On 06/05/2013 01:57 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
I'd like to hear some pros and cons with using the latest firefox from
mozilla instead of using the ESR version that comes with the stock
distro. I am deploying a web app that fails to render properly. It is a
bug in firefox which has been fixed since version 18.
Naturally, the ESR version is 17. Sigh...
As we were deploying new Nvidia-equipped stereoscopic 3D scientific
visualisation workstations using X86-64 SL6x, we had to make a decision
as to whether to use the SL distribution Firefox (ESR) or the latest
production release. After considering the pros and cons (including that
the machines are behind a network firewall), we selected the current
production version. Thus far, we have had no issues, and have done
several updates using the Mozilla Firefox update technique, not the SL6x
update, keeping Firefox up to the current production release. Part of
the reason for the decision was the observation you also have made;
certain defects that were corrected in the production release did not
have the corrections backported to the earlier release ESR SL version.
Yasha Karant
