Posted on 06/01/2021 9:35:05 AM PDT by CedarDave
If you like your Firefox browser the way it is, DO NOT DOWNLOAD version 89. They have completely redesigned the browser look and tossed out your browser userchrome.css files.
Click the link for the changes to show the changes and the second link for problems already discovered:
Search Support (key in "firefox 89")
Ping to ShadowAce, dayglored
I like menu bars, not “hamburgers”.
I boycotted Mozilla’s products ever since they forced their CEO Brendan Eich to resign for simply making a quiet donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for supporting traditional marriage in California.
Eich has since developed the BRAVE browser. I’ve been using it for over a year and I found it to be faster, easier to use and relatively secure compared to the Firefox browsers.
Switched to Brave last night, I like the Tor tab option too.
tkm7n
40 minutes ago
· edited 21 minutes ago
I went back to 88.0.1. This pisses me off so much. Before I went along with all the updates lately, I waited probably 2 years to update because of days like today. It's like going to work and finding everything rearranged.
“I boycotted Mozilla’s products ever since”
agreed
dumped them, gladly, proudly and easily.
Sounds like another instance of a project manager justifying his existence by changing the look and feel of something that already works.
I went to the Avast secure browser years ago. I do occasionally have to use Chrome on incompatible sites - about once every six months - but I like it a lot.
It also has two new features: I can download any youtube video as either an mp3 or a 720p video. And youtube videos are completely commercial free.
Were you able to import your bookmarks to Brave?
Or laughing their butt off because people hate the changes. Sometimes I swear they do these things on purpose because they enjoy ruining a good thing
Same here. I might add that Brave seems to be following the lead of the rest of the tech moguls of late though.
Bingo. Glad I am not the only one to have told them to bugger off on account of that political crappola. Mozilla went off the rails years ago, technically too, not just imposing ideology. Once FFox hit version 40 or so additional “features” were released on such a rapis basis that it was obvious they were racing against the development of addons that blocked adverts. They sold themselves to advertisers.
I recall Brave, but not enough to comment.
I do maintain the ESR versions of FFox, 45 and 52. Both allow addons and don’t suffer from too many features. They are designed for corporate environments where regular “updates” are unpopular. Just don’t allow updates and keep your anti-virus updated. Oh, and ESR52 is sloooooow.
Lol, reminds me of the “upgrade” from Win 7 to Vista-8-10.
My computer is not a cellphone or tablet...
Ugh not again. They did a total revision of firefox a couple of years ago. Destroyed everything, all add-ons, lost bookmarks etc. Why would they ever think of doing something like that? It’s like a new and improved bottle of shampoo made with Nair.
New feature they have always had...
“PerformanceEventTiming”
Every drag&drop, keystroke and click is connected to an outside API. TRACKING to every fine detail.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PerformanceEventTiming
Very good to know. What a bunch of incompetents they are.
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