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Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster

From local10 <local10@tutanota.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Reverting firefox-esr upgrade in Buster
Date 2018-11-08 10:20 +0100
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Nov 8, 2018, 2:55 AM by brad@fineby.me.uk:

> Why?  Apart from the move from XUL to WE extensions, going back is
> simply asking for trouble security-wise.  Also, more and more sites will
> stop working correctly as v52 gets more out of date.
>
> That said, to wind back, you set up a new repo as per this page:
> https://snapshot.debian.org <https://snapshot.debian.org/>
>

Some plugins disappeared, some no longer work the way they did (meaning they now work worse), NoScript freaked me out when I saw what happened to it. And in general, with each new release FF seems to be getting worse and worse: more dumbed down while at the same time being bloated with "features" like tracking, telemetry, promotions, social, etc.

Anyway, thanks for the link.

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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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