[CentOS] firefox: annoyance

Thu Sep 25 15:20:48 UTC 2014
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Thu, September 25, 2014 10:10 am, Ron Yorston wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>palemoon looks nice
>
> My concern with Pale Moon is that it's based on the Firefox 24 extended
> support release,

Sad. If there is no own developers team behind that, it hardly will
survive "enterprise level" length of time...

> which is no longer supported.  Don't know how that'll
> play out.
>
> In the meantime I've added exclude=firefox to my yum configuration and
> am sticking with Firefox 24.  On Fedora I've switched to Midori.

I've tested and am using midori on my FreeBSD workstation (and some
servers whenever I need to use browser on the server...). I can not push
midori on my users though, as midori is a bit too rudimentary in my
opinion compared to what my users usually need from web browser...

Just my $0.02

Valeri

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