I have gotten the impression, over the last dozen years, that many facilities that are intended to be helpful for naive users are helpful - 95% of the time. The other 5% of the time they make accomplishing a less naive task more difficult (or occasionally impossible).
Since ESR installers are presumably not naive, and since ESR is meant for site-wide deployment, why is this sort of "help" even considered? What I use to download Firefox ESR is a BASH script which takes the version number and then downloads all the current language-specific ESRs (Linux and Windows, 32-bit and 64-bit), plus the SHA512 checksum files from "https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/"; into a standard place, renaming the files a bit to "clean them up". Then I run a related script to verify the checksums. (I also do the equivalent for new Thunderbird versions, although its ESR is no more.) I can provide these scripts if anyone is interested. (I would imagine they could serve as models for Windows PowerShell scripts as well.) On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:43:07 +0300 Timo Pietilä <timo.piet...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > On 21.9.2016 12:13, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > > > > Le 21/09/2016 à 11:09, Jaroslav Uher a écrit : > >> I agree with disabling. > >> > >> @Sylvestre > >> btw it is improperly implemented feature, I am on win XP SP2, > >> which is supported for Firefox 45 line. Users like me are not able > >> to simply found and install latest esr release. > > If I remember correctly, we propose this version because sha-1 is > > deprecated and 45 cannot be installed directly. > > The idea is to give you 38 and you will be updated to 45. > > > > If the 45 binary works out of the box on XP SP2, we can have the > > discussion on disabling that (don't hesitate to report a bug about > > that). > > Point is that it doesn't matter if binary works directly on XP SP2. > You are downloading a ESR which is intended for corporations and for > distribution to large amount of computers. > > I could be downloading windows binary with Linux and that wouldn't > work for sure. Or I could use my android phone with google drive for > windows binary. That check in that page is just pointless. > > (added Enterprise@mozilla.org for discussion). > > Timo Pietilä _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list Enterprise@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to enterprise-requ...@mozilla.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"
