Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle!

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Jo Brown wrote: Security updates are point updates and are done EXACTLY the same time for ESR as security updates for regular Fx. There is no lag and that supposed lag is NOT a reason to want to update faster. Security FIXES in ESR are the same as in regular FF, but new

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle!

Security updates are point updates and are done EXACTLY the same time for ESR as security updates for regular Fx. There is no lag and that supposed lag is NOT a reason to want to update faster. As for how fast I want new features, I have finally left Fx ESR and regular Fx after having started

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle!

Paul, On the whole I agree with you. However, when my OS was on ESR I found that I often wanted the new features "under the hood", particularly the security features, much more quickly than ESR releases made them available. I do agree that quantum and the switch of plugin api was an unfortuna

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle!

I don't understand why a more rapid release cycle is good for *users*. Bugs, especially security bugs, obviously should be fixed quickly. But new features often tend to confuse users (many of whom can barely deal with existing features). I am pretty expert in using -- and developing -- software (h

[Mozilla Enterprise] Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle!

We’re excited to announce that we’re adjusting Firefox release cadence to increase our agility, and to bring you new features more quickly. Starting Q1 2020, we plan to ship a major Firefox release every 4 weeks.