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For me the end of Firefox begun with the new WebExtensions addons API. Pretty much killed the mouse gestures and similar, which i'm using more than I would like to admit. And to be "user friendly" to everybody who decided not to update, they removed all the plugins compatible with the old Firefox from the addons page. https://ghacks.net/2018/11/...
The problem is I hate Chrome. Have Chromium as a backup a but somtimes it's a bit flaky. Last time I tried Vivaldi, it was still far from the comfort level of Opera12. Tested some other browsers, but none made me happy. There is no other choice than to suffer. -
@qwwerty agree with the Firefox 57+ changes to plugin system. I had to abandon the best dark theme ever, 'FT DeepDark' since it wasn't supported after the change. My complete browser experience changed due to that.
Curious though.. I see u love Firefox... But, why do you hate Chrome ? -
@programmer Using 'FT DeepDark' too :) ... haven't found equivalent for the new FF.
Don't like Chrome pretty much because of the Google and their mindset. Too much focus on Google account sync and their services.
But yes - irreplacable when it comes to web 3D grahpics. Tinkercad is one of the main reasons I'm using Chromium. -
@qwwerty Wow.. so you're still using FF 56 :D ... I can understand.. I maintain 2 versions of FF now - 56 and latest. The former to use the currently incompatible plugins.
What's your opinion about using WaterFox to overcome this hassle ? -
@programmer wow, never heard of it, thanks for the tip
btw i'm even more behind than FF56, just waiting for some embeded script to exploit it :) -
@qwwerty I'm on Vivaldi. Yeah, not as good as the old FF, but so is the new FF. At least, that got me rid of Mozilla's stupid GUI experiments.
What's wrong with Mozilla?!
Savvy webdevs use link preloading to break up dependency chains for late discovered resources, and users like the faster loading as result. Firefox 56 started supporting that two and a half years ago. Turned out they had screwed up and it didn't work with non-cacheable resources. So Mozilla "fixed" that by disabling the feature altogether behind some config flag.
And they left it at that - still not supported. They even had patches, but decided not to merge them and instead try something different, some day.
Is Firefox becoming the new IE or what?
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firefox - new ie?!