[CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 18:06:15 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> Why do you need Firefox 27 ... CentOS has the latest ESR version of
> Firefox (24.3.0) that gets security updates and it will always be the
> ESR version, so it will always get security updates and always move
> forward.  So, moving forward and supported.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
>
> This firefox should be relevant, do almost everything the new one does,
> and be supportable within an organization.  In fact, Mozilla chose to
> work with Enterprise Linux groups while Google basically thumbed their
> noses at the prospect.
>
> Why can't an always moving forward branch of Firefox work for you?
>

Oh, I didn't realize Firefox ESR had reached ver 24! I thought it was
still at 17. Thanks Johnny. 24 has built-in pdf support and is faster
than 17.  I'm switching my lab back to the ESR version. Thanks. :)



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