Firefox ESR package is really needed

[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/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/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>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, James Henstridge
> <james.henstridge at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On 29 September 2017 at 11:43, Marcos Alano <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.
>
>
>
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> Marcos Alano
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