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

2024-12-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 4 December 2024 23:25:42 GMT Matt Jolly wrote: > 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

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

2024-12-04 Thread Matt Jolly
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 brows

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

2024-12-04 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 5/12/24 09:04, Alarig Le Lay wrote: The ESR is officially supported by Mozilla, so you don’t rely on only one person (from Nebraska) here. Yes, there have _never_ been whole teams who have missed backporting a seemingly innocuous security fix. That has never in the history of the world

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

2024-12-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Wed 04 Dec 2024 08:32:01 GMT, Jay Faulkner wrote: > 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 backpo

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

2024-12-04 Thread 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 ra

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

2024-12-04 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
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