[SOLVED] Firefox Current?

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[SOLVED] Firefox Current?

Postby retriever » Aug 25th, '13, 06:45

Is there any way the current version of Firefox could be incorporated into Mageia? Just curious, and thanks. :)
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Re: Firefox Current?

Postby isadora » Aug 25th, '13, 08:25

Don't know, what release you are pointing at exactly, but meanwhile it could be worth reading:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3806&p=27369&hilit=esr#p27347
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Re: Firefox Current?

Postby retriever » Aug 25th, '13, 12:21

Thank you for the explanationa and the link.
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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox Current?

Postby ralgith » Oct 4th, '13, 02:50

Personally I'm hoping to see Firefox 26's memory fixes incorporated into ESR releases soon.

For those unaware, here's the blog post:
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/20 ... k-117-120/
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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox Current?

Postby retriever » Feb 4th, '14, 06:04

Are security fixes made to ESR versions made available to Mageia users via updates when they are released? Also, how much additional effort would be required by the community to have the latest Firefox version available. Just curious, and thanks for version 4 - it rocks.
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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox Current?

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 4th, '14, 10:54

retriever wrote:Are security fixes made to ESR versions made available to Mageia users via updates when they are released?

Yes. Please keep in mind that packagers, developers and QA team are quite exhausted from the release run, so it may take some time until the
necessary infrastructure for updates is in place and until first updates start coming.

retriever wrote:Also, how much additional effort would be required by the community to have the latest Firefox version available. Just curious, and thanks for version 4 - it rocks.

We decided intentionally to use the ESR version. There won't be the latest version available as packages, that's only available for Cauldron and called firefox-beta. But you can simply download the tarball from Mozilla, extract it and you will get updates directly from Mozilla. So why should we offer that?
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