See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0esr/releasenotes/
This release switches to Gtk3 by default, following upstream. It also
still supports NPAPI plugins (java etc..) for the 52esr lifetime (around
1 year).
This way, 6.1 will ship with a supported branch of esr instead of the
soon-to-be-dead 45 branch.
Discussed with naddy@
- See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/45.1.0/releasenotes/
- Fixes MFSA 2016-39, 44 & 47
- Stays with Gtk2 for now, will probably move to Gtk3 with 52 at the end
of the year
- Bring some patches from www/mozilla-firefox to fix build issues/enable
W^X/etc
- Disable gstreamer, now uses ffmpeg at runtime of found like firefox
- Use bundled libevent
- See http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/24.5.0/releasenotes/
- Fixes MFSA-2014-34,35,37,38,42,43,44 & 46
- add a default prefs all-openbsd.js file, pointing
spellchecker.dictionary_path to ${LOCALBASE}/share/mozilla-dicts/ so
that systemwide dictionaries are looked for by default.
- while here the same file disables safebrowsing feature, as is already
done in www/mozilla-firefox.
Firefox ESR is intended for groups who deploy and maintain the desktop
environment in large organizations such as universities and other
schools, county or city governments and businesses. During the extended
cycle, no new features will be added to a Firefox ESR; only
high-risk/high-impact security vulnerabilities or major stability fixes
will be corrected.
Note that using it on OpenBSD is NOT supported by mozilla. People
willing to deploy it should subscribe to the EWG mailing list.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
Installs as firefox-esr and doesnt conflict with mainline www/mozilla-firefox.
Learn to use several profiles if you plan to use both.
req'd by several.
