Mojave and earlier: farewell Firefox

[jchuzi]

Firefox ending support for macOS Mojave and earlier versions

[Dreambird]

Yes... I know... but my Firefox on High Sierra was offering me ESR 115.1 so as to extend security for about a year. I was away for a few days and thought I'd do the update to that when I got home. Now unfortunately it isn't offering it anymore and says my Firefox is up to date at 115.0.2 so where can one find ESR 115.1 or whatever version is correct now? 

So... I HAVE found ESR 115.0.3.
It doesn't specify if that would the correct one... it was just this last weekend that Firefox was asking to "update to ESR 115.1" the normal way but that's not there anymore after just a few days so???

[Dreambird]

Found this:
https://lwn.net/Articles/937831/

Firefox 115 released
Posted Jul 10, 2023 20:42 UTC (Mon) by pavon (subscriber, #142617)
In reply to: Firefox 115 released by anarcat
Parent article: Firefox 115 released

The first two releases of a new ESR are for sysadmin testing. So 115.0 is released now, but you have to manually download and install it. Same for 115.1. Users on the ESR channel will be automatically upgraded from 102.x when 115.2 is released.

But it doesn't tell you where to get 115.1. The story was that people running Sierra through Mojave would be updated via an application update but as I mentioned that "update" through Firefox disappeared after a few days on mine. Nowhere is mentioned to download it manually.

[Paddy]

DB, if you're still looking for it, it's here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

(note - near the top of the list since the file system goes by the first number, not the highest number...ie: the one, not the fact that it's 115)

[Dreambird]

Thanks Paddy...  My MBP automatically presented me with the "update" to 115.1 ESR on August 1st. and installed perfectly. I spent a little time hanging around the Mozilla support forums and was never able to figure out why exactly I was presented with the update that disappeared early... it did so again actually just before August 1. I was able to find out that it happened to more people than just me, and I found out that it was not "supposed" to come out until the release version of FF 116 on or around August 1st. It updated to 115.2 ESR about September 1st and just got an update to 115.2.1 ESR today due to a critical security fix so it's working well!