Mozilla to focus on minimizing desertions to Edge with new Windows 10 Firefox

Stop the stupid rapid release of Firefox updates. They have done significant damage to the browser.

This has bugged me to now end for a few years now.

Many extension authors gave up on updates a long time ago. Newer Firefox releases broke extensions.

And this is too bad. I've had a few extensions that stopped working several versions ago and they all gave up updating their extensions. I miss them.

I might try out Edge to see what all the hype is about. I’ve heard good things about it, but I want to take it for a spin myself. I don’t like the idea that it will change user settings and make it a default browser. For those less savvy that might be frustrating, but at least there will be the ability to return the default browser to a user choice after the in place upgrade. OSX has always retained user settings, including default browsers during in place upgrades. I’ve done in place upgrades on my Macbook Pro since Snow Leopard and currently use Yosemite.

well, three things:

Express set-up? Really? People should take the 25 seconds to choose what they want to install. It's not like they will do this very often
This is for the default browser -- most of the time to open up a page, i specifically choose a browser and I'm sure most people do that
People can change this setting anytime they want

I think it's a valid way to get people to try Edge

I tried Palemoon as an FF replacement, as I stopped updating FF at ver 15. Pm was okay until ver 24 to 25 when some extensions quit working.

I have since found a Mozilla based browser called Cyberfox. I use the 32-bit version. Most of my preferred extensions will work with it. I keep my fingers crossed at each new update.

https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/

IE has had its death warrant signed -

And I for one am overjoyed by this.

One of the most annoying things I've run into in the corporate world are poorly written websites that will only work with IE. Not only that, they tend to work with only specific versions of IE. I can't tell you how many headaches this has given me.

This is going to force some of those things that is going to finally force them to fix these broken apps. Thankfully, they are getting to be fewer and fewer as time goes on. However, for some corporations, they are going to have issues upgrading until those apps can be fixed, because as far as I know, there is no way to install a standalone copy of IE on an upgraded system.

Serves them right IMO.

I'll be interested in seeing if MS has managed to finally build a browser that isn't swiss cheese as far as vulnerabilities are concerned. From what I understand, they've finally abandoned active-x (which is where a hell of a lot of those vulnerabilities were coming from) That's a really good thing, because it's also the active-x stuff that was what was making websites IE-only.

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