[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42178: Outdate-notice for Firefox ESR on dashboard

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#42178: Outdate-notice for Firefox ESR on dashboard
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 Reporter:  wemhoff      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Changes (by ocean90):

 * status:  new => closed
 * version:  4.8.2 =>
 * resolution:   => invalid
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hello @wemhoff, welcome to WordPress Trac!

 Thanks for the report. This is a known issue and caused by a change to the
 Browse Happy API, see https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5976.

 To quote @clorith from
 [https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QHM0P8/p1506957715000282 Slack]:

 > Unfortunately, there's no way to distinguish ESR from mainstream
 releases of FireFox
 > So we either have to artificially lower the FireFox version, or stick
 with knowing that ESR users will get the notification until firefox
 introduced a new UA string (there's a 2 year old ticket for that
 enhancement with no traction, so I wouldn't hold my breath, but that's
 basically the problem here)

 I'm going to close this as invalid since the dashboard widget relies on
 the Browse Happy API. Any issues related to the API should be reported on
 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/.

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