From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 08/06/2021 07.07, Sidney_Kotic wrote:   
   >> On 6/7/21 11:24 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) is an official version of   
   >>> Firefox developed for large organizations like universities and   
   >>> businesses that need to set up and maintain Firefox on a large scale.   
   >>> Firefox ESR does not come with the latest features but it has the   
   >>> latest security and stability fixes.   
   >>   
   >> While this is all good for universities/businesses, I'm just a simple   
   >> single user.  There have been occasions, dealing with LARGE   
   >> businesses, where in order to accomplish something I've had to use   
   >> Chrome or work with them over the phone to have them do something   
   >> manually to process whatever and mail (like with a postage stamp) me   
   >> the results.   
   >   
   > You are a single user, but as you are using Leap, you are using the   
   > tools of an organization that seeks stability rather than new shiny   
   > tools :-)   
   >   
   >>   
   >> So the question is:  What are the downsides for me to try and use the   
   >> current release of Firefox?  There seem to be times when I need the   
   >> new features.   
   >   
   > I have found sites that will not work with mozilla, no matter the   
   > version. In those stupid cases, I use Chrome (not chromium). I have   
   > never been tempted to use the latest firefox over the ESR.   
   >   
   > And of course, I have also found sites that will not work over internet.   
   > If they configure addresses that bounce mail or plain do not exist,   
   > there is no browser that will work better with them.   
   >   
   > And there are also sites with really ancient and deprecated designs and   
   > software. Flash, anyone? :-)   
   >   
   >   
   > Downsides? Remember that Leap derives from SLE and thus has a core with   
   > old libraries. Sometimes new software releases are simply impossible to   
   > compile for Leap, they want the newest libraries as well.   
   >   
   > You may recall that the maintainer had a hard time getting Seamonkey to   
   > build.   
   >   
      
   I have not looked at the relevant bugzilla entries for a while now but I   
   think he gave up with 15.2.  Certainly there have been no new versions   
   recently in the Update repository.  The problem there seems to have been   
   Rust - apparently new levels happily break old scripts so a new Rust   
   level under 15.2 was not an option.   
      
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