Re: [gentoo-user] Package "www-client/firefox"

[Jay Faulkner]

There is no truly correct answer to that question. Here's my $0.02: I always want to run the latest release of a web browser -- otherwise you're counting on folks to be able to identify every single patch related to security and backport it -- even if people are trying. This is why I run the rapid slot of Firefox.

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Jay Faulkner


On 12/4/24 6:35 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:

Greetings,

Gentoo provides  two flavours  of Firefox,  one in slot "esr"  (Extended
Support Release) and one in slot "rapid"  (new release  every 16 weeks).
In an attempt to interpret  the names of these two flavours  I would ex-
pect "esr" to offer new features less frequently than "rapid",  but as a
user I would prefer installing the flavour  where in particular security
exposures are dealt with  more responsibly, that is, where less security
specific bugs occur  due to more intensive testing  and where those bugs
occuring anyway are generally fixed more rapidly.   So which slot should
I choose?  Any opinions out there?

Sincerely,
  Rainer

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