Firefox 60 and Firefox 60 ESR released
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Firefox 60 and Firefox 60 ESR released
Good news regardless of what distro you are using, watch your repos for the release announced by Mozilla today.
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Yeah, I'm waiting for ESR to get updated in Debian to switch back to ESR channel. Right now even SID still has 52 ESR, although it has 60 for "mainline" release.
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Debian is very slow, but MX 17 and Ubuntu Mate already have Firefox 60
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Oh, well they have 60 in SID, and have since the day after it was released. But it's labeled as a "mainline" release only still. If you install the -esr version of Firefox, it still redirects to v52.
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Im always impressed with MX17 as they will set it up so you can use Chrome or FF 60 even though its based on Debian 9 and typically would use the FF ESR or Chromium. They give users an easy path to use optional software with a one click option.
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There's a few distro's that do that. MX does have one of the better implementations for a debian based distro, though, yes.
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They offer kernels and other apps and features with a one click option, along with the MX Tweaks for various common functions like inxi.
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60-esr is now in Debian Experimental. I switched on my desktop from 60 to 60-esr today to start testing. Not surprisingly, at this point there's basically no difference.
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Re: Firefox 60 and Firefox 60 ESR released
Alot of RPM/Debian 9 distros havent moved to it which surprised me. PCLinuxOS was the only one. Most are using 52.8ESR
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From what I've read, Debian plans to move to 60 ESR when 60.2 is released, as that's when 52-ESR will be EOL'd.