There are much fewer ESR versions than "normal" ones.
You can see from the above image that not every Firefox version has a corresponding ESR version. This is clearly shown in the article Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport : There is no guarantee that this will work for the next ESR version. The ESR version is entirely distinct from the normal version, even if the differencesĪre very minimal for a given version, so one should use the released ESR version.Įven if updating channel-prefs.js works for the some version such as Firefox 10.0, However, not every non-ESR version can be converted to ESR just by changing channel-prefs.js. It's hard coded in the channel-prefs.js file, so changing in about:config will not work.
#Firefox esr version update
(Note: While this question was written originally for Firefox 10, I expect any answers will apply to future ESR versions as well.)Ĭonverting to ESR is done in principle by updating in defaults\pref\channel-prefs.js this line : pref("", "esr") Īccording to the mozillaZine thread Changing Your Update Channel, So, is it possible to switch to ESR without a reinstall and, if so, how? However, I don't know what these values should be for ESR or if anything else should be tweaked. Is switching to ESR really just a matter of switching the update channel? I presume this can be done in about:config by changing and probably also. In regular Firefox, the About screen shows that I am using the "release" update channel.
#Firefox esr version full version
Newer versions of Firefox's standard build will have all the latest and greatest features, while ESR releases are meant to provide stability for environments that can't be expected to keep up with a new full version number change as often as Mozilla does them. After the new standard version of Firefox comes out, ESR releases will only receive critical security updates and bug fixes for the remainder of their support life. This is great for fresh installs, but I was wondering if there's a way to simply convert existing installations to the ESR configuration without having to do a full install.Īs I understand it, the only difference between ESR and regular Firefox will be how they receive updates. Especially as a German customer also pays for the extensive package library.It took some jumping through hoops (including a mailing list subscription that I apparently didn't need) but I finally found where to download the Firefox ESR. I personally find the biggest criticism of PDQ-Deploy is that only English language packages are available in the "Package Library".
#Firefox esr version 64 Bit
Wget windows -> download the classic 32 bit version 1.14 here or, go to this Windows binaries collection at Eternally Bored here for the later versions and 64 bit builds. In our environment i had to add the wget-proxy-option :
You could create a script that automatically downloads the current German version with wget and overwrite the PDQ-Version, for example: wget -content-disposition -c -P "%PUBLIC%\Documents\Admin Arsenal\PDQ Deploy\Repository\Mozilla\Firefox-ESR\x86" "" wget -content-disposition -c -P "%PUBLIC%\Documents\Admin Arsenal\PDQ Deploy\Repository\Mozilla\Firefox-ESR\圆4" ""