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On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:54:43 BST Brad Rogers wrote: > > Why anyone bothers with ESR (inc. Mozilla) puzzles me; Most web sites > that care (mostly Amazon, Netflix, etc. IME), want something much newer > anyway. Test engineers, not so much now, but historically test engineers running regression checks wants stable APIs to drive browser features. These days it is more likely to be driven from JavaScript suites which are almost browser agnostic, but there was a time when you could guarantee every web tester worth employing had a stale version of Firefox with a known API supporting a given set of test tools, and migrating that suite would be a major task undertaken only when major releases of software were pending and the rest of development were busy with not releasing code. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq