Hello,
I want to know (and possibly ask) if it's expected that you proposed ESR versions of firefox and thunderbird portable ...
The development cycle of six weeks (and even 4.5 in this case if you see the 10.0.1 and 0.2 versions) is much too short for me and others I think ...
My problem is that I really have a nomadic use of my key and often the updates are launched when I work on several differents pc with differents safety rules, differents firewall filters and often short time.
So if you mix all these parameters, it gives problems of partial updates and not finalized, bits of program everywhere, and especially that become unstable app ...
I know I can disable the auto-update, but I lose the security updates...
Thank you for reading (even if it's Gogole English ;-)) and possibly to take this remark into consideration ...
Totoche,
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As soon as Firefox 11 is released (i.e. standard and ESR diverge).
Previously known as kAlug.
ESR and regular Firefox are currently EXACTLY the same. So there is no reason to have it as a separate track at the moment. Once they diverge, we will be doing an ESR version. It will be primarily designed for developers as Firefox ESR is only supported for corporate customers. It is not intended for normal home users. That's why it's purposely hard to find on the Mozilla site and has no big green download button for it.
Also keep in mind that updates will happen about as frequently for the ESR version as for normal Firefox. They'll just have the security updates, not the additional features. So it will not alleviate your need to frequently update at all. That's not the point of ESR. The point of ESR is to stabilize on a given set of *features* so a corporation can test it with corporate apps and verify it works and then continue using it for a year without having to reverify a new browser engine. That's why the current ESR-ish version of Firefox (3.6.x) has had 27 updates since it was released two years ago, meaning there's been a new version of it released a bit more often than every 4 weeks since then. Same reason Firefox 10 ESR was released only 26 days ago but has had two releases since then (10.1 and 10.2).
The bottom line is that ESR is not actually a solution if your desire is to update less often. You'll still need to update every few weeks due to security updates.
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Ok,
Thank you for your clarification.
I think I have to switch to manual mode and wait to be in more suitable environment ...
My problem (advantage;-)) is that my personal pc is underlinux ... So my portable version of FF is on windows only at work on binding environments ...
thank you