> I would expect not, though, since we are
>> still rolling it out to the full population.

I do believe the plan is to enable e10s on 52 ESR, but with the Firefox
50 restrictions (e10s enabled by default, disabled if a11y APIs used,
disabled if non-WebExtension, non-mpc=true add-ons enabled).

That was my most recent reckoning of it, anyhow.

-Mike

On 18/01/2017 11:38 AM, Ben Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>> While things have stabilized since then we are in process of making a
>> major
>>> architectural change in order to support multiple content processes
>>> (multi-e10s).  This will make it very difficult to uplift fixes.  Once
>> the
>>> new architecture has stabilized we should be able to enable SW in the
>> next
>>> ESR.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing context, but I find the notion of not-shipping
>> things on ESR that are available on the normal release channel pretty
>> strange. Maybe this is because I'm incorrectly assuming that the
>> majority of Firefox usage in the wild is not on ESR? Alternatively, is
>> Service Workers the only thing getting major architectural changes for
>> multi-e10s? (I would assume not.) If not, are we withholding all those
>> other things from the ESR channel, too?
>>
> 
> Last I checked we do this all the time for new and potentially unstable
> things.  For example, AFAIK we do not enable e10s on ESR.  I have not heard
> if that will change for 52 ESR.  I would expect not, though, since we are
> still rolling it out to the full population.
> 
> I just don't think we can commit to providing stable security uplifts to
> ESR for a 9 months if our trunk version is completely different.
> 
> Ben
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