Walt Mankowski via plug on 27 Sep 2022 06:24:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Firefox 105 is unusable for me

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 9:12 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 10:47:27PM -0400, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> Like the subject says Firefox 105 is unusable for me because it pegs my CPU all the time.  It's supposed to be better, but is MUCH worse and has made my work VM effectively useless.  Note I always have a huge number of tabs open, and that has been working great up until 105.
> 
> I just installed `firefox_105.0.1+linuxmint1+*` and that didn't help.
> 
> So I'm trying to revert back to these, but I can't find them:
> * firefox-104.0.1+linuxmint1+una & firefox-locale-en-104.0.1+linuxmint1+una
> * firefox-104.0.1+linuxmint1+tricia & firefox-locale-en-104.0.1+linuxmint1+tricia
> * I can live without the tricia ones as I will upgrade to 20.3 or 21 soon
> 
> I know Mint is a PITA about old versions, so http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/ has nothing and all the mirrors I spot-checked are current too, as usual.  (Well, LMDE firefox_104.0.1~linuxmint1+elsie_amd64.deb, but that won't help.)
> 
> The old files have aged out of all my local caches (`/var/cache/apt/archives/` and `/var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/`) and I go out of my way to not back up cache and *.deb files...because why would I want to?  (I've fixed that for FF for the future.)  And if I need files, they should be someplace on the internet, right?  Except I can't find them...
> 
> Looks like FF 92 in https://web.archive.org/web/20210924130014/http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/, but nothing newer.
> 
> Does anyone have those files in cache?  Or have a clue where on the internet I can find them again?

This page looks promising:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-firefox

Also, while I've never needed to try it, this might be one area where Ubuntu's use of snap for Firefox might actually be helpful. Presumably it's possible (and not too difficult) to switch to the ESR release if the installed version is giving you problems.

% snap info firefox
name:      firefox
summary:   Mozilla Firefox web browser
publisher: Mozilla✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox
contact:   https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla
license:   unset
description: |
  Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web application
  technologies.
commands:
  - firefox
  - firefox.geckodriver
snap-id:      3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk
tracking:     latest/stable/ubuntu-22.04
refresh-date: 3 days ago, at 16:17 EDT
channels:
  latest/stable:    105.0.1-1    2022-09-24 (1883) 248MB -
  latest/candidate: 105.0.1-1    2022-09-23 (1883) 248MB -
  latest/beta:      106.0b4-1    2022-09-26 (1890) 188MB -
  latest/edge:      107.0a1      2022-09-27 (1893) 193MB -
  esr/stable:       102.3.0esr-1 2022-09-20 (1839) 183MB -
  esr/candidate:    102.3.0esr-1 2022-09-12 (1839) 183MB -
  esr/beta:         ↑
  esr/edge:         102.2.0esr-2 2022-09-02 (1793) 182MB -
installed:          105.0.1-1               (1883) 248MB -

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