Time for a firefox-56 port?

[Jan Beich]

Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 25, 2017 7:50 PM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
[...]
> No, the ESR codebase is still pre-57 for features (meaning add-ons still
> work). But it's caught up to 57 for all security/stability fixes.

According to ESR FAQ, stability fixes "are not in scope" while security
fixes are "limited to high-risk/high-impact".