{"slug": "firefox-esr", "name": "Firefox ESR", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 3.24, "rising": 3.0, "first": "2026-09-02", "latest": "2026-10-25", "why": "I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/enterprise/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Firefox ESR"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801332032, "item_id": 50083252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083252", "by": "Melatonic", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Your long term stable branches are a great start - that's what I use at work !", "excerpt": "Your long term stable branches are a great start - that's what I use at work ! A centralised admin platform that integrates easily with others is of course also great. Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise with a mix of more oldschool GPO admx style policies (which are very detailed and robust however) and the cloud managed Google Workspace stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 801157088, "item_id": 50072318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072318", "by": "SloopJon", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the extended support release instead. Less frequent updates, and fewer sudden changes", "excerpt": "I'm sure this is great for improving adoption on the admin side, but I'm also sure that I would hate using a locked-down Firefox. My company has management software that nags me about the latest Firefox version, which is annoying, because I use the extended support release instead. Less frequent updates, and fewer sudden changes like the AI features people have been grumbling about. Incidentally, 153.5.0esr was relea", "context": "employee whose company runs management software", "use_case": "daily browsing at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 792493840, "item_id": 49530865, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530865", "by": "gblargg", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues.", "excerpt": "Even better, I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues. Otherwise the browser has a stable feature set and no new features.", "context": "", "use_case": "stable browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "Hackbraten", "context": "Librem 5 daily driver user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229701", "date": "2026-10-25"}, {"by": "SloopJon", "context": "employee whose company runs management software", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072318", "date": "2026-10-13"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["web browsing", "work browser", "daily browsing at work", "stable browser"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302", "title": "Firefox Enterprise", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211474", "title": "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527748", "title": "Hang on to Your Firefox", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 803675217, "item_id": 50229701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229701", "by": "Hackbraten", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "reading your comment on Firefox ESR on my daily driver", "excerpt": "Not GP, but I'm reading your comment on Firefox ESR on my daily driver, a Librem 5 running PureOS, another mobile Debian fork. The OS is maintained by paid contractors, funded by Purism hardware sales and donations from users. What is your goalpost for a \"serious OS\"?", "context": "Librem 5 daily driver user", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"}, {"id": 801332032, "item_id": 50083252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083252", "by": "Melatonic", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Your long term stable branches are a great start - that's what I use at work !", "excerpt": "Your long term stable branches are a great start - that's what I use at work ! A centralised admin platform that integrates easily with others is of course also great. Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise with a mix of more oldschool GPO admx style policies (which are very detailed and robust however) and the cloud managed Google Workspace stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 801157088, "item_id": 50072318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072318", "by": "SloopJon", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the extended support release instead. Less frequent updates, and fewer sudden changes", "excerpt": "I'm sure this is great for improving adoption on the admin side, but I'm also sure that I would hate using a locked-down Firefox. My company has management software that nags me about the latest Firefox version, which is annoying, because I use the extended support release instead. Less frequent updates, and fewer sudden changes like the AI features people have been grumbling about. Incidentally, 153.5.0esr was relea", "context": "employee whose company runs management software", "use_case": "daily browsing at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 792493840, "item_id": 49530865, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530865", "by": "gblargg", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues.", "excerpt": "Even better, I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues. Otherwise the browser has a stable feature set and no new features.", "context": "", "use_case": "stable browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}]}