On 1/17/25 20:30, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote:
Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium
(as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12
Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent and
massive. The upstream teams do not maintain stable versions with
support period comparable to Debian stable. It would be too much
burden for Debian maintainers to track and backport security fixes.
That is why latest Chromium release is available in bookworm. Firefox
and Thunderbird packages follow ESR version, so 102 to 115 to 128
updates with point releases approximately every month.
Chromium has been removed here, http://localhost:80 used by my 3d
printers for remote display and control is redirected to google, which
of course has no clue which of the 10 billion localhost's is meant.
Firefox still works for http://aliias:80
In Ubuntu it was one of the reasons why they seized building .deb
packages for browsers and switched to snap. Latest releases may rely
on features unavailable in development tools from LTS distributions. A
complete container independent of the system alleviates some issues.
I like that Debian developers and maintainers are still able to build
.deb packages for browsers.
unfortunately, not too stable here. t-bird crashes while updating my
local imap cache, so I'm running the beta version.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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