Éric Araujo added the comment:

I would consider the list of browsers updatable in stable branches, like MIME 
types and encoding aliases.  The alternate names for Mozilla browsers are 
really just strings in a list; xdg-open/x-www-browser/gvfs-open are a little 
more (need to use the right class i.e. BackgroundBrowser).  I think the goal of 
the backport rules is to 1) not compromise stability by adding new code 2) not 
break code that was valid in the previous bugfix version.  Adding encoding 
aliases or browsers seems much smaller to me than for example the cStringIO 
unicode fix that added unicode support to shlex as a side effect.

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