| 24 May 2026 |
 Emma [it/its] | oh god, ew | 12:41:49 |
| Emma [it/its] | also, the settings unironically look like chromium now?? | 12:42:20 |
| Emma [it/its] | time to lock firefox indefinitely until this is resolved, CVEs be damed | 12:43:20 |
| Emma [it/its] | * time to lock firefox indefinitely until this is resolved, CVEs be damned | 12:43:25 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | its fine | 15:44:40 |
| 25 May 2026 |
|  Ahmed Amr joined the room. | 17:23:24 |
| 27 May 2026 |
 vcunat | Oh, I forgot to keep updating thunderbird-esr 😞 I was kind-of relying on the bot creating PRs and pinging me, but a couple months ago it stopped. last update | 06:29:06 |
| vcunat | Ah, of course it wouldn't build without fixups. That's why.
error: failed to calculate checksum of: /build/thunderbird-140.11.1/comm/third_party/rust/minimal-lexical/.gitmodules
So this issue propagated into ESR updates as well.
| 07:00:29 |
| vcunat | * Ah, of course it wouldn't build without fixups. That's why.
error: failed to calculate checksum of: /build/thunderbird-140.11.1/comm/third_party/rust/minimal-lexical/.gitmodules
So this issue propagated into ESR updates as well.
| 07:00:40 |
| vcunat | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/524715 | 07:36:35 |
| vcunat | Actually, what do we generally do about 140 ESR versions on NixOS 26.05? | 07:37:25 |
| vcunat | They will just die during its support time? Mozilla plans the EOL at September/October: https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/ | 07:38:16 |
| vcunat | * Actually, what do we generally do about 140 ESR versions on stable NixOS 26.05? | 07:38:49 |
 nbp | Apparently we should not use the policy file to disable updates, but create a file named is-packaged-app:
https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/search?q=is-packaged-app&path=&case=false®exp=false
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2042197 | 09:35:49 |
| nbp | The presence of the policy file implies that you are a company, and then we apparently have different set of defaults, such as the disabled WebSerial API. | 09:51:45 |
| vcunat | Company? Is that really suitable for a community distro default? | 09:55:02 |
 K900 | It's the only way to disable update checks | 09:55:24 |
| K900 | Well, was, apparently | 09:55:26 |
| K900 | But yeah the actual intended use case is corp policy | 09:55:36 |
| vcunat | 🤔 setting Firefox config other than by clicking... right, I guess. | 09:57:40 |
| vcunat | * 🤔 setting Firefox config other than by clicking... right, I guess, makes sense. | 09:58:25 |
| K900 | OK so I just tried doing it the most basic way possible | 10:15:46 |
| K900 | And it works | 10:15:55 |
| K900 | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/524793/changes?w=1 | 10:16:25 |
 hexa | cool! | 13:13:32 |
 whispers [& it/fae] | oh huh, i wonder if this'll fix the "this browser is managed by your organization" some folks i know have been confused about (at least if they're not using anything else that sets policies). that'll be nice. | 13:30:22 |
| K900 | It does | 13:30:49 |
| whispers [& it/fae] | yay | 13:31:32 |
| hexa | same as firefox … at some point introduce the new esr version and and some later point throw on the old | 13:59:35 |
| hexa | in the meantime migrate thunderbird-esr from old to new esr | 13:59:44 |
