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Firefox ESR is an older version of Firefox that continues to receive security updates. It is made for conservative enterprise environments that care more about stability (as in: not changing) than features or fixes. It may or may not be more stable (ideally, newer versions would fix stability issues in older ESR versions), and may use more or less memory (regressions in memory usage should be reported).
I have tried it in the sense that I have a copy around for testing in those odd cases where someone is using ESR. I don't recommend it.
The only time I suggest it these days is when a user specifically asks for a non-development version that allows them to turn off extension signing. That's a pretty rare thing, though.
Oh, does ESR not have mandatory extension signing? That is pretty interesting actually! I thought unbranded builds were the only way to go, but they lack automatic updates.