On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 01:34, Felix Miata
I'm asking Wolfgang directly instead of only a list because of firefox-esr changelog, and http://lists.opensuse.org/ doesn't indicate a good place for Mozilla questions spanning different OS releases.
IIUC, 24 is scheduled to take over esr soon.
[snip] With the release of Fx 24.0 (regular) the corresponding Fx 24.0esr was also released. See official Mozilla DL repo: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/24.0esr/
12.3 has latest, 17.0.9, available in mozilla/openSUSE_12.3 repo.
13.1 has 6 month old 17.0.4 available in mozilla:/experimental openSUSE_Factory repo.
1-Is old version for 13.1 oversight? Check main mozilla repo for installs. The mozilla:/experimental/ is only to get a build (of a specific version) working without harming available 'release' repo in mozilla/
2-Can 12.3's rpm be installed in 13.1 without need to backlevel deps/libs? Most of the time yes, but YMMV.
3-Why isn't esr available in a standard Factory/13.1 repo instead of "experimental"? IMHO road-map overlap. It was clear beforehand in planning that Mozilla would release a 'new' esr before openSUSE would release 13.1 (beta)
The spoken of target for 13.1 was either regular Fx (new version every six weeks), or new esr (security fix release about every six weeks). It was clear that 17esr was NOT a viable option for 13.1 with the view that 13.1 would be the base for SLE 12 and next Evergreen. Long term support was a must have. In terms of 'Dumbed down' UI, well, there are two viewpoints: = The "DAU" (dumbest assumable user): Any admin will praise the missing of the option to switch off e.g. JS, b/c of the response of said user: "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN IN FIREFOX" = The educated (power) user: There are Add-ons for these users to 'bring back' the missing ui options, no need to cry. Now you have to choose your poison. It in the eye of the beholder. - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org