Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:08, David Wright wrote:
> My reaction upon reading this is that perhaps you should change your
> priorities slightly.
Yes, I understand where you are coming from. I do follow security
advisories and upgrade specific packages. I do periodically upgrade all
packages, just not with high frequency (e.g. maybe every 4-5 months).
> The fact that the system "works" is a high bar for upgrading, and
> takes no account of whether the system has vulnrabilities ripe
> for exploit.
But my computer is necessary for my work so I don't want to jeopardise
it when it is doing the job. Yes, I could use Debian stable and
probably should but over the (many) years, I found that I ended up
needing to start using the backports repository too much. Testing with
careful tracking works for me (fingers crossed).
> OTOH the bank's website may well be checking your version number
> against the latest available from mozilla (87 AIUI), without
> regard for any patching done by Debian.
Yes, very likely.
> FWIW all the sites that I normally visit are working with
> 78.9.0esr-1~deb10u1, the current version. (Note that writing
> "version 78.9" doesn't tell us which version you're running—I see
> a different one in bullseye: 78.9.0esr-1.)
Yes, sorry, I was being lazy. It is indeed 78.9.0esr-1.
Thanks again,
eric
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
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