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Is ~a week away from being ported onto its developer's FF Alpha "Nightly" channel, and eventually will become their Beta, then standard version, the latter perhaps as soon as November (currently v-55).
I was using Firefox v-52.2.1 ESR (extended release), which had, until recently, permitted the vulnerable Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash Player to still be used, so that I could view old Flash-based videos online w/o needing to download and view them with WMP or VLC. YT has vids almost exclusively coded in HTML5 now. Apparently only the Microsoft Internet Exploder browser receives Flash patches and updates from Adobe.
Firefox 57's strict adherence to their new "Web Extensions" protocol with this release will mean that many, if not most of the 3rd party add-ons and themes with "legacy" encoding will no longer function and cannot be installed or updated. Presently they still can be used through the "about:config" operation, and going into FF Nightly's guts to change "extensions.legacy.enabled" from false to true, but not after 57 goes from Alpha to Beta.
I have been using Firefox since it was first named Firebird ca '03, and much preferred it over Google Chrome/Chromium, as well as its browser copy-cats, like Opera, its Vivaldi fork, SRWare Iron, ect...this is b/c Firefox is/was much more configurable, esp security-privacy wise, and its TEXT-displayed addons and themes can be sorted by "most users, ratings, popularity, and date" including development or Beta channel versions...UNLIKE the Chrome Store's ad-banner-like add-ons which must be clicked on to see WTF purpose that they might do or don't actually serve. Using older versions of these extensions, as well as checking potential conflicts between them after being installed is not easily accomplished. The Chrome browser does not natively support changing how text and colors are displayed internally or online, w/o perhaps using or creating a userscript via the Tampermonkey add-on.
I downloaded and installed Firefox Nightly v-56 yesterday, so that I could test it out, while using my favorite add-ons in it, and be able to see which ones won't work when 57 is added. But instead of being given the option to install it into the named folder that I had created prior, it overwrote and destroyed my previous Firefox ESR install, that I had spent months personalizing.
So as a result, I am fucking done with using Firefox, as I would guess that most of their still as yet remaining loyal userbase will also soon be, when v-57 becomes the standard. I have downloaded and installed the Palemoon browser, which is an 8 year old fork of Firefox, whose developers created in response to Mozdev's Firefox sudden urge to rapid-release minor incremental improvements and bug-fixes, so to mimic Google Chrome/Chromium, who are now like on version 85.098659 or something.
There is also the Seamonkey browser, that was resurrected from the original Mozilla Suite, that I began to use with my first broadband-internet connected tower PC in '01, which birthed the first tabbed Phoenix browser that became Mozilla Firebird/Fox. There was also another fork of the Gecko-engined Firebird browser, named Flock, but that only lasted a couple years before being abandoned.
ala ESPN's now long-extinct messageboards, which I still recall fondly b/c of our ability to lurk and troll upon rival fans team-boards, it seems like the owners of software and popular sites just can't resist fucking with it...or until their changes kill their original purposes and popularity. Hopefully that will soon also become the fate of the monopoly Amazon and Facebook. Some free and popular formerly open-source software, such as Red Hat/Mandrake Linux, Partition Magic, and Sandboxie. become enterprise or "shareware" requiring a paid subscription, and/or the free versions are stripped down to mere ineffectiveness.
I was using Firefox v-52.2.1 ESR (extended release), which had, until recently, permitted the vulnerable Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash Player to still be used, so that I could view old Flash-based videos online w/o needing to download and view them with WMP or VLC. YT has vids almost exclusively coded in HTML5 now. Apparently only the Microsoft Internet Exploder browser receives Flash patches and updates from Adobe.
Firefox 57's strict adherence to their new "Web Extensions" protocol with this release will mean that many, if not most of the 3rd party add-ons and themes with "legacy" encoding will no longer function and cannot be installed or updated. Presently they still can be used through the "about:config" operation, and going into FF Nightly's guts to change "extensions.legacy.enabled" from false to true, but not after 57 goes from Alpha to Beta.
I have been using Firefox since it was first named Firebird ca '03, and much preferred it over Google Chrome/Chromium, as well as its browser copy-cats, like Opera, its Vivaldi fork, SRWare Iron, ect...this is b/c Firefox is/was much more configurable, esp security-privacy wise, and its TEXT-displayed addons and themes can be sorted by "most users, ratings, popularity, and date" including development or Beta channel versions...UNLIKE the Chrome Store's ad-banner-like add-ons which must be clicked on to see WTF purpose that they might do or don't actually serve. Using older versions of these extensions, as well as checking potential conflicts between them after being installed is not easily accomplished. The Chrome browser does not natively support changing how text and colors are displayed internally or online, w/o perhaps using or creating a userscript via the Tampermonkey add-on.
I downloaded and installed Firefox Nightly v-56 yesterday, so that I could test it out, while using my favorite add-ons in it, and be able to see which ones won't work when 57 is added. But instead of being given the option to install it into the named folder that I had created prior, it overwrote and destroyed my previous Firefox ESR install, that I had spent months personalizing.
So as a result, I am fucking done with using Firefox, as I would guess that most of their still as yet remaining loyal userbase will also soon be, when v-57 becomes the standard. I have downloaded and installed the Palemoon browser, which is an 8 year old fork of Firefox, whose developers created in response to Mozdev's Firefox sudden urge to rapid-release minor incremental improvements and bug-fixes, so to mimic Google Chrome/Chromium, who are now like on version 85.098659 or something.
There is also the Seamonkey browser, that was resurrected from the original Mozilla Suite, that I began to use with my first broadband-internet connected tower PC in '01, which birthed the first tabbed Phoenix browser that became Mozilla Firebird/Fox. There was also another fork of the Gecko-engined Firebird browser, named Flock, but that only lasted a couple years before being abandoned.
ala ESPN's now long-extinct messageboards, which I still recall fondly b/c of our ability to lurk and troll upon rival fans team-boards, it seems like the owners of software and popular sites just can't resist fucking with it...or until their changes kill their original purposes and popularity. Hopefully that will soon also become the fate of the monopoly Amazon and Facebook. Some free and popular formerly open-source software, such as Red Hat/Mandrake Linux, Partition Magic, and Sandboxie. become enterprise or "shareware" requiring a paid subscription, and/or the free versions are stripped down to mere ineffectiveness.
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