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Mozilla Firefox updates about to land!
I’d expect they will be available on the update channels tomorrow (Tuesday 20th October)
For early adopters:
Both are currently available via the Mozilla FTP:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
Mozilla Firefox 82.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/82.0/releasenotes/
Mozilla Firefox ESR 78.4.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.4.0/releasenotes/
Documentation now available.
Had recieved ESR 78.4.0 via Mozilla PPA last week. I haven’t encountered any issues at all on LM19.3.(see pic)
Security fixes for Firefox 82.0: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-45/
Security fixes for Firefox ESR 78.4.0: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#firefoxesr78.4
Firefox 82 crashes with Windows 10 report on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1672523
seems to be attributed to security software according to poster Quinn Jones:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/firefox?tagged=bug1672523&show=all&owner=all
In some cases this also prevents firefox 82 from starting with no dialog and subsequently, an inability to uninstall firefox as posted by dirkvdm85
I figure 82.01 will be issued very soon
if you want stability and securtiy only updates for firefox, then ESR is your best bet from the two channels offered for regular end-users. (nightly and beta’s excluded)
The mainstream version is always plagued with bugs when a new point zero is released, mostly fixes for regressions due to new features being added.
I’ve been there long enough and got tired of updating for silly features that I didn’t use (or neutered via about:config) which made me move to ESR years ago.
Update/ Edit: there’s more issues listed over on Bleeping Computer
? says:
just got the FF 82 on my ‘buntu’s. changed my never remember history to “custom,” so i changed it back. i can’t remember so why should my browser? it also added a delightful “autofill credit cards,” ha, ha, ha… no thank you:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/credit-card-autofill?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
see link on above page to not saved “CVV number,”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_security_code
maybe aws is handling the security? oh goodie!
like cuz down in Cotullia says:”Easy Come Easy Go”…
UPDATE: Looks like Mozilla is about to roll out Firefox 82.01
FTP link in First Post
Firefox released within a day 82.0.2
From Mozilla – Fixed duplication of WebSocket messages in certain cases (bug 1673340)
I’m currently on 82.02, no observed issues. (No observed issues on 82.01 either.)
Win 11 home - 24H2
Attitude is a choice...Choose wisely
Okay well, I’m not detecting any screams from people with arrows stuck in their backs so – I bit the bullet and updated my Firefox to 82.0.2 today. All seems okay except I had to tweak the setting for showing credit card info. by unchecking it. No major changes to the GUI and no detectable toys added. I’m relieved for now.
Under Privacy & Security settings, about half way down the page, under the heading of “Forms and Autofill”.
I’m on 82.0.2, and had disabled it by removing the check mark as soon as I heard about it upon upgrading to 82.0. Well, when I looked for its exact location to tell you for this post, it was checked again even though I’d disabled it in 82.0!!
Needless to say, I promptly disabled it by removing the check mark yet again! Let’s see just how long it remains unchecked this time.
I also went in to the configuration file to remove the setting by disabling it from showing up in the first place, but I’m not sure that will prevent the setting from automagically being changed back to enabled against my will. 
PS:
Umm…on second thought, I had to take advantage of System Restore the other evening, and it may have rolled my FF profile settings back to the way they were before I caught the setting after having installed FF 82.
Mozilla wanted to “accelerate” their Firefox updates – more faster than Microsoft’s “two feature updates a year” pace for Windows 10, DriftyDonN
82.0.2 is another minor FF 82.x bugfix
by middle or late November 2020, Mozilla plans to release Firefox 83.0; roughly about 4 weeks after Firefox 82.0 was released in late October
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There were some more bugs they had to fix. I wish Firefox would just offer security type updates, and let it up to us if we want the fancy dancy stuff that consumes more and more memory. The current FF version 82.0.2 when running with no website loaded consumes over 200 MB. As I’m now composing this message, I checked and it’s using around 1 Gig of memory. I only have AskWoody up, and I don’t have a lot of fancy things running. I think that’s a lot, but then I don’t keep other programs running in the background so it doesn’t affect me at all.
That mozilla link is worthless.
I have been a mozilla user since Netscape. I am increasingly unhappy with patch after patch after patch after patch … they STILL beg for donations. – it used to be a worthwhile donation now it’s become charity for bad code.
@DriftyDonN
Change Mozilla channel.. ESR is the way to go if you prefer firefox, it’s security only patches with no where near the amount of fixes for the crudware baggage that’s introduced every new version of the mainstream firefox.
I compare it to W10 without ‘creature updates’, only security updates like the Group B patching for Win7/ 8.1
Thank you, Yes. you can move your (modified) prefs.JS into the new ESR and no need to edit it. Remember to backup/export your extension settings (where applicable) and bookmarks 
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