Where can I find the exact modifications to Firefox ESR that makes the “pure” browser? (and were they really necessary?) My users are having all sort of problems. Addons from official mozilla site refuse to install. Common applications refuse to recognize it as a modern browser (e.g. whatsapp web …

[image] gcb: Where can I find the exact modifications to Firefox ESR that makes the “pure” browser? You can see a changelog here . [image] gcb: Addons from official mozilla site refuse to install. There are two ways you can install extra addons in PureBrowser: 1 - via command line but…

I don’t think there is a document which describes the changes from Firefox. You can get the source code (maybe most easily via apt source purebrowser) I do think add-ons have some quirks, but I’m not familiar enough. For a while, I saw that one should install add-ons through the command line, and o…

For one thing, it seems to be based on Firefox-ESR v46, so it is older than Firefox 57… Readinghttps://tracker.pureos.net/w/pureos/policy/purebrowser/ it really seems to be limited to some default setting changes.

I think PureOS’s restructuring may have caused some confusion. As I was digging around repo.puri.sm, I first found the old green suite, which seemed to have Firefox 46. However, the new amber suite I think is based on Firefox 68. apt search purebrowser Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done pure…

Ahh, thanks for the correction. Much appreciated.

[image] gcb: that makes the browser “pure”? Addons from official mozilla site refuse to install. with the understanding that a random add-on may make the browser impure.

[image] spaetz: For one thing, it seems to be based on Firefox-ESR v46, so it is older than Firefox 57… I don’t have a Librem laptop, so I can’t verify this, but I’d wager that if you can get a user agent switcher installed, and tell PureBrowser to identify as Firefox 70, most sites will work…

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Mand November 21, 2019, 9:18pm 9

The version string you quoted reads “really60.9.0esr” after the first version number. This is because the Firefox version used in PureOS has been rolled back from 68 to 60, for an explanation see