[kwlug-disc] Firefox 57?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

An update for those who want to wait before upgrading to
Firefox 57.

Staying on the ESR will buy you time, until the extensions
crucial to your day to day activities have been ported to
to 57.

Here is a simple script that will install the latest ESR on your
Linux 64 bit system.

Make sure that you purge the existing Firefox 56 or 57 from
your system before running it.

Also, it can be used to upgrade the ESR when security updates
are applied to it. Mozilla have made the URL portable and points
to the latest version of the ESR.

#!/bin/sh

FF_ARC="/tmp/ff.tar.bz2"
TARGET_DIR="/opt"
# This is the permanent location for Firefox ESR. It is for the 64bit version.
# If you use the 32bit version, change "os=linux64" below to "os=linux"
FF_ESR="https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US"

wget -O $FF_ARC $FF_ESR

rm -rf $TARGET_DIR/firefox

sudo tar -xvjf $FF_ARC -C /opt

echo "Create a menu entry for '/opt/firefox/firefox' if this is the
first time you install ESR"