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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 13:57:05 -0600
From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port??
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote:
> 
> > What is the best way to get synth to simply ignore certain ports when
> > running
> > the upgrade-system command with it? I would like for it to not upgrade
> > firefox
> > (don't want to lose my tab groups) so I'd rather that it not even consider
> > updating firefox again, at least not till some form of tab groups are again
> > supported.
> >
> > Note that I haven't tried ver 52 of firefox, but from what I've read it
> > sounds
> > like all plugins/addons other than flash are no longer supported.
> >
> 
> ???Switch to the ESR version, and all NPAPI plugins will be enabled and
> supported until around May of next year.  :)
> 
> Firefox 52    disables everything except Flash.
> Firefox 52ESR leaves everything enabled.???
> 
> ???https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807
> ???
> 
> -- 
> Freddie Cash
> fjwcash@gmail.com

Yeah, but isn't the ESR version relatively down-level WRT to version 51 that
I'm currently using? The Makefile in www/firefox-esr has a verison of 45.8.0.

Not anxious to go backwards on everything.

-- 
Bob Willcox    | If a program is useful, it will be changed.
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