Hello, > We should definitely follow testing/sid here and continue to use GTK3,
I'm not sure what you mean, because testing/sid has been using GTK2 until two days ago. According to the changelog, GTK3 was last enabled in: firefox (49.0-5) unstable; urgency=medium [...] * debian/rules, debian/control: Re-enable Gtk+3 to see how it goes. Closes: #832301. [...] -- Mike Hommey <gland...@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2016 19:54:35 +0900 And #832301 requested: > Shouldn't the GTK3 support be reenabled in the experimental version? > That would be intresting to debug the remaining issues with GTK3 And indeed the GTK3-enabled 52 ESR was only in experimental, until the upload to unstable two days ago. My system has been installed back when it was still iceweasel and is running unstable, and I believe I've never had to upgrade to a GTK3 version of Firefox. So my understanding of the situation seems a bit different. What I'd like to continue with is GTK2. And in fact I mean on unstable, not just jessie. At least this would easily solve the question of jessie diverging from unstable. I think I understand that 52 ESR is supposed to make it into stretch? But conversely, do you not worry about forcing a GTK version change this late in stretch? And do you not worry about forcing a GTK version change this late in jessie? This jessie maintenance update will trigger in some cases the installation of a big bunch of new packages, and some people won't be happy about that happening on stable. I don't want to use GTK3 on my system because of the reasons you can imagine, and in fact my system works fine without GTK3 even installed. Is there a plan to drop all GTK2 apps and migrate them to GTK3? Is there a plan to drop GTK2 for Firefox? It sure looks like that was not the purpose when GTK3 was enabled. If there is no such plan, can we please continue being provided with GTK2-only Firefox packages? Personally, I'm just not upgrading to this. Some applications offer split GTK2 and GTK3 binary packages, would that be an option? Is 45 ESR end-of-life, can security fixes still not be backported because trademarks, to that well-tested GTK2 build? Is it also true that 52 is dropping ALSA and mandating PulseAudio? There's certainly a demand for classic lightweight, minimalist, no-plumbing-bloat desktop experience; will people have to switch web browsers too to achieve that? I've enjoyed your maintainership, and I dearly hope we can keep enjoying such builds of Firefox. Best regards, -- Pierre Ynard "Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."