The time of waiting is over because the first public Firefox 45 ESR for OS/2 is now available as a zip package. About the issues with the rpm package check the previous post.
Firefox 45.5.0 ESR Beta 8 for OS/2
Changes in this release
- link against external LIBJPEG, LIBPNG, ZLIB, BZIP2 and HUNSPELL DLLs
- use kLIBC 0.6.6 DLL directly in JS code
- Link against LIBCx DLL for automatic EXCEPTQ trap report creation
everywhere
Issues
- web page scrolling, entering text in input fields and tab change are delayed/slow
Other stuff
This release not only needs more external libs/dlls (for image format and such)
but also core dlls that were part of the Firefox package – security lib (NSS). You will easily see this change because the Firefox root dir is now nearly empty. If this is a wise move especially when there are now regressions like Firefox isn’t working correctly because of these external libs.
In 2016 there was a change to support again native printers (GPI)(#155, #75, #134) and not only CUPS based printer.
downloads
Firefox 45 ESR for OS/2 (zip) size 53MB
requirements
Firefox needs tons of external libs now, we try to list as many of them here or you can try to use the yum/rpm way.
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