so I’ll wait for the official firefox-146.0-3.fc43
update.
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