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Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium


From: Christopher Lemmer Webber
Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:14:54 -0400
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Clément Lassieur writes:

> Hi,
>
> Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a
> package for Firefox 60.  Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but
> it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes
> freezes my computer).
>
> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package?  I've read it's
> almost ready[2].  It's probably far better than everything we have,
> despite not being totally 'finished'.  Maybe we can add what's left to
> do as a TODO and fix the package later?

+1 on this.  Considering how well attacked browsers are, not providing a
generally usable recent browser is putting our users at risk.



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