Ok, I logged into google with ESR52 and a completely fresh profile, and it worked.
So, I suspect its my problem now to figure out why more and more sites have been failing to render for the past few months. But my main question was about the profile manager not telling you what its about to do with what version of Firefox. — Perry > On Apr 21, 2018, at 11:26 PM, Perry Wagle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sort of need someone that uses ESR52 to confirm or deny my experience (try > logging out and back in to google?), I think? > >> On Apr 21, 2018, at 11:06 PM, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 04/21/18 09:34 PM, Perry Wagle wrote: >>> The issue for me is the increasing use of what I think is bleeding edge >>> javascript to render just about everything. Today, I found that both >>> digitalocean and gmail won’t render on ESR52. >> >> I'm still on 45ESR and Gmail works fine (besides some problems cycling >> through the compose options, probably due to using a fork {OS/2}) > > Can you logout and log back in? > >>> But sure I can run another browser, but if I do on macOS, and set my >>> default browser to ESR52 (which it sees just fine), it works unless I >>> either don’’t have it open, or else have a newer Firefox already running, >>> and then that something starts up a profile manager window that doesn’t say >>> which version of Firefox is going to open that profile. And that means you >>> can destroy your ESR62 profile with the migration path to the hot new >>> Firefox that you are trying to port your life-saving legacy webextension to. >> >> Mozilla seems to do zero testing for back-grading a browser instance and >> officially don't support it. > > Yeah, I know, that’s what I was trying to say. > >>> Three solutions come to mind: >>> >>> (1) Get the profile manager to at least say which browser is trying to open >>> that profile. >>> >>> (2) Make ESR’s a real fork, and stop failing to pretend its FF52. >>> >>> (3) Upgrade ESR52’s javascript engine to something more modern. (I assume >>> that this last is a non-starter, but I thought I’d ask after it). >>> >> >> (4) Sites not updating so fast as the ESR versions are _supported_ >> Generally I've found it takes a couple of years before a version really >> starts to have problems. > > My wild arsed guess is that everyone is targeting the revolutionary Firefox > 59+, and ignoring earlier versions, unlike previous upgrades. But as I said, > someone else needs to try ESR52. > >> Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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"
