Re: Keeping firefox up to date
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:02:20 +0100 Liam O'Toole
<liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> >> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> > Greetings all;
> >>
> >> Hi, Gene.
> >>
> >> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can
> >> > anyone tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks all.
> >>
> >> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
> >>
> >> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
> >> version of Firefox available in Jessie.
> >
> > Ah! ESR, but not release. Sorry, Liam. I tried release.
> >
> > Lisi
> >
> >
>
> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get firefox-esr.
Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either. Why
should Firefox be any different? I suspect that support will stop next
year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends. The consequences of
"progress."
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