Hi Rainer, On 5/12/24 00:35, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
So which slot should I choose? Any opinions out there?
I can't speak for Firefox, but I do maintain Chromium which is similar enough in terms of being a browser with a fast release cycle and several channels. I recommend keeping your browser as up-to-date as possible. The `rapid` channel for Firefox may result in more frequent updates for you as an end-user, but it always includes the latest fixes (and features) That's not saying that ESR is likely to be vulnerable, but the fixes going into ESR are going to be backported from the rapid and development channels. A lot of work goes into ensuring that these backports are done in a timely manner, but it's not beyondthe realm of possibility for one to be missed, or announced and fixed in rapid but not in ESR leaving those users vulnerable. IMO if you're not an enterprise you should be running rapid. If you are an enterprise you have your own requirements to think about, but you should probably also be running rapid. In Chromium terms, I often run the beta (or dev) channels, as I know that security fixes for the stable channel are implemented in dev and backported from there. I hope that helps, I need to run and get breakfast. Cheers, Matt
