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Starting to look forward to July when the next ESR will be out. Really tempted to just go ahead and upgrade to FF67 now but have grown fond of the stability of

Starting to look forward to July when the next ESR will be out. Really tempted to just go ahead and upgrade to FF67 now but have grown fond of the stability of the ESR releases.

jillesvangurp 7y ago
I've been on the Beta channel for the last few years. I can't remember the last time it crashed. It's just not a thing with Firefox these days. But then, they do push out new betas every few days so I end up restarting the browser quite often. Either way, stability is fine even with the Betas. I'm pretty sure there are quite many beta users so by the time a release comes out of beta, it has already survived many weeks of testing in the field by gazillions of real users abusing it on all kinds of platform and hardware combinations. So, stable should be perfectly fine for day to day use if you feel less adventurous. It's basically the release intended for world+dog. The only people actually using ESR probably are enterprises that for whatever reason actually care about which version of Firefox they are using and third party software integrators that just don't want to deal with major changes every minor release. Tor browser is a good example. I'll click the update button after clicking reply. It seems I missed a few updates. Zero issues that I noticed with this one: 68.0b4.
- eikenberry 7y ago
  Thanks. I switched to Chromium way back when FF first started their fast release cycle and kept breaking all my plugins. I finally switched back about a year or so ago and stuck with the ESR releases to be sure to avoid that. But now that they seem to have a stable plugin API I was considering switching to the standard stable releases as it doesn't seem like it should be an issue anymore. Though that also means finding a good source for them as I currently just use the packages from Debian Stable (well, upcoming stable as I upgraded to Buster early).
floatboth 7y ago
ESR for personal use? wow. I'd only expect that on boring corporate machines. I use Nightly everywhere :)

Starting to look forward to July when the next ESR will be out. Really tempted to just go ahead and upgrade to FF67 now but have grown fond of the stability of the ESR releases.

jillesvangurp 7y ago

I've been on the Beta channel for the last few years. I can't remember the last time it crashed. It's just not a thing with Firefox these days. But then, they do push out new betas every few days so I end up restarting the browser quite often. Either way, stability is fine even with the Betas. I'm pretty sure there are quite many beta users so by the time a release comes out of beta, it has already survived many weeks of testing in the field by gazillions of real users abusing it on all kinds of platform and hardware combinations. So, stable should be perfectly fine for day to day use if you feel less adventurous. It's basically the release intended for world+dog. The only people actually using ESR probably are enterprises that for whatever reason actually care about which version of Firefox they are using and third party software integrators that just don't want to deal with major changes every minor release. Tor browser is a good example. I'll click the update button after clicking reply. It seems I missed a few updates. Zero issues that I noticed with this one: 68.0b4.

eikenberry 7y ago
Thanks. I switched to Chromium way back when FF first started their fast release cycle and kept breaking all my plugins. I finally switched back about a year or so ago and stuck with the ESR releases to be sure to avoid that. But now that they seem to have a stable plugin API I was considering switching to the standard stable releases as it doesn't seem like it should be an issue anymore. Though that also means finding a good source for them as I currently just use the packages from Debian Stable (well, upcoming stable as I upgraded to Buster early).

floatboth 7y ago

ESR for personal use? wow. I'd only expect that on boring corporate machines. I use Nightly everywhere :)