On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 05:39:43PM -0300, Leandro Cunha wrote: > Package: firefox-esr > X-Debbugs-Cc: leandrocunha...@gmail.com > Version: 128.6.0esr-4 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Showing a warning with the text "some of Firefox's security features > may offer less protection on your current operating system", with the > link below[1] recommending downloading from the Mozilla repository > claiming that this way I would have more protection? Firefox is > distributed in RPM, distributed in DEB and even Arch distributes it in > its official repositories like Debian. This information may encourage > users with less knowledge to follow what would be mentioned in the > link below. I believe that this message is also not true regarding the > security issue and I trust the work of those who have maintained it > for so many years. See screenshot. > > This message is not relevant, but you can create a patch to remove it > and precisely to prevent more lay users from avoiding using Firefox > ESR (for example) offered by Debian. > This with the idea that such security problems would be fixed.
The message *is* relevant, and the link, while misleading, is kind of right, but it doesn't bring you to the relevant part of the page, which is at the end, under "Security features warning". The link should probably be changed to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_security-features-warning But I'd argue it should have its own separate support page. Mike
