> Just a heads up for anyone running firefox on
> Scientific Linux 6 (and RHEL6 plus other clones,
> or other GTK2-based platforms).
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses gtk2 in firefox 52.8esr,
> but I see from
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282
> that Firefox 59 dropped the option to build with gtk2.
>
> In https://access.redhat.com/announcements/3365141
> Red Hat talk about plugins and addons with FF60 in RHEL6,
> which suggests that they either aren't aware of the gtk2 issue
> or have it under control. Two very different possibilities.
I had a reply from Red Hat to this on the mozilla enterprise list: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/enterprise/2018-June/000050.html
Martin Stransky said:
We're going to ship gtk3 (on some form) for Firefox60 on RHEL6.
That does not mean gtk3 will be generally available on RHEL6 (AFAIK).