Dear all! Do you have any news about packaging Firefox ESR in supported Ubuntu?
With best regards, Norbert. On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Logan Rosen <lo...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Matthias, it looks like you added firefox-esr to the sync blacklist from > Debian in this commit > <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/+junk/sync-blacklist/revision/588>. > Can you please shine some light on why this change was made? Thanks! > > On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Nrbrtx <nrb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Ubuntu developers! >> >> For enterprise Ubuntu users Firefox ESR >> <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/> is needed. >> It does not change too fast and support old "LEGACY" extensions >> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing> >> . >> >> This problem was discussed at least twice on AskUbuntu (see >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/305199/is-there-a-deb-packag >> e-to-install-firefox-esr and https://askubuntu.com/question >> s/505895/how-can-i-install-an-older-version-of-firefox-in-ubuntu-14-04 ). >> There is a bug about this problem on Launchpad (see >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676164). >> >> For example in Windows my organization uses Firefox ESR. >> We do not need bells and whistles, we need to do our work with stable >> user experience and without security vulnerabilities. >> >> Debian already has Firefox ESR (see https://packages.debian.org/se >> arch?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=firefox-esr) for all >> supported versions. >> >> Please add these packages to all supported Ubuntu versions. >> You may want to use bleeding edge version as default, but please add >> firefox-esr package too. >> >> >> With best regards, >> Norbert. >> >> -- >> ubuntu-desktop mailing list >> ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> >> >
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