[Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR <= we should totally go for this wrt stable releases

Thu Feb 9 13:04:00 CET 2012

09.02.2012 13:35, AL13N kirjutas:
+> ihmo, the users who want the latest versions will not even wait one week,
+> and will grab them from upstream. If we really wanted the latest release,
+> someone could backport them.
+And backports work since what time?
+> the end users will benefit too, because the modules/plugins will still
+> work and not being unstable at every update. as a long time stable user, i
+> prefer the ESR... we've been complaining about too short releasecycles...
+> this is the answer, we should use it.
+Most users don't know what to do with tarball. They only know that their 
+browser doesn't have latest promoted changes. And that means 
+distribution is doing something wrong for them.
+
+We were complaining because extensions didn't work. I don't know how 
+many plugins there were with problems. Can't remember any myself. 
+Nonbinary extensions are now compatible by default, so one problem less.
+
+ESR means QA testing anyway. It's only bugfixes but that doesn't mean 
+you can update w/o testing.
+
+--
+Sander
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