Re: Firefox non-ESR update needed
Gene writes:
> I'd tend to look at it like this: If the banks IT people think its a big
> enough risk to use the old version, and demands the new one even before
> the paint is dry, then it must be pretty serious and the distros should
> turn up the heat to get it out into the users hands asap.
More likely it's just a policy of always requiring the latest version
so that they don't have to actually think about it. Besides, it may
support a new widget that the Web designers simply *must* add to the
site ASAP.
> Not sit on it till the next release a year hence as seems to happen
> now, using the excuse that it is a new feature and that has to wait
> for the next chapter of the release cycle.
That's what Backports is for.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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