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Re: Iceweasel security updates?

From Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Iceweasel security updates?
Date 2016-04-12 17:50 +0200
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On 04/12/2016 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 April 2016 15:14:08 Harris Paltrowitz wrote:
>> I tried Firefox 45 last week but as you may remember from my recent
>> emails, I experienced major issues with choppy videos in Youtube using
>> Firefox 45, but not with Iceweasel 38.7.1.  I've since done a Debian
>> re-install and I want to start fresh using optimal applications, so I'd
>> like to stick with 38.7.1 (as it appears to be more compatible with
>> Jessie) but I'm curious about the security updates to it.
> Would firefox-esr (same site) solve that?  I wouldn't bank on many updates for
> iceweasel now it is somewhat deprecated.
>
> Lisi
>

I realize now that the selection list on that Mozilla/Debian website has 
several release options that I don't understand -- besides esr/45 (which 
is the version I had problems with) there's release, beta and aurora.  
Do you know what the differences are here?

Cheers
Harris

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Iceweasel security updates? Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 15:10 +0200
  Re: Iceweasel security updates? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 15:50 +0200
    Re: Iceweasel security updates? Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 16:20 +0200
      Re: Iceweasel security updates? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 17:10 +0200
        Re: Iceweasel security updates? Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 17:50 +0200
          Re: Iceweasel security updates? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-04-12 18:10 +0200
            Re: Iceweasel security updates? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 18:20 +0200
            Re: Iceweasel security updates? Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 21:10 +0200
          Re: Iceweasel security updates? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 18:20 +0200
            Re: Iceweasel security updates? Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 18:30 +0200
  Re: Iceweasel security updates? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-04-12 16:30 +0200
  Re: Iceweasel security updates? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-04-12 17:20 +0200

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