On 2016-06-10, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2016-06-10 08:13 +0000, Curt wrote: > >> In order to upgrade iceweasel, apt is asking to install an extra >> package, notably firefox-esr, whereas (when) I am running firefox-release. > > Yes. The switch from iceweasel to firefox-esr has been mentioned in the > recent DSA 3600-1 security announcement[1]. > >> Is this a dilemma? Can I run both firefox-esr and firefox-release? > > Yes, albeit not both at the same time with the same profile (this has > always been the case). >
How would that work having both packages on my system at the same time; I mean, for example, if I typed 'firefox' in a terminal which flavor would I be likely to launch? Is there no clean way simply to keep iceweasel permanently 'kept back' without resorting to uninstalling it, as I really have no need for both the esr and release versions? Thank you. -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
