On 2016-04-14 at 09:51, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife wrote: > Does ESR make Firefox any easier to manage in the enterprise? I have > around 3400 PCs spread throughout the state, some of which don't > connect to the network with any regularity.
Historically, the major advantage of ESR has been the reduced need for pre-deployment testing and validation. Since you only get a security-and-stability-fixes release every six weeks, as opposed to a full new-features-and-everything release, you can spend a lot less time making sure everything still works as you need it to with the new version, and your users don't have to adapt to user-visible changes as often. With the advent of mandatory extension signing, there's also now the advantage that the pref to disable this requirement is available in the ESR but not in the mainline releases. The jury is still out on whether I will be setting that pref for my own organization's deployment. > Is it difficult to implement? I use SCCM for most software > deployments, and we would also bake it into the gold image that we > use. No easier or harder than any other Firefox release, in my experience. I build it into many of our images similarly, with no issues. I deploy it with a procedure of 'uninstall existing Firefox via the helper EXE if any is present, install new Firefox silently via firefox.ini, install CCK2 customizations if the FF install succeeded', triggered at launch time, through ZENworks Configuration Management; I'd estimate that the whole process generally takes ~2 minutes start to finish. (I would prefer to skip the "uninstall existing Firefox" step, but the online documentation I've found indicates that silent install doesn't always work right if there's an existing Firefox installation, so I take the extra steps just in case.) Note that I do specifically disable installation of the Mozilla Maintenance Service, because we can't risk having users auto-update from one ESR release line to the next (e.g. from 38 to 45). I might do it differently if there were an option to have the Maintenance Service only upgrade to the next release _within_ the current ESR line, but as far as I know such an option does not exist and is not being considered. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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