On 16/03/2016 11:40 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Marc writes: >> I am perfectly happy to continue downloading from Mozilla if that will >> keep me current, and Debian's repo will not. > > Why do you need to keep current? Just curious. Well, security is a good reason to remain current; but those ESR versions get security updates. It /may/ be better to stick with ESR on the basis that Mozilla likes to change things up regularly and it breaks how Firefox works :( Latest case in point, Firefox 44.x would allow nice and easy copy of a section of a webpage (links, pictures, everything) -- ready to be pasted in to an email or a document of some type (fully formatted with relative link adjustments). It worked very well, better than saving entire pages or printing to PDF or similar. Now with Firefox 45, all you get is plain text; it seems to be formatted plain text (color?) .. but that's it. This is a significant change. Going forward, lots and lots of extensions will likely need complete re--writes due to Mozilla changing how they will support extensions (old extensions that are abandoned and have worked well for years, won't get any love). I want updates, but I don't want functionality to change so much that things that worked easily before are now impossible or much more difficult. Oh and they took away tab groups reently too, but there is a current extension that adds that facility back. Part of the problem with Firefox is that it is too driven to compete with Chrome -- all the reasons that I prefer Firefox are being destroyed, rather than fixed or cherished. And I don't want to use spyware that is Chrome unless I have no choice. Let Firefox stand on it's own, it doesn't need to be a Chrome clone; heck Chrome was born out of Firefox in the first place..... Kind Regards AndrewM
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