Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port??

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:31:51PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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 at 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 at 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.
> > bob at immure.com |
> > Austin, TX     |
> 
> 
> Color me confused. I am running Firefox 52.0 and currently have both Flash
> and the Cisco H.264 plugins (according to about:plugins). So the H.264 must
> not be NPAPI or there is another exception. Since the H.264 plugin is a
> part of the Firefox distribution, I suspect it is a special case, a rather
> important one on the same level as Flash. (Really more important.)
> 
> Today (or, maybe yesterday) version 52.0 was declared the new ESR release,
> replacing 45.8. Since I don't run ESR, I have not looked into the state of
> the ESR port for FreeBSD.

Hmm, the plugin/addon I use and would be lost without is for tab groups.  Do
they still work in 52?

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