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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But then you use Debian and what's preinstalled is Firefox ESR, so you have to install Firefox anyway.

    [–] bruhduh 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What is wrong with Firefox "extended support release" ESR ?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    Not op, but nothing significant IMO unless you're a web developer (in which case it's worth considering using the dev edition instead) or just want the latest features.

    The ESR on Debian gets updated reasonably frequently with backported security patches and bug fixes

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Not all security issues get CVEs. Thats only the security parts. Its old as balls, and Firefox never had any breaking bugs for me, thats the "old as balls" part

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I get better performance from the release version than from ESR. The ESR version in Debian has always been slower than the release version for me. Especially on YouTube.

    EDIT: For those that doubt: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/z6655k/how_to_make_firefox_esr_work_with_youtube/