Newer features are not available with Firefox ESR and you're liking to see them months down the line rather than instantly with the mainline Firefox release.
What's the different between Firefox ESR and Firefox?įirefox ESR is the most stable and tested version of the browser which makes it more suitable for organizations which cannot deal with change very well. Get rapid releases to make sure you get the latest features faster, or go extended to ensure a super stable experience. With install packages and a wide expansion of group policies and features, deployment is faster and more flexible than ever. The Firefox browser is open source, provides Enhanced Tracking Protection and soon will support DNS over HTTPS - all part of our longstanding commitment to data protection. Firefox ESR does not come with the latest features but it has the latest security and stability fixes. Note, at this stage, nothing is going anything near production, the acceptances tests are running against servers either running locally or in a UAT environment.Extended release support version of Firefox without the bleeding edgeįirefox Extended Support Release (ESR) is an official version of Firefox developed for large organizations like universities and businesses that need to set up and maintain Firefox on a large scale. So, really, the only option is to make sure a older version of firefox is available on your development machine, so you can run the acceptance tests.īut just to be clear, this doesn't mean I am sitting browsing the web with a old firefox browser, it simply means that to complete a build, I need to have a environment available on my machine that can finish a build (including the automated testing, which relies on seleniums webdriver, which relies on well, a older firefox ). Now, you can't just remove selenium from the build(that would mean stripping the acceptances tests for the UI), nor just randomly upgrade it, even if a newer version was there (there is a process for changing the build). Which means, if the machine running the automated tests have a firefox version newer than that, the build will fail. Now, selenium currently only supports firefox up until v20 ( … leaseNotes).
These automated acceptance tests are done with various tools, and more often than not, one of these tools being the selenium web-driver. Usually, if any modules of your project has a web ui, a subset of the acceptance tests will be written against the UI. Most larger companies, who develop in a BDD or ATDD way, will have a very clear defined build, testing and deployment process. Hello again, I don't think I clearly explained the scenario, there is not really any mess for us to fix.
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