Mozilla launches new Firefox today

Fudzilla ^ | 11/15/2017 | Nick Farrell

[central_va]

I’m a Thunderbird user as well.”

I'll drink to that!

What's the word?

[csvset]

No Script should be ready by the end of the week as per Giorgio Maone.

No Script

[ConservativeMind]

Opera is owner by China now.

Enjoy the spying.

[ConservativeMind]

Opera is now owned by China.

[snarkpup]

I've settled on Waterfox and Pale Moon as Firefox replacements for the forseeable future. My notes are here. I haven't upgraded (or "sidegraded", as I call it) to 57 and have no immediate plans to.

Firefox (at least the old one) is the only browser I have found that decently runs the HTML Validator extension (with View Source and no crashing). This is now the only thing I use Firefox for. Since I only need to validate pages I have made myself, security updates are not an issue; so it probably doesn't matter if it eventually goes to seed.

[CatOwner]

Opera is now owned by China.

Yeah, my one concern with Opera. It's a very close second to Brave in speed, with the benefit of having a good selection of add-ons vs. none for Brave. Opera is also without all of the issues that seem to be plaguing Vivaldi right now, although Vivaldi has a more flexible menu area.

[uncbob]

Used that link
many thanks

[uncbob]

I went with that version
Works great
thanks

[litehaus]

“Don’t like using Mozzlia products after what they did to Brenden Eich.”

Needs repetition all the time.

I still have version 4 on an OLD machine.

Methinks the improvements mean - easier for the folks buying our info records from mozilla...

[TomGuy]

You would think they could at least put out a request to extension developers to prepare new compatible extensions ahead of time.

They did. And many extension developers told them to take a hike. They have been burning extension developers for several years with their changes in the rapid release versions. Many developers bailed a long time ago because they did not have time to re-develop their extensions every few weeks.

Half of the extensions I use will not run on the last 10 or so versions of Firefox. Most of them will still run on the 32-bit versions of Mozilla-based browsers, such as Cyberfox, Palemoon, Comodo Ice Dragon.

[ridesthemiles]

Is that why my computer is sooooo slow today? I am falling asleep here.

[ridesthemiles]

Is that why my computer is sooooo slow today? I am falling asleep here.

[Elderberry]

Until I backed it off of my machine, every time I reloaded a page, my machine would freeze for 10-15 seconds, or so.

[jjotto]

Probably. Quantum is notably slower for me too. I’ll switch back, or to something else. It’s ridiculous.

[JoeProBono]

On the Internets we wallow in dirty hands

[Caipirabob]

SCREW MOZILLA

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[rxsid]

ah, that would explain all those Chinese advertisements and weird computer behavior then. i couldn't figure out why my bank account kept getting drained.

thanks for the info, time to make the switch.

[Right Wing Assault]

If you are still on 54, your setup is not auto-updating. Just leave things alone.

But, if it does update, go here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-of-firefox

[JoeProBono]

I use Waterfox and have bogged it down with add-ons. This Mozilla release has, if nothing else, reminded me how fast a browser can be, but I’m still not discarding my well armored Waterfox. I use different browsers for different purposes.

[Admin Moderator]

In the future, place your browser news in chat.