<div dir="ltr">Dear all!<br><br><div class="gmail-boardCommentBody">Do you have any news about packaging Firefox ESR in supported Ubuntu?<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail-boardCommentBody">With best regards,<br></div><div class="gmail-boardCommentBody">Norbert.<br></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Logan Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:logan@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">logan@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Matthias, it looks like you added firefox-esr to the sync blacklist from Debian in <a href="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/+junk/sync-blacklist/revision/588" target="_blank">this commit</a>. Can you please shine some light on why this change was made? Thanks!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Nrbrtx <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nrbrtx@gmail.com" target="_blank">nrbrtx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Ubuntu developers!<br><br></div><div>For enterprise Ubuntu users <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/" target="_blank">Firefox ESR</a> is needed.<br></div><div>It does not change too fast and support old <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing" target="_blank">"LEGACY" extensions</a>.<br></div><div><br>This problem was discussed at least twice on AskUbuntu (see <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/305199/is-there-a-deb-package-to-install-firefox-esr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/question<wbr>s/305199/is-there-a-deb-packag<wbr>e-to-install-firefox-esr</a> and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/505895/how-can-i-install-an-older-version-of-firefox-in-ubuntu-14-04" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/question<wbr>s/505895/how-can-i-install-an-<wbr>older-version-of-firefox-in-ub<wbr>untu-14-04</a> ).<br>There is a bug about this problem on Launchpad (see <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676164" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug<wbr>s/1676164</a>).<br></div><div><br>For example in Windows my organization uses Firefox ESR.<br>We do not need bells and whistles, we need to do our work with stable user experience and without security vulnerabilities.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Debian already has Firefox ESR (see <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/se<wbr>arch?suite=all&exact=1&searcho<wbr>n=names&keywords=firefox-esr</a>) for all supported versions.<br><br></div><div>Please add these packages to all supported Ubuntu versions.<br></div><div>You may want to use bleeding edge version as default, but please add firefox-esr package too.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>With best regards,<br></div>Norbert.<br></div>
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