Mozilla Firefox Browser Stable Version Releases

I guess "ftp.mozilla.org" is just a symbolic link to the directory "archive.mozilla.org" on their server?
So, as long as they don't delete that link, it will keep working.

I have changed my bookmark though.

 

sorry, it's a redirect, webservers dont know symbolic links like eg windows (mklink). redirect is possible with htaccess file, that's complete different. change appreciated

 

No idea but it is interesting that on their file server under the candidates directory there is a build 2 folder that is incomplete and the build 1 folder was dated 2 days ago. Something is weird. I would think if something was wrong it would be 94.0.3 next but I know nothing.

 

Hmm...
I thought, since these servers are mostly Linux based, symbolic links could be used (ln -s archive.mozilla.org ftp.mozilla.org).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/posa580h875ni2c/screenshot_link.png

https://www.howtogeek.com/287014/how-to-create-and-use-symbolic-links-aka-symlinks-on-linux/

 

ofc they use a operating system, but the software is something like apache server and this need other features to get along.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html


94.0.3 is not existing, last is 94.0.2 and currently nothing in the pipe
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/

 

Ok, I give up...
Have to admit I know nothing about servers and htaccess.
So the server software can't just follow symlinks in the file system? Huh.

 

I installed it from here yesterday. So you're telling me that I should not have?

 

I think it's OK.
But for some unknown reason it was not available on https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/94.0.2/ for some time (404 Not Found), but as of now it's there again...
(modified 19-Nov-2021 20:03).
Don't know what happened in the mean time.

I also got it offered via my Linux app repository.

 

It's been reposted in the releases folder with today's date and different checksums. Can't be the same installer.

 

maybe, maybe not - for security i hope not because in case of a successful hack attach this could lead to worse. web servers, http or ftp have own rules to follow path. in special for ftp i can set for each user another home path, virtual path. same for web servers. htaccess can be more than one and redirect to anywhere inside the servers structur.

to get a simple overview you can start "homewebserver 1.9.1.162" (which was abandoned, its older, but simple),
or "Abyss Server" (X1 = free) which more sophisticated
https://aprelium.com/abyssws/

you can run both in sandboxie.

apache is most used for several purposes, some of its binaries is xampp, wamp, mamp aso.

 

Hmm...
So it seems they made some mistake in the previous one?
I'll reinstall just to be sure.

 

I'm pretty sure you can.

 

MD5 from current one: 0E524A1C5A48FDF52BC59E6B35155509

 

I use the Dutch Linux tarball (firefox-94.0.2.tar.bz2).
MD5: 0e0035c17d03a35f14f4ff4bb9d17e1f

 

Now I'm curious about what they silently changed...

 

True story. It's easy to forget not everyone uses the English Windows version.
I wonder what was changed also. We may not find out.

 

So I guess I should uninstall reinstall to be safe right?

 

i don't think it's necessary. had that been the case, they would have released an announcement.

 

Thanks I ended up doing just that anyway.

Question: To enable site isolation in Firefox you just have to change fission.autostart to true in about:config correct?

 

That is correct.

 

Thanks very much, appreciate it.

 

I enabled Site Isolation months ago. Could that be why Fission was enabled already on my machines?

 

Yeah, there are quite a few other languages and operating systems out there.

And if we never find out what changed in between, it was probably a stupid mistake.

 

I not much work. Slackware uses the ESR flavor of Firefox, I prefer the latest version. I simply copy the Slackware source build in to my own build tree, make a one change to the build script and let it run, takes about 4 to 6 hours to create the package to install. I run it over night.

On customize, yes, minor, language changes. So... I actually make two changes to the script, the second is added patches to suite my changes.

 

Hmm... still there as I see it.

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/94.0.2/