Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?
On Wed, 2022-08-24 at 20:13 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> While investigating my options for hardware acceleration in the
> browser I found a snippet on the debian wiki that I'm trying to parse:
>
> From: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Hardware_Video_Acceleration
> > This is for Debian 11 / Bullseye
> > [...]
> > firefox-esr is projected to be updated to version 102 sometime in 3Q 2022.
>
> Normally I would not expect anything in the stable distribution to get
> a large update, but I know that firefox has been treated differently
> in the past, and the wording in the wiki made me wonder.
>
Mozilla stops supporting the old ESR a few months after a new one is
released [1]. So I assume Debian would ship the new one, certainly at
least at the point the old one gets known security vulnerabilities.
[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-esr-release-cycle
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Tixy
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