Time for a firefox-56 port?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:27:47 -0500, Adam McDougall wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 20:11, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> I've just installed the latest version of firefox and confirmed that
>> it breaks both of the addons that make firefox bearable for me
>> (firemacs, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firemacs/
>> and It's All Text!,
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/).  So I
>> can't use it.
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only person who relies on old addons.  How about
>> a firefox-56 port until the current problems die down?
>
> I think www/firefox-esr would give you something like 6 months more of
> pre-57 codebase?

Yes, I saw that, but the pkg-descr doesn't say what good it is, and
the Makefile shows that it's based on 52.5.0, which seems to be rather
older than necessary.

> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

Thanks.  That helps.  I've updated pkg-descr.  It also shows that
52.5.0 in fact corresponds to Firefox 57, so the port doesn't help
after all.

Greg
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