When is Firefox 39 coming to Ubuntu 14.04?

[bcschmerker]

Mint 13: Firefox 39.0 crashes right on startup:...

Mine turned out to be a duplicate of this Launchpad bug report:
Firefox 39 crashes on startup or within a few seconds on Precise/x86

Karl

Thanks for the link to the actual Launchpad thread(s) your reply. Mozilla traced the issue for Firefox 39.0-build2-0ubuntu0-0.12.04.1 to a mis-compile of the i386 version, meaning an unforeseen issue with the GNU Compiler Collection on 12.04-LTS. Hopefully they can fix the GCC bug(s) and get 39.0-build6-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 out to us.

Addendum: Don't know whether the GCC issue is a zero-day bug as of 13 July 2015, but no mis-compiles have been reported on other Releases.

[bcschmerker]

Update: The Ubuntu browser team has apparently solved the mis-compile problem for 12.04.6-LTS; Mozilla® Firefox® 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 is now available for download.