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stevep

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Re: Is it possible to install Firefox 57 on Bunsenlabs ?

Users of FF 58 with FF-esr should also take note:

User profiles created in Firefox 58 (and in future releases) are not supported in previous versions of Firefox. Users who downgrade to a previous version should create a new profile for that version.

I take this as it's also possible a profile that's used in 58 will be rendered incompatible with earlier versions, not just created in 58.  But I could be wrong.   

I'm loving the full time tracking protection, though.

johnraff

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Re: Is it possible to install Firefox 57 on Bunsenlabs ?

I take this as it's also possible a profile that's used in 58 will be rendered incompatible with earlier versions...

So it would be a good idea to at least make a backup of your ~/.mozilla folder before upgrading to Fx 58.

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Re: Is it possible to install Firefox 57 on Bunsenlabs ?

Think keeping dedicated/separate profiles is mandatory and very easy to do anyway.

Hoas has a deep rooted aversion to repo mixing and pinning. Should be zero harm, esp in the case of installing one app from Sid, though still prefer running FF from /home too.

Also agree ..think its silly latest FF is considered unstable, should at least be made available via backport but that's the way Debian has chosen it to be and who the heel am I to naysay Debian. Easy enough to install FF ourselves.

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Re: Is it possible to install Firefox 57 on Bunsenlabs ?

Hoas has a deep rooted aversion to repo mixing and pinning

Actually, when I ran my own Debian system I used sid with some packages pinned from experimental

However, BunsenLabs is based on Debian stable and I really do think that mixing repositories in a stable-based system should only be done by experienced users.

Should be zero harm

But it's also completely pointless so why take the risk?

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stevep

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Registered: 2016-08-08

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Re: Is it possible to install Firefox 57 on Bunsenlabs ?

Think keeping dedicated/separate profiles is mandatory and very easy to do anyway.

Hoas has a deep rooted aversion to repo mixing and pinning. Should be zero harm, esp in the case of installing one app from Sid, though still prefer running FF from /home too.

Also agree ..think its silly latest FF is considered unstable, should at least be made available via backport but that's the way Debian has chosen it to be and who the heel am I to naysay Debian. Easy enough to install FF ourselves.

Vll!

The difficulty of backporting the version of rustc required to build the current Firefox releases is preventing the Firefox backports to even Debian Stretch.  That's why mozilla.debian.net also quit doing backports. 

Debian policy means that the build tools must also be available in the target release, and the packages must be built on that release. Backporting is not just copying over the debs from upstream.

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