I'm speaking from experience with the last ESR cycle, downgrading to 78.3 ESR from 80 non-ESR IIRC. I meant having to upgrade to 91 non-ESR while waiting for 91 ESR, not upgrading in the meantime to newer non-ESR versions to reduce downgrade compatibility problems (e.g. ![]() > rushing to latest release, and let the worst bugs / update issues be weeded > AFAIK there are no security issues with 78.15. If not, it'd be a pretty strange coincidence. Now that I recall, it actually happened with the last ESR major version upgrade too, so it's possible that it's an upstream FF Sync problem, where they drop compatibility for older ESR. And I don't just mean extensions: history and sometimes bookmarks too.Īlso, some websites stop working properly with older browser versions. I have the same issue with FF 78.15 ESR on Debian (didn't have the time to upgrade to new stable release): it didn't sync properly, now it doesn't sync at all. The problem for me was that syncing and/or extensions stopped working properly and I need / heavily use a container extension which needs to be synced and fully working, so I had to upgrade to 91 non-ESR (which works properly). I only have a few ~unstable packages, none related to Firefox. ![]() > Out of curiosity, what were those compatibility issues? Related to mixing (In reply to Joonas Niilola from comment #13) I'm quite happy by not rushing to latest release, and let the worst bugs / update issues be weeded out first. > versions, I think it'd make much more sense to choose the _NEW_ versionĪFAIK there are no security issues with 78.15. > isn't enough manpower / resources to maintain both the old and new ESR > This is absolutely bad for security and honestly makes no sense: if there Out of curiosity, what were those compatibility issues? Related to mixing ~unstable with stable? Yeah we should have this documented, or preferably upstream detect a profile downgrade and start from "scratch" backing up the >ESR profile. This is absolutely bad for security and honestly makes no sense: if there isn't enough manpower / resources to maintain both the old and new ESR versions, I think it'd make much more sense to choose the _NEW_ version instead of the old one. I find myself in the same situation: had to migrate to non-ESR 'cause 78 ESR stopped syncing properly at a certain point, now I'm stuck on 91 non-ESR until its ESR counterpart is released on Gentoo. > What would your recommendation have been? Any other options? > (3) staying with an outdated and vulnerable Firefox 91.0.2 until Gentoo > (2) upgrading to later regular releases which would again mean no ESR, and > (1) downgrading to 78 ESR which would again break things for me, > were removed from the tree, I was left between the following bad choices: > Later, when versions 92 and later were released, and the 91.#.# versions > 91 ESR once that is released, so I masked versions 92 and later. > and kept up with the regular releases up to version 91, hoping to stay with > Due to compatibility reasons I had to upgrade Firefox 78 ESR to Firefox 86 > Such policies are not good for users who wish to migrate from regular (In reply to Jaak Ristioja from comment #11) Now it's dead: last release is 78.15, released on together with 91.2 ESR. > I don't think there are currently plans on going 91ESR before 78ESR is Do not try this.(In reply to Joonas Niilola from comment #10) It would be a terrible shame if you had the unstable version of your favorite browser running perfectly on your stable installation. And most certainly do not then try (as root) That's it! So hard, no one should ever try it. $ sudo brl fetch -n myceres -r ceres devuan Reboot and add the Devuan Ceres "strata" to the system, with the name "myceres" (or pick your own preferred name): Download the BedrockLinux script for your architecture from here: … 7/releasesĢ. It takes three whole steps, and like a couple of whole minutes:ġ. I can see why no one would ever want to do it though, as it's SOOOO difficult. ![]() I can't recall for sure, but it seems like SOMEONE made a thread awhile back about "How to use Bedrock Linux to add Ceres packages to your stable Devuan" or something like that.
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