[CALUG] CentOS7 appearance and FF addons

[Bryan Smith]

Dave Dodge <dododge at dododge.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 02:32:40PM +0000, Walt Smith wrote:
>> The initial install has Firefox 45.4...  which, when I try
>> a couple addons is already outdated !!!
>
> CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise are designed for long-term stability, so
> they bundle old/stable versions of things and then might add patches
> for bugs.

They also ship the Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox. [1]

You don't want to be running ESR if you are looking for the latest add-ons.

- bjs

[1] Firefox ESR
 - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

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