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These groups — which include small & medium business, enterprise, academic, and government — want to continue to offer Mozilla products to their users, but they need a version of Firefox that gives them a longer support tail than what we currently offer. | These groups — which include small & medium business, enterprise, academic, and government — want to continue to offer Mozilla products to their users, but they need a version of Firefox that gives them a longer support tail than what we currently offer. | ||
This is a '''proposal''' for an Extended Support Release (ESR) for Firefox that will help meet those needs. | This is a '''proposal''' for an Extended Support Release (ESR) for Firefox that will help meet those needs. | ||
'''Notes:''' | |||
* The proposal doesn't address organizations deploying Thunderbird. A Thunderbird-specific discussion is held on the [[Thunderbird/tb-enterprise|Thunderbird Enterprise mailing]] list, and is documented [[Enterprise/Thunderbird/ExtendedSupport|here]] | |||
* Product enhancements, such as Microsoft Scriptable Installer (MSI) and Group Policy Object (GPO) support are not part of this proposal. | |||
* John O'Duinn has posted a [http://oduinn.com/blog/2011/10/10/modification-to-the-extended-support-release-proposal/ proposal for maintaining the ESR from a Release Engineering point of view]. This proposal addresses implementation and, if adopted, would affect organizations who deploy the ESR '''AND''' allow Firefox to update through its built-in updater. It does not affect the intent of the ESR proposal itself, but could limit the deployment time organizations that deploy the ESR and use Firefox's built-in updater to one release cycle (6 weeks). To our knowledge, most organizations that deploy the ESR would disable automatic updates, and this should not affect them. | |||
= Proposal = | = Proposal = | ||