Query about parasitic firefox file

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:49:39 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>so that I will have the version of firefox that is on the DVD, so I
>can have a functional version of firefox

It's a pity, if software that fitted perfectly to a user's needs,
breaks the user's work-flow and/or becomes somehow a bit fishy by an
update. However, we several time explained that it is hardcore stupid
to stay with an outdated browser release. Refraining to update some
other kind of software could be a good workaround, especially when
using a release model distro's LTS release, actually there unlikely
will be an update available at all. That software like Firefox even for
a release model distro's LTS release is that often updated, as for a
rolling release, is done for very good reasons.

-- 
$ pacman -Q linux{,-rt-cornflower,-rt{,-securityink,-pussytoes}} \
  | cut -d\  -f2
4.15.11-1
4.14.28_rt23-1
4.14.24_rt19-1
4.14.20_rt17-1
4.14.8_rt9-2