I will give it a try to provide some ubuntu-flavoured firefox-esr builds in https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa which are meant to be co-installable with firefox and firefox-trunk.
Rico Am 01.10.17 um 23:27 schrieb Nrbrtx: > Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested > users may download it from PPA > https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr > <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr> . > > But this is not user-friendly solution. > > Debian already packaged Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (see > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr > ). > > Current status of addons porting is indicated here ( > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/htmlview# > ). > There are lot LEGACY (see > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing > ) addons. > November with Firefox 57 (see > https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar ) will come very soon. > > I hope that Canonical will find resources for packaging Firefox ESR. > Enterprise users will be very pleasant. > > With best regards, > Norbert. > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Marcos Alano <marcoshal...@gmail.com > <mailto:marcoshal...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, James Henstridge > <james.henstri...@canonical.com > <mailto:james.henstri...@canonical.com>> wrote: > > On 29 September 2017 at 11:43, Marcos Alano <marcoshal...@gmail.com > <mailto:marcoshal...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> What is the difference between keep the latest release and a ESR > >> release? ESR someday was a latest release. > > > > It's not really a question of whether Firefox-ESR is more difficult to > > maintain than Firefox. Rather, the comparison is between the > > maintaining Firefox and maintaining both Firefox and Firefox-ESR > > simultaneously. > > > Understood. I think we need to do is ask some tough questions to find > a way to finally make available the firefox-esr. > Someone already asks a question I think it's very tough: how firefox > and firefox-esr can live together? Maybe just a different namespace > with /etc/alternatives symlinks. Actually could be a good idea because > allows more integration with Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly provided > by Mozilla Team. Mozilla Nightly is in a different namespace, but Beta > updates the stable version which isn't a good way since I can't test > beta without lose stable. > > > > James. > > > > -- > Marcos Alano > ---------------------------------------------- > P: Por que este email é tão curto? > R: http://five.sentenc.es > ---------------------------------------------- > > >
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