<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear community!<br><br></div>According to this AskUbuntu question (<a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/977138/66509">https://askubuntu.com/q/977138/66509</a>) - the problem is critically actual.<br></div>We have 550 views of this question for 2 hours.<br><br></div>Please make official ESR package and put it alongside bleeding-edge version.<br></div>New shiny Firefox disables many LEGACY extensions (see <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#</a> ).<br></div>Users and developers need time for the switch.<br></div>They can't repair car while driving it.<br><div><div><div><br></div><div>With best regards,<br></div><div>Norbert.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Rico Tzschichholz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricotz@t-online.de" target="_blank">ricotz@t-online.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I will give it a try to provide some ubuntu-flavoured firefox-esr builds<br> in <a href="https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~<wbr>mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/<wbr>ppa</a> which are<br> meant to be co-installable with firefox and firefox-trunk.<br> <br> Rico<br> <br> Am 01.10.17 um 23:27 schrieb Nrbrtx:<br> <span class="">> Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested<br> > users may download it from PPA<br> > <a href="https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~<wbr>jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/<wbr>firefox-esr</a><br> </span>> <<a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/%<wbr>7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/<wbr>firefox-esr</a>> .<br> <span class="">><br> > But this is not user-friendly solution.<br> ><br> > Debian already packaged Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (see<br> > <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/<wbr>search?suite=all&exact=1&<wbr>searchon=names&keywords=<wbr>firefox-esr</a><br> > ).<br> ><br> > Current status of addons porting is indicated here (<br> > <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>spreadsheets/d/<wbr>1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ<wbr>7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview#</a><br> > ).<br> > There are lot LEGACY (see<br> > <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://support.mozilla.org/<wbr>en-US/kb/firefox-add-<wbr>technology-modernizing</a><br> > ) addons.<br> > November with Firefox 57 (see<br> > <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/<wbr>RapidRelease/Calendar</a> ) will come very soon.<br> ><br> > I hope that Canonical will find resources for packaging Firefox ESR.<br> > Enterprise users will be very pleasant.<br> ><br> > With best regards,<br> > Norbert.<br> ><br> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Marcos Alano <<a href="mailto:marcoshalano@gmail.com">marcoshalano@gmail.com</a><br> </span><span class="">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:marcoshalano@gmail.com">marcoshalano@gmail.com</a><wbr>>> wrote:<br> ><br> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, James Henstridge<br> > <<a href="mailto:james.henstridge@canonical.com">james.henstridge@canonical.<wbr>com</a><br> </span>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:james.henstridge@canonical.com">james.henstridge@<wbr>canonical.com</a>>> wrote:<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> > On 29 September 2017 at 11:43, Marcos Alano <<a href="mailto:marcoshalano@gmail.com">marcoshalano@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:marcoshalano@gmail.com">marcoshalano@gmail.com</a><wbr>>> wrote:<br> > >> What is the difference between keep the latest release and a ESR<br> > >> release? ESR someday was a latest release.<br> > ><br> > > It's not really a question of whether Firefox-ESR is more difficult to<br> > > maintain than Firefox. Rather, the comparison is between the<br> > > maintaining Firefox and maintaining both Firefox and Firefox-ESR<br> > > simultaneously.<br> > ><br> > Understood. I think we need to do is ask some tough questions to find<br> > a way to finally make available the firefox-esr.<br> > Someone already asks a question I think it's very tough: how firefox<br> > and firefox-esr can live together? Maybe just a different namespace<br> > with /etc/alternatives symlinks. Actually could be a good idea because<br> > allows more integration with Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly provided<br> > by Mozilla Team. Mozilla Nightly is in a different namespace, but Beta<br> > updates the stable version which isn't a good way since I can't test<br> > beta without lose stable.<br> ><br> ><br> > > James.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > Marcos Alano<br> > ------------------------------<wbr>----------------<br> > P: Por que este email é tão curto?<br> > R: <a href="http://five.sentenc.es" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://five.sentenc.es</a><br> > ------------------------------<wbr>----------------<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>