Well there’s Brave to go to. FF just may have shot itself in the foot.
Brave wants google account, which sux rox. Another alternative, please?
The problem with Brave (https://brave.com/) is they do not support add-ons/extensions though they say they may do so in the future:
https://brave.com/faq/#browser-vs-extension
However, they are at the top of the list in speed and privacy.
I'm afraid you're right.
Back in the early 90's I switched from SpyGlass (NCSA Mosaic) to Netscape, and from Netscape to Firefox. (Spyglass was bought by Microsoft and became IE.) I've used Firefox ever since because I have to run everyday on Windows, Linux, and Mac computers, and using different browsers with different rules and bookmarks was insane. Firefox was my sanity.
No more, sorry to say. Sic transit.
Unfortunately, Brave has its own set of issues. (I had no choice but to use Brave after FF stopped working properly for me, this past week.)
Frankly, Brave sucks hairy moose balls.
I tried it on my win10 laptop and went back to firefox. The inability to navigate with the back button is truly irritating. There are other issues that made it unworkable for me.
I like Brave a lot.
I like to keep all the extensions, Flash, etc. at a minimum. If I need some of that for a particular website, I’ll use Epic Privacy Browser.
I uninstalled FF when they booted their CEO for daring to think for himself.
Firefox: your options to run legacy add-ons
Firefox users who rely on specific legacy add-ons have a couple of options to retain their functionality. The following options are available:
Switch to Firefox ESR (until June 26, 2018)
Firefox ESR, [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/] Extended Support Release, will support legacy add-ons until June 26, 2018. This special version of Firefox is maintained specifically for organizations that require more stability and less change when it comes to software.
Firefox ESR gets all the security updates that Firefox Stable gets, but none of the functionality changes. The current version of Firefox ESR, 52.x, is based on Firefox 52.0. This means that it won’t incorporate any changes made in Firefox 53, 57 or even 60.
It is no longer supported after the release of Firefox ESR 52.8.0 which is released next to Firefox 60....
Block further updates (unlimited, but insecure)...
Pale Moon (not all add-ons are compatible)
Pale Moon, which shares a lot of code with Firefox, may be an option of the add-ons that you want to use work in the browser.
Not all Firefox add-ons are compatible with Pale Moon on the other hand, so you best verify this before you migrate to the browser. https://www.ghacks.net/2017/08/08/firefox-your-options-to-run-legacy-add-ons/
Then there is
What is Basilisk?
Basilisk is a web browser building on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP), an application platform currently in development, a true fork of Mozilla’s pre-servo platform code and using a new iteration of Goanna as a layout and rendering engine, that will allow customizable, cross-platform applications to be built using the XUL markup language. The web browser is both a vessel to facilitate development and testing of UXP, and a direct replacement for Firefox with full add-on capabilities (both NPAPI plugins and all types of extensions). http://www.basilisk-browser.org/preview/index.shtml
Also,
I did a Firefox upgrade last week and it is bleeding out into my memory terribly!!! I.e. using up massive amounts of memory!
I don’t know if I am doing something wrong, but I am considering uninstalling it completely as it is so frustrating that I have to keep checking the Task Manager to see how much it is gobbling up and close it down several times daily. For me it is almost unusable.