Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed

[Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com>]

On 7/7/20 8:20 am, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Gary Dale wrote:
> > This is a wish-list feature but I'm running Debian/Bullseye and the only
> > version of Firefox is the ESR one. It's stable but it has display bugs that
> > I'd like to if they are fixed in a newer version.
> >
> > An updated (non-ESR) version of Firefox would allow me to figure out which
> > spacing is the more accurate. I expect outside of the Debian world, most
> > people are not using the ESR release and most are probably more current than
> > what I'm using.
>
>
> You're not disallowed from installing Firefox from Mozilla, it's
> just not packaged because it updates at least once a month,
> and that would violate "stable" policy.
>
> I recommend uncompressing it in /opt if you need to offer it to
> multiple users, or anywhere in your /home if you don't.
>
> -dsr-

Here hear, I say

As an example, I run nightly (shows as v80) on Bullseye. It updates at 
least every day, seems like sometimes twice a day, but I may be loosing 
track of when I deferred the restart - you get the option of restart now 
or later.

Over at least 6 months, I have had 2 instances of it not wanting to 
start on reboot.  I just download and install the latest version on the 
Mozilla site.

I use a separate partition for the apps I use mostly - I multi boot and 
/home is mounted noexec.


If that sounds like to advanced there is the beta option as well.

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Keith Bainbridge

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