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The browser is actually the number one component you should update as soon as a security fix comes out. If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use
by lucb1e 7y ago
The browser is actually the number one component you should update as soon as a security fix comes out. If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use an LTS version that only includes the security updates?
- Macha 7y agoYou can note the version everyone is complaining about here _is_ the LTS.
- lucb1e 7y agoYou mean the Ubuntu LTS, I meant a browser's LTS version (a sibling comment just mentioned it's called ESR in Firefox instead of LTS... I meant the concept, not the specific name for Firefox, but my bad) so that you don't keep getting browser feature updates but only get the backported fixes.
- pdonis 7y ago> The browser is actually the number one component you should update as soon as a security fix comes out. The problem is that there is no way to have a browser that only pushes updates for security fixes. They're always mixed in with changes to the UI that force people to re-learn workflows. > If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use an LTS version that only includes the security updates? There is no such thing. I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on all my computers at home and I'm posting this on, IIRC, the fifth or sixth new version of Firefox I've had to accept (and that's only counting major version changes), because, as noted above, there was no way to just get the security updates and leave out the others.