[GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

o1bigtenor o1bigtenor at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 06:41:54 EDT 2023


On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 10:01 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> | From: Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> Thank you and others for telling us about your experience.
>
> |   If I need something newer, I can "pin" a
> | package, getting it either from testing or backports.  This is
> | admittedly a PITA to set up, and I hardly ever use it because of that
> | ... but I _have_ used it, and it proved reasonably reliable in
> | practice.  Although getting your head around pinning weights is ...
> | nasty.
>
> Can you use that to get the newer FireFox that you need?
>

I've been using Firefox-esr for years from debian testing.
Seems to work reasonably. At present its my predominant use
browser.

HTH


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