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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by lucb1e on Saturday May 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#23054849)
The browser is actually the number one component you should update as soon as a security fix comes out. If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use an LTS version that only includes the security updates?
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by pdonis on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:32PM (#23056677)
> The browser is actually the number one component you should update as soon as a security fix comes out.

The problem is that there is no way to have a browser that only pushes updates for security fixes. They're always mixed in with changes to the UI that force people to re-learn workflows.

> If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use an LTS version that only includes the security updates?

There is no such thing. I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on all my computers at home and I'm posting this on, IIRC, the fifth or sixth new version of Firefox I've had to accept (and that's only counting major version changes), because, as noted above, there was no way to just get the security updates and leave out the others.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by gruez on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:37AM (#23056893)
>The problem is that there is no way to have a browser that only pushes updates for security fixes

Yes there is, it's called firefox esr.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by pdonis on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:18AM (#23057238)
Interesting, I'll take a look.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by Macha on Saturday May 02, 2020 @07:57PM (#23055841)
You can note the version everyone is complaining about here _is_ the LTS.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by lucb1e on Sunday May 03, 2020 @07:22AM (#23058349)
You mean the Ubuntu LTS, I meant a browser's LTS version (a sibling comment just mentioned it's called ESR in Firefox instead of LTS... I meant the concept, not the specific name for Firefox, but my bad) so that you don't keep getting browser feature updates but only get the backported fixes.
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