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I'm not sure if something has changed, but due to changes they've made, at least before they couldn't ship out the updates until they made it so that the updates actually affect their changed codebase. Which understandably causes delays. So there'd always be this delay with something being fixed on Firefox and then being fixed on the downstream projects.
Surely there will be some delay but not that much, for most updates the fixes are transplanted directly to the downstream project making the patches coming very fast, almost as fast as the original project
I've just soured on them from when there has been issues. Some security patches took a while because of the changed codebase. Good if that doesn't happen anymore though.
Should retry it and make your own decision
I'm confused. I've already made my decision when I used them before and it doesn't seem like the main thing (them being just downstream of Firefox) has changed? Like said, I don't see the benefits being big enough to warrant a switch.
If it's not for me then you are free to stay with stock firefox
Thanks