I agree with Mr. Bauer!!! I am NOT at all pleased about the Firefox switch!!! In doing so I think that Mozilla is just sending more users over to Chrome and Firefox will soon be history!!!
-----Original Message----- From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James M. Pulver Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox - ESR60 with policy engine 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > *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 were 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. Well 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> > > Whats 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 (wed 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_l > egacy_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-firef > ox-addon>with > Firefox 57+. > > Erin, Felipe, Jeff, Kev, Mike Kaply, Romain, Shell & Sylvestre > > > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" > _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
