On 06/05/2013 01:57 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
> I'd like to hear some pros and cons with using the latest firefox from
> mozilla instead of using the ESR version that comes with the stock
> distro.  I am deploying a web app that fails to render properly. It is a
> bug in firefox which has been fixed since version 18.
>
> Naturally, the ESR version is 17. Sigh...

As we were deploying new Nvidia-equipped stereoscopic 3D scientific 
visualisation workstations using X86-64 SL6x, we had to make a decision 
as to whether to use the SL distribution Firefox (ESR) or the latest 
production release.  After considering the pros and cons (including that 
the machines are behind a network firewall), we selected the current 
production version.  Thus far, we have had no issues, and have done 
several updates using the Mozilla Firefox update technique, not the SL6x 
update, keeping Firefox up to the current production release.  Part of 
the reason for the decision was the observation you also have made; 
certain defects that were corrected in the production release did not 
have the corrections backported to the earlier release ESR SL version.

Yasha Karant