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Can't stress this enough. Using outdates browsers is a liability. You're provoking harm to your network, your computer, your personal data.

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Your comment is somewhat out of place in this case; Firefox ESR 52 is the current up-to-date ESR¹ release. Firefox ESR is kept up-to-date with security patches, just like the vanilla evergreen Firefox. The difference is that the ESR is branched yearly from the main-line, and leaves out all functional patches — only security patches get applied.

This helps organizations who want to test all their tools before moving to a new version. The next ESR release (Firefox ESR 60) will be this summer.

1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

I think that comment was agreeing with my comment, which was written with the understanding that 52 ESR would be better than 56 because the ESR is not out of date the way 56 is.

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