Just to clarify, since some people asked:

Firefox 44 = SW enabled
Firefox 45 = SW enabled
Firefox 45 ESR = SW disabled

Only the ESR channel will be disabled.  Normal 45 installs will have the 
feature enabled.

Sorry for any confusion.

Ben

> On Dec 11, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are currently planning to ship service workers in firefox 44 on both 
> desktop and android.  AFAIK, the next ESR is going to be firefox 45.  We plan 
> to disable service workers on all platforms for the ESR release.
> 
>   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232029
> 
> We're doing this for a couple reasons:
> 
> 1) Our implementation is likely to change in significant ways in the next few 
> months that will make it quite hard to perform uplifts.
> 2) The spec is still changing; sometimes in significant ways.
> 
> We feel freezing the current service worker API in an ESR will create too 
> many compat issues over the next 9 months or so.  Therefore we plan to enable 
> the feature only in our evergreen release branches.
> 
> Please let us know if there are any concerns.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Ben
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