Most recent stable WPI for FF and OO?

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

I'm running eCS 2.0, and both FireFox and OpenOffice are pretty
ancient. I've been waiting for eCS 2.2 GA, but in the meantime I'd
like to upgrade FF and OO. I don't want to deal with the bleeding
edge, so I'd like to download WPI bundles that people have been able
to use without much hassle. What do you recommend, and what
prerequisires will I need to download?

[Dave Yeo]

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
I'm running eCS 2.0, and both FireFox and OpenOffice are pretty
ancient. I've been waiting for eCS 2.2 GA, but in the meantime I'd
like to upgrade FF and OO. I don't want to deal with the bleeding
edge, so I'd like to download WPI bundles that people have been able
to use without much hassle. What do you recommend, and what
prerequisires will I need to download?

The new OO is pretty good from what I hear.
For Firefox, Bitwise recently released beta 4 of their build with a few
fixes and more dependencies. WPI of that has not been released yet along
with a WPI of dependencies, probably soon.
I've also released a build of Firefox with minimum dependencies, at
basically the same level as the official Bitwise release + working HTML
5 sound. This needs more testing.
I'd suggest waiting for a week or so for Firefox.
Note that the new builds are linked against libc066 with fixes for
loading the DLLs into high memory which helps with stability.
Dave

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

In <55062a6c$0$58689$c3e8da3$***@news.astraweb.com>, on
03/15/2015

Post by Dave Yeo
The new OO is pretty good from what I hear.

AOO-4111-GA-base-en-US.wpi and AOO-4110-GA-rpm.wpi? Do I need an
Internet connection[1] to install or are theose self contained? Do I
need any other WPI to satisfy the prerequisites?

What's the status of firefox-10.0.en-US.os2.zip?

Post by Dave Yeo
I'd suggest waiting for a week or so for Firefox.

Will do.

Thanks.

[1] Dialup, excrutiatingly slow and unreliable.

[Dave Yeo]

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
03/15/2015

Post by Dave Yeo
The new OO is pretty good from what I hear.

AOO-4111-GA-base-en-US.wpi and AOO-4110-GA-rpm.wpi? Do I need an
Internet connection[1] to install or are theose self contained? Do I
need any other WPI to satisfy the prerequisites?

Someone else will have to answer as I haven't abused my dial-up
connection to download them yet.

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
What's the status of firefox-10.0.en-US.os2.zip?

I rebuilt 10.0.12 against libc066 a while back, better for marking to
load into high memory. Available at
https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-mozilla-esr10/downloads

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Post by Dave Yeo
I'd suggest waiting for a week or so for Firefox.

Will do.

Dave

[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

In <55065e60$0$58705$c3e8da3$***@news.astraweb.com>, on
03/15/2015

Post by Dave Yeo
https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-mozilla-esr10/downloads

What do I need to unpack firefox-10.0.12.r3.en-US.os2.7 and where are
the install instructions. I'll probably wait for the WPI, but I expect
that I'll need the information the next time around. Thanks.

[ivan]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:42 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
03/15/2015

Post by Dave Yeo
https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-mozilla-esr10/downloads

What do I need to unpack firefox-10.0.12.r3.en-US.os2.7 and where are
the install instructions. I'll probably wait for the WPI, but I expect
that I'll need the information the next time around. Thanks.

That is a 7z compressed file (it appears the z went missing)

There is a version of 7z on hobbes.


ivan
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[Dave Yeo]

Post by ivan
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:42 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
03/15/2015

Post by Dave Yeo
https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-mozilla-esr10/downloads

What do I need to unpack firefox-10.0.12.r3.en-US.os2.7 and where are
the install instructions. I'll probably wait for the WPI, but I expect
that I'll need the information the next time around. Thanks.

That is a 7z compressed file (it appears the z went missing)
There is a version of 7z on hobbes.

I had to remove it to get around a filter at my library where I uploaded
it from.
To install, just un7zip it into its own directory, make sure you have
libc066.dll and the mzfntcfgft package installed and run firefox.exe
Dave

[Doug Bissett]

Post by Dave Yeo

Post by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
I'm running eCS 2.0, and both FireFox and OpenOffice are pretty
ancient. I've been waiting for eCS 2.2 GA, but in the meantime I'd
like to upgrade FF and OO. I don't want to deal with the bleeding
edge, so I'd like to download WPI bundles that people have been able
to use without much hassle. What do you recommend, and what
prerequisires will I need to download?

The new OO is pretty good from what I hear.
For Firefox, Bitwise recently released beta 4 of their build with a few
fixes and more dependencies. WPI of that has not been released yet along
with a WPI of dependencies, probably soon.

It may be a few more days. I have been preparing for cataract surgery,
which happens Mar 17, so it will depend on how well I can see.

Still not too sure what to do about the dependencies. I think I will
take what Steve has on his site, and package it all, but that is
probably not a good way to do it.

Post by Dave Yeo
I've also released a build of Firefox with minimum dependencies, at
basically the same level as the official Bitwise release + working HTML
5 sound. This needs more testing.
I'd suggest waiting for a week or so for Firefox.
Note that the new builds are linked against libc066 with fixes for
loading the DLLs into high memory which helps with stability.
Dave