Firefox ESR package is really needed

[Nrbrtx]

Dear community!

According to this AskUbuntu question (https://askubuntu.com/q/977138/66509)
- the problem is critically actual.
We have 550 views of this question for 2 hours.

Please make official ESR package and put it alongside bleeding-edge version.
New shiny Firefox disables many LEGACY extensions (see
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#
).
Users and developers need time for the switch.
They can't repair car while driving it.

With best regards,
Norbert.


On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz at t-online.de>
wrote:

> I will give it a try to provide some ubuntu-flavoured firefox-esr builds
> in https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa which are
> meant to be co-installable with firefox and firefox-trunk.
>
> Rico
>
> Am 01.10.17 um 23:27 schrieb Nrbrtx:
> > Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested
> > users may download it from PPA
> > https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr
> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr> .
> >
> > But this is not user-friendly solution.
> >
> > Debian already packaged Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (see
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&
> searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr
> > ).
> >
> > Current status of addons porting is indicated here (
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ
> 7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#
> > ).
> > There are lot LEGACY (see
> > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing
> > ) addons.
> > November with Firefox 57 (see
> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar ) will come very soon.
> >
> > I hope that Canonical will find resources for packaging Firefox ESR.
> > Enterprise users will be very pleasant.
> >
> > With best regards,
> > Norbert.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Marcos Alano <marcoshalano at gmail.com
> > <mailto:marcoshalano at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, James Henstridge
> >     <james.henstridge at canonical.com
> >     <mailto:james.henstridge at canonical.com>> wrote:
> >     > On 29 September 2017 at 11:43, Marcos Alano <
> marcoshalano at gmail.com <mailto:marcoshalano at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     >> What is the difference between keep the latest release and a ESR
> >     >> release? ESR someday was a latest release.
> >     >
> >     > It's not really a question of whether Firefox-ESR is more
> difficult to
> >     > maintain than Firefox.  Rather, the comparison is between the
> >     > maintaining Firefox and maintaining both Firefox and Firefox-ESR
> >     > simultaneously.
> >     >
> >     Understood. I think we need to do is ask some tough questions to find
> >     a way to finally make available the firefox-esr.
> >     Someone already asks a question I think it's very tough: how firefox
> >     and firefox-esr can live together? Maybe just a different namespace
> >     with /etc/alternatives symlinks. Actually could be a good idea
> because
> >     allows more integration with Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly
> provided
> >     by Mozilla Team. Mozilla Nightly is in a different namespace, but
> Beta
> >     updates the stable version which isn't a good way since I can't test
> >     beta without lose stable.
> >
> >
> >     > James.
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Marcos Alano
> >     ----------------------------------------------
> >     P: Por que este email é tão curto?
> >     R: http://five.sentenc.es
> >     ----------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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