I am looking at Vivaldi and PaleMoon as alternatives. Sadly, PaleMoon
uses it's own somewhat odd updater that it seems like you have to
remember to run occasionally (at least on Linxu) and isn't actually
faster than Firefox with lots of tabs. There's also WaterFox but I can't
really comment on it further than it exists.
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
On 12/20/2017 03:39 PM, Fred Bauer wrote:
I'm not a system administrator, and I don't even play one on TV. I'm
just a long-time Firefox user who was forced to switch to the ESR
channel because of intense dislike of the new "normal channel" Firefox
release. I don't understand why Firefox had to essentially mimic the
Chrome UI, which does not support how I want to use my computer browser.
Now it seems from the messages on this listserve that the forthcoming
ESR release next year will probably adopt the same ADD-friendly regular
Firefox/Chrome UI, and I'll be left without a useful browser. Depressing.
I don't know if my feelings are shared by anyone else, but I did want to
put them out there: *not everybody wants their computer browser to work
like a smart phone browser*.
Thanks for listening,
Fred Bauer
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*From:* Enterprise <[email protected]> on behalf of
Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 20, 2017 5:06 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [Mozilla Enterprise] Announcing the next Extended Support
Release of Firefox - ESR60 with policy engine
The Firefox ESR (extended support release) is based on an official
release of Firefox desktop for use by organizations including schools,
universities, businesses and others who need extended support for mass
deployments. Since Firefox 10, ESR has grown in popularity and many
large organizations rely on it to let their employees browse the
Internet securely.
We want to make customization of Firefox deployments simpler for system
administrators and we’re pleased to announce that our next ESR version,
Firefox 60, will include a policy engine that increases customization
possibilities and integration into existing management systems.
What is the policy engine?
The Policy Engine is a project to build a Firefox desktop configuration
and customization feature for enterprise users. The policy engine will
work with any tool that wants to set policies and we intend to bring
Windows Group Policy support soon. We’ll be initially supporting a
limited set of policies but this will be evolving through user feedback.
More details on the policy engine can be found here.
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/EnterprisePolicies>
Bug reference <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419102>
What’s the plan?
In order to accommodate the group policy implementation, we are making
Firefox 60 our next ESR version and will be following this plan:
* May 8th - ESR 60.0 released (we’d love feedback from early adopters
at that point and will be sharing a feedback form through the
enterprise mailing list)
* July 3rd - ESR 60.1 released
* August 28th - End of life for ESR 52 and release of ESR 60.2.0. No
further updates will be offered for ESR52 and an update to ESR60.0.2
will be provided through the application update service
Also please keep in mind that Firefox 57, released last month, supports
only add-ons built with theWebExtensions API
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions>. This means
that Firefox 52 ESR is the last release that will support legacy
add-ons. If you developed an add-on that has not been updated to the
WebExtensions API, there is still time to do so.Documentation
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Porting_a_legacy_Firefox_add-on>is
available, and you can ask questions by emailing [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>or joining the #webextensions channel
atirc.mozilla.org <http://irc.mozilla.org>.
If you are supporting users who use add-ons, now is a good time to
encourage them tocheck if their add-on works
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-firefox-addon>with
Firefox 57+.
Erin, Felipe, Jeff, Kev, Mike Kaply, Romain, Shell & Sylvestre
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