Web old version? Firefox launch new releases all time. I do no see a web programmers change your code page all time. While follow w3 standards never mind. So, Firefox ESR has got a lot stability and standby updates each some time. So, developers I guess are feel bad with new Firefox way to new release all time because plugins developers need adapt source code of your plugins for Firefox all time. I think is good idea include ESR on repos. Mageia, ScientificLinux... Has got it. FreeBSD has got both on ports and I think has got on binaries too on your servers. On Sep 23, 2012 9:44 PM, "Thorsten Leemhuis" <fed...@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> On 23.09.2012 13:10, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 23.09.2012 13:06, schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis: > >> Has anybody considered to package the ESR releases for Fedora or is the > >> general consensus "that doesn't make much sense, just leads to confusion > >> and is not worth the trouble". I now and then could need a parallel > >> installed Firefox ESR for a Webinterface that officially only supports > >> ESR releases. I can simply install one in my homedir, but it would be > >> nice to have it yum-installable from the stock Fedora repos (but the > >> problem does not bug me enough to submit a package myself). > > you can not have BOTH in the repos in a way that > > the installation doses not conflict and you are > > missing that switch between both will bring > > you problems with your profile > > Something like that, yeah. > > > YOU may be able to work around them with seperated profiles > > 99 out of 100 users are not and would damage their data > > All that software that is involved is open-source, hence solutions or > workarounds for today's problems could be developed if someone thinks it > is worth the trouble. > > > what is this for webinterface only supporting ESR? > > why in the world should a WEBPAGE not work with a NEWER firefox? > > It's not so much about "work", more about "support", because for a > software vendor it's risky if you are telling your customers that your > software is supporting browsers that are not made yet ;-) Even > supporting state of the art browsers is sometimes something software > companies fail to achieve. Look here for example: > > > https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1-Beta/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#Jasper_reports_system_requirements > > Quoting: > """ > The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports tool supports the > following browsers: > > In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 - Firefox 3.6 > > In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Firefox 3.6 > """ > > IOW: If you want it or not, you sometimes need older browsers if you > want to run a supported configuration (the example is bad because here > one even needs a old, EOLed browser and not a Firefox ESR that's still > supported; but you get the idea). > > CU > knurd > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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