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Re: Keeping firefox up to date

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On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:02:20 +0100 Liam O'Toole
<liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2016-08-14, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 August 2016 21:19:55 Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> >> On 14/08/16 16:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> > Greetings all;
> >>
> >> Hi, Gene.
> >>
> >> > It seems the mozilla.wheezy-backports link has been nuked. Can
> >> > anyone tell me where to get the latest FF for wheezy?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks all.
> >>
> >> Did you try using http://mozilla.debian.net ?
> >>
> >> There you can find Firefox ESR 45 for oldstable, which is the same
> >> version of Firefox available in Jessie.
> >
> > Ah!  ESR, but not release.  Sorry, Liam.  I tried release.
> >
> > Lisi
> >
> >
> 
> No problem. I didn't realise that 'release' was not available on
> wheezy. That is slightly worrying as it suggests that a time will
> come when esr is no longer available either on wheezy. In the
> meantime, Gene won't have to add new respositories to get firefox-esr.

Well, Chrome is no longer available or supported on Wheezy either.  Why
should Firefox be any different?   I suspect that support will stop next
year or so when Long Term Support for Wheezy ends.   The consequences of
"progress." 

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Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-14 21:50 +0200
  Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 22:20 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 23:40 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 05:10 +0200
  Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-14 22:30 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 23:40 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-15 00:10 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-15 18:50 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:20 +0200
        Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 17:00 +0200
          Re: Keeping firefox up to date Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-08-15 17:30 +0200
            Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 20:50 +0200
              Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
            Re: Keeping firefox up to date Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
    Re: Keeping firefox up to date Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-15 05:00 +0200
      Re: Keeping firefox up to date Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:10 +0200
    Re: jonesasamoah2193_ You_are_PreAppr0ved q1Bj Jones Williams <jonesasamoah2193@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 13:50 +0200

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