Sumo/Unofficial FF 62 Support Report

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UNOFFICIAL SUMO Firefox for Desktop 62 Support Report

• Release date is Wednesday September 5, 2018 <---- on a Wednesday because Monday is Labour Day holiday in North America

Source Documents

• SUMO contributor forum thread for firefox 62 for desktop
• Firefox 62 for Desktop Release Notes
• Joni's Firefox for 62 Desktop updated SUMO KB articles <-- this page requires log in using Mozilla LDAP , [roland] - yup because often joni is asked to keep articles under wraps, which is why i have added the articles created or modified below
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/risks-downgrading-older-version-firefox-shared-pro
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-synced-device-firefox-accounts
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox <--- addition of thumbnail means a larger bookmark dialogue
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-search-bar-firefox
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-new-tab-page
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/changes-affecting-adobe-flash-firefox-mac
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-and-vista
  • bug 1402890 ---> The description User Interface field for bookmarks has been removed. Users who manually changed the field can export old stored bookmark descriptions via html or json. Stored bookmark descriptions will be removed in a future release which could be Firefox 64 but that's not a firm date yet.

Week 1 (Sept 5-11, 2018)

• 11September2018 Looks like we'll have a Firefox Desktop and Possibly Firefox Fennec 62.0.2 <- 62.0.1 was Fennec only not Desktop
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14GCb_EhKPmmjKf7YhBUdrZDVZaV76ruZEeikShlVwSU/edit#gid=1009056035, selected user facing bugs:
    • bug 1488879 Address bar does not autofill unvisited bookmark URLs
    • bug 1489820 Amazon one-click search engine reappears on new browser session after being deleted aka When using langpacks, search engine changes don't stick

Week 2 (Sept 12-18, 2018)

• bug 1489605 - Disable e10s for OLDJAWS users on Firefox 60ESR using system addon (doesn't affect FF62 but documenting it here for older versions of JAWS users
  • "For the record, the system add-on shipped to esr users on balrog at 15:30 UTC today September 19, 2018"

Week 3 (Sept 19-25, 2018)

• September 24, 2018 - Mac OS X Mojave 10.14 released and there are some issues including:
  • bug 1489785 [MacOS 10.14] Cannot choose where to download files or print because popup window always freeze
• September 21, 2018 - Firefox 62.0.2 released; 62.0.2 release notes <-- Avast/AVG deleting language packs bug 1492459 fixed
  • still have URL autocomplete issues: see bug 1493543 and bug 1493636
• September 19, 2018 (probably found on September 18) bug 1492459 Avast/AVG deleting language packs rendering the browser unusable <--- hopefully will also be fixed in 62.0.2, not a Firefox problem but we have to fix it :-)

Week 4 (Sept 26-Oct 2, 2018)

• October 2, 2018 Firefox 62.0.3 released primarily to fix Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave related bugs and other bugs on other platforms