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Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox

Posted by Unknown on from the can't-stop-until-version-73 dept.

mvar writes "After a meeting held last Monday regarding Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release, the new version was announced yesterday in a post on Mozilla's official blog: 'We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities, and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox Add-ons platform.'"

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  1. ESR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to keep reading this as the Eric S. Raymond release.

  2. Re:Enterprises Will Like This! by grahamlee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then, at some point in the future, Mozilla will run a campaign explaining that 10% of the interwebs is on Firefox 11 ESR, but there have been loads of new features and enhancements since then so we should all tell people to upgrade to Firefox 17. Friends don't let friends use IE 6^W^WFF 11.

  3. Re:Enterprises Will Like This! by bigrockpeltr · · Score: 5, Funny

    This year will be the year of Firefox in the Enterprise!

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    $ unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep