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Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

From	local10 <local10@tutanota.com>
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Subject	Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster
Date	2018-11-08 11:30 +0100
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Nov 8, 2018, 4:43 AM by brad@fineby.me.uk:

> I'm no fan of the move to WE myself, despite the security issues
> claimed(1) to exist with XUL. It's one of the reasons I use Pale Moon.
>

I was looking into PaleMoon/Basilisk/Waterfox myself but decided not to proceed at the time as they are not in the Debian repository.

> Just be aware that v52 (in testing) isn't going to get security updates,
> and that can be hazardous.  Also, some site no longer work in v52 -
> anything video related is at risk as more sites move to playback
> technology that v52 can't do.
>

The majority of security issues are related to Javascript use and with Noscript installed this attack vector should be reduced somewhat as I only enable Javascript for a few websites. Am still deciding what to do though, just wanted to see how easy it would be to go back to 52.9.

Thanks for the info.

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Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2018-11-08 06:50 +0100
  Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-08 09:10 +0100
    Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2018-11-08 10:20 +0100
      Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-08 10:50 +0100
        Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2018-11-08 11:30 +0100
          Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-08 13:50 +0100
          Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-08 14:40 +0100
          Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-11-08 16:00 +0100
            Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-08 16:30 +0100
              Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-08 17:10 +0100
            Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-11-08 18:40 +0100
              Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-08 19:20 +0100
            Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-11-09 00:00 +0100
  Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-09 07:00 +0100

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