Posted on 06/04/2013 4:37:34 PM PDT by ShadowAce
FWIW, I don’t care for Mozilla’s “release of the week” approach. Too much for me to keep track of.
I much prefer 2-3 releases per year.
I’m currently running FF 12 and really see no reason to update.
Yeah. I bet I quit using FF after this.
yeah sounds like a game quitter.
Look into ‘Pale Moon’ a Firefox compiled variant browser.
and there is SeaMonkey.
The problem with that is it would force them to look at design issues, instead of just throwing code-monkey/script-kiddies at it.
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GUI overhauls never go well. I’m speaking as a Principal level Software QA engineer.
Maybe I should donate my services.
How to kill a browser: rapid release insanity.
Mozilla ruined a good brower with the rapid release idiocy. I am at FF 15. If I upgrade, I lose several add-ons that the developers quit updating because they got tired of frequently updating their add-ons to fit the rapid release.
My bank updates its tunnel security software to the latest FF, but does not make the version retroactive. Thus, it no longer works with with older (FF 15) versions.
Around FF version 11 or 12, Firefox and Adobe Flash had conflicts with each other. That created headaches — update one and the other went haywire. Those conflicts continued for several updates of both FF and Flash.
Mozilla: It wasn’t broken, but we fixed that.
Although a bane to some, I love the Add-on customization capabilities of Firefox — some extensions like Tab Utilities should really be intrinsic to the browser.
If it didn’t seize so much with Speech Recognition (the later versions anyway) I wouldn’t have any problems with it...
Thank you.
i was pretty alright with 3.6
It’s about time for Firefox to fork, with a clean, light stable version and a continued development of the bloatware everything for everybody version, new release a week line.
I’ve been using Waterfox 64 bit browser for a few months now. Seems ok but I noticed it will not let you checkout at Amazon.com. You can sign into your account but cannot complete the checkout process. Firefox Portable was what I used part time prior to Waterfox. Of course Chrome seems to be my goto browser.
I saw a previous reference to FF ESR. Does it accept add-ons, etc.?
I used to have an add-on that checked versions for other add-ons, but the developer quit updating it around FF version 16.
I don’t want to try another FF and have it mess up my current version+add-ons.
I have several different browsers, and they each have their quirks.
I use IE9 occasionally — my bank’s tunnel security software does work with it. But, I can’t download bank statements, etc., because IE9 doesn’t seem to know how to download PDF files.
It is rather frustrating to have a different browser for different occasions.
Hmm, I have been using Waterfox for probably a year with no problems. Amazon works perfectly.
The only thing I can’t do is reliably log into my work’s remote email.
Does anyone know if this will affect Mozilla “Seamonkey”...browser? We use this with NO problems at all!
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