Posted on 01/10/2016 8:20:13 PM PST by Utilizer
Have not used it (as a browser) since at least 1996. Never felt any loss thereby, as Opera and Firefox work much, much better.
Good luck with that.
“Not sure why people still use Firefox.”
Addons. Here’s the ones I use to increase my productivity by a couple of orders of magnitude: adblock plus, betterprivacy, classic theme restorer, cookieculler, element hiding helper for adblock plus, ie view, findbar tweak, flash video download helper, refcontrol, roboform, tab mix plus, visited, et al.
Differences in browser speed are pretty much irrelevant anyway when one has REALLY high speed ISP, lots of RAM, and a solid state hard drive.
Nope, only Firefox. I have an OS image (clonezilla) that’s not a year old from a bare metal fresh install I could restore.
Microsoft generally does not care what other (non-microsoft) products are adversely affected by any of their “upgrades”, so long as their OS and Office flagship products are able to evolve to the point where other company’s products must figure out how to change enough to work with the latest iterations of those programs or run the risk of being defined as “obsolete”.
It seems to have worked out rather well for them thus far...
The Opera browser works quite well on this end -perhaps you might consider giving it a try?
Much better than IE, as far as I can see.
Nice list - Thanks!
Thanks, I haven’t used IE for an age, I recall switching after IE5. I’ve used Opera, it is quick, but I like FF for its customize-ability. Plus I’ve been using it for an age. I have a collection of old browsers on my other laptop, fun to play with...
I’m very non-tech savvy. How do I know what version I am on?
Add checkCompatibility to the list.
Even better, install FF 43 and Mozbackup.
Download the following Mozbackup saved backup profile, unzip it, and use mozbackup to “restore” it to your current FF profile and you’ll get all of my extensions and settings, optimizations, etc. It won’t wipe out your bookmarks, history or cookies,downloaded file list, certificates, saved form details, saved passwords, but will replace all of your other settings and your extensions.
You might want to use mozbackup to FIRST SAVE your current FF setup just in case you don’t like this one, and that way you can restore the old setup.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_hrA7ihzIPlbExscHFkVFlXcE0/view?usp=sharing
doesn’t include roboform because that has to be purchases.
Hooray. When they stop supporting them we can too, makes life a lot easier.
Tell me about it. No more "Compatibility View Hell."
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