Hi there,
I'm looking forward to it. Is the release date yet planned?
TIA,
Chris
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According to the mozilla faq, there is an overlapp between 17 and 24 ESR. The last 17-version will be 17.0.8, which will exist alongside 24.0.1 so there is no hurry to upgrade.
Besides, I have no idea when John will release 24 ESR, probably once the first non-ESR point release has come out.
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Hi Chris. Just wanted to clarify how ESR works for you. 24 ESR and 24 Stable are the exact same release. So, if you want 24 ESR, just use 24 Stable. In fact, if you switched to 24 ESR as soon as it came out, you should not be using ESR at all since you're not getting any of the benefits. The point of ESR is to take your time adopting a new version to ensure web apps and extensions that are business critical to you work with the new version before upgrading. So, you'd stay on 17.0 for production but install 24.0 in test to begin testing all the important stuff.
If you're using ESR because you think it means you have to upgrade less often, you're using it wrong. Every time a new stable full version of Firefox comes out, a new point release of ESR comes out to fix the same bugs but not get the new features, so you upgrade just as often.
All of the above is why Mozilla points out that ESR is not for end users and makes the download purposely harder to locate.
The only point of our ESR build is to allow extension developers and web developers to continue to test on it for the handful of corporations and organizations that use ESR. Right now, they need to test on Firefox 24 (which they do on Firefox Portable) and Firefox 17 (which they do on Firefox Portable ESR). If there is a 24.0.1 release, stable will be updated to that and ESR will be updated to 17.0.10. When Firefox Portable 25.0 is released, Firefox Portable ESR will be moved to 24.0 and 17.0 will be dropped.
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John, could you add this to Firefox's Support page? Would make the explaining easier for us as this question keeps popping up.
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I added it here: https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#esr
I doubt it will help since the people who keep asking are the ones using ESR wrong in the first place, ignoring everything Mozilla has published about it.
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But it will make it easier for me/us to remember and point people to.
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For all those who want the latest FireFox ESR Portable version, plus ALL prior Portable versions, here's the link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%...
There's absolutely no valid reason in making these versions difficult for people to find.
How people use them is their personal business -- and their reasoning is not for anyone to judge.
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The reason is that they're all insecure and should no longer be used. Mozilla doesn't advertise the local ones (on their site) but they're readily available (via FTP). We do the same.
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