Query about parasitic firefox file

[Bret Busby]

On 23/03/2018, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2018 at 09:38, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:36 AM, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > A significant difference exists, between security updates, and the
>> > sabotage that was done to firefox in the change from v56 to v57.
>>
>> For browsers, all updates are security updates...
>>
>
> Possibly all updates *include* security updates, but they may also include
> feature changes which some users may like, others may hate.
>
> Colin
>

That, as put by Colin, appears to sum it up pretty well, and, succintly.

It is like when GNOME went from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 - some may have
liked the change, and, for quite a few people, it was enough to drive
us away from the GNOME interface.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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