All: Thanks for the information about Firefox ESR vs regular releases. I'll ask the seat provider at work to consider using a more recent version of Firefox
Steve Wharton On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 2:30:29 PM UTC-4, Arc Acorn wrote: > > XD my bad I only really only hang in the nightly branches and ESR17 was > wrapped up there already and it's been ESR24 for quite a while now. > > On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 4:47:14 AM UTC-7, kenrob wrote: >> >> Notwithstanding your comments about version number checking, which I >> can't comment about, ESR24 should be released for user testing on 10 >> September, and the overlap with ESR17.0.8 should extend until 03 December. >> (Info off the Mozilla website at the link in PMario's email). >> >> -- >> Regards >> Ken >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Arc Acorn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just my 2cents of given my understanding: ESR are locked bug >>> and critical fix only versions of the main Firefox so an ESR 10 is roughly >>> that of FF 10 but with all the critical fixes of the current FF's or well >>> kind of ESR 10 is actually pretty old and was only supported to FF 16. >>> The current day ESR is actually 24 as support for ESR 17 has just very >>> recently ended. >>> >>> Overall however you can put version control for both the upper and lower >>> limits of a plug in in firefox and than users can always use the >>> "old/other/all versions" tab on firefox's addon website to get a version >>> that works for their versions of firefox, or in many cases the addon manger >>> will automatically give them the correct version if the plugin historically >>> used a good practice min/max firefox version support info. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 10:12:19 AM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote: >>>> >>>> Your proposed change could cause problems for those folks subject to >>>> workplace restrictions to use a different version of Firefox. Where I >>>> work, we are limited to using Firefox ESR 10.0.11 (which I assume is older >>>> than Firefox 20). >>>> >>>> Prior to FireFox 15, 'privilegeManager' functions were still available, >>>> so direct local file I/O was possible. If you are using FireFox 14 or >>>> below, you shouldn't need TiddlyFox at all. (Note: I'm not sure if the >>>> ESR >>>> version numbers correspond to the main release channel versions, but >>>> assuming they do, ESR 10.0.11 should work fine without TiddlyFox) >>>> >>>> enjoy, >>>> -e >>>> Eric Shulman >>>> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios >>>> >>>> HELP ME TO HELP YOU - MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO MY "TIP JAR"... >>>> >>>> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#**Donations<http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Donations> >>>> >>>> Professional TiddlyWiki Consulting Services... >>>> Analysis, Design, and Custom Solutions: >>>> >>>> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#**Contact<http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
