Firefox ESR
68.6.1
Overview
Firefox ESR is intended for system administrators who deploy and maintain the desktop environment in organizations such as schools, governments and businesses.
What's new in Firefox ESR
Version 68.6.1:
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First of all, I've got a whole lotta .maff files stored everywhere and it's absolutely out of the question for me to spend hours converting them, so the easiest and most reliable way to read them is with FF52. As I still consider .maff files to be the best and lightest way to store web pages, I continue storing new pages this way — I think I've got years in front of me before changing computer to something that won't support FF52 ESR in some way (even if at some point it might be through a virtual machine).
My current main browser is Chromium, my second choice is Waterfox.
It's very likely that I switch back to the latest FF ESR when Chromium drops MacOS 10.11 and Waterfox abandon its pre-Quantum core — as it was the reason I switched from FF to WTF.
I've got also 1Password 4 that's still working nicely between all my current browsers: if I switch to Quantum, I have to switch to 1P6 or Enpass and lose that compatibility.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but to me that was enough to keep things that way instead of following what El Capitan permits.
60.02ESR is https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/60.0.2esr/mac/ and 52.81ESR is https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.8.1esr/mac/ . As always, choose your language. This is a very good reliable browser for small enterprise.
I'm wondering what's the reason behind this... Anyway, I've been using this channel rather than the "stable" one for a few years now (since v38 ESR) after having had some issues, and I don't regret it.
Recent Firefox release history has shown how much ESR is a good choice even for home users. Actually, ESR is the "really stable" channel, compared to the "(quite) stable" one. ;-)
Now, it's the one I advise my friends to install, it has security patches as well as the "stable" channel, and the common user wants a reliable browser more than useless innovations later abandoned such as Hello, etc. Things are a bit different in 2018 as FF57 has changed its core, as everybody knows, and for the time being, the ESR channel is also the choice you make to keep using old extensions — until the next ESR branch (FF60, next summer).