Sort of need someone that uses ESR52 to confirm or deny my experience (try logging out and back in to google?), I think?
> On Apr 21, 2018, at 11:06 PM, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/21/18 09:34 PM, Perry Wagle wrote: >> The issue for me is the increasing use of what I think is bleeding edge >> javascript to render just about everything. Today, I found that both >> digitalocean and gmail won’t render on ESR52. > > I'm still on 45ESR and Gmail works fine (besides some problems cycling > through the compose options, probably due to using a fork {OS/2}) Can you logout and log back in? >> But sure I can run another browser, but if I do on macOS, and set my default >> browser to ESR52 (which it sees just fine), it works unless I either don’’t >> have it open, or else have a newer Firefox already running, and then that >> something starts up a profile manager window that doesn’t say which version >> of Firefox is going to open that profile. And that means you can destroy >> your ESR62 profile with the migration path to the hot new Firefox that you >> are trying to port your life-saving legacy webextension to. > > Mozilla seems to do zero testing for back-grading a browser instance and > officially don't support it. Yeah, I know, that’s what I was trying to say. >> Three solutions come to mind: >> >> (1) Get the profile manager to at least say which browser is trying to open >> that profile. >> >> (2) Make ESR’s a real fork, and stop failing to pretend its FF52. >> >> (3) Upgrade ESR52’s javascript engine to something more modern. (I assume >> that this last is a non-starter, but I thought I’d ask after it). >> > > (4) Sites not updating so fast as the ESR versions are _supported_ > Generally I've found it takes a couple of years before a version really > starts to have problems. My wild arsed guess is that everyone is targeting the revolutionary Firefox 59+, and ignoring earlier versions, unlike previous upgrades. But as I said, someone else needs to try ESR52. > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
