Re: Case against Firefox in FESCo

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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Heiko Adams <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2016, 16:37 -0500 schrieb Paul W. Frields:
>> The nightly developer edition is still Firefox, just with new stuff.
>> You don't have to give up the browser entirely.  It seems to me the
>> XO
>> in its normal operating mode was a similar case here.  I hope no one
>> would claim that was non-free.
>
> Why not shipping both versions (dev-edition is not installed by
> default) of Firefox and make the packaged addons depending on the
> developer edition?
> So if someone needs packaged addons or wants bleeding edge features he
> could replace stable Firefox with the developer edition.
>
> IMHO this would be a suitable solution.

More work for someone to do? If someone wants to do that, OK, but
otherwise I think the ESR version is more appropriate balance between
stable and current. Otherwise just get binaries of the developer
version from Mozilla?

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