#12615: Move firefox to the esr releases
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: blfs-book
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 9.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Almost a week ago I suggested moving to the -esr version of firefox.
Details in [http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-
dev/2019-September/036880.html]
This will pick up new security fixes in the 68 series, whilst ignoring
churn (e.g. firefox-69.0.2 which appears at this point to only affect 69,
and the move to a newer rust for firefox-70.
Whether or not we do this, the next expected releases (68.2.0, 70.0) will
require either a new profile, OR invoking firefox for the first time after
the change with 'MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 firefox' (optionally add -P if you
already have multiple profiles and don't want to create another.
So far, nobody has commented on the list so I intend to act on this when
the next security release arrives. Unless in the meantime someone can
point out what is likely to be lost by staying behind the curve in BLFS.
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