[SOLVED]Why Firefox ESR?

[jlalarcon]

Hi. This is only curiosity, not an actual request for support.

Why the decision of include in Mageia Firefox Extended Support Realease, instead of last Firefox Stable Release?.

Thanks very much.

[sturmvogel]

Because Firefox RR has a high amount of releases which might brake some stuff. Additionally RR would require a high amount of time from the devs and QA-Team to build, test and release the Firefox packages.
Firefox ESR has less releases and is more stable and suited for stable linux distros. And due to the less frequent releases, the burden for devs and QA-team is also less...

[morgano]

Users who want other releases can install binary packages from upstream, or as flatpak.
At least the flatpak can be run completely independent in parallell, and flatpak also have some configurable sandboxing.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flatpak

[jlalarcon]

Hi.

Thanks for the replies. Flatpak of Firefox 123 is now installed and working.