One of the selling points of Firefox is the vast extension library it has, but thanks to their terrible management, and ignoring Firefox for years to promote social issues-because you know, that’s more important that making an application-they have upset many extension developers who have washed their hands of it, and angered users who switched to something that wasn’t trying to force an ideology down their throats.įirefox will never be greater than Chrome, and that’s saying something since Chrome is a terrible browser. I disagree with the person who said that ” it has a future regardless of this extension nonsense”. No thanks, I just want a working browser which not only does Pale Moon provide, they do it without shoving their beliefs down my throat. Mozilla was so obsessed with it at the time, I felt like they were basically trying to sell me it as a Religion.
I don’t care about Social Issues, I don’t care about who does what outside of work, I care about a good browser, not an ideology. Windows is doing the same thing, of course, as we speak.įirefox lost me as a user several years ago to Pale Moon.
#PALE MOON FORUM WINDOWS 10 MEGA THREAD SOFTWARE#
It seems that in time, every software project decides to go off on some bizarre tangent and essentially kill off the project as far as longtime users are concerned. Those that can be ported to WebExtensions should continue to work in WF, but I don’t think they will in PM, which I believe will only support the old-style addons. Whether addon devs will continue to support their addons for WF remains to be seen. It’s tolerable if it is the only way to retain my addons, but with WF, it looks like it will be possible to eat our cake and have it too, though it makes addons like Classic Theme Restorter that much more important. Pale Moon is another possibility, and while I would have no problem at all moving to that if the other choice was the neutered Firefox, the lack of multiprocess support (e10s) means the jankiness (as Mozilla calls it) that has typified FF and its derivatives for years will always be there. I know the kind of thing this will require is done all the time by Linux Distros, where they maintain older branches of various projects and backport applicable security and stability bugfixes as they are released. If he’s not going to be able to keep doing this on his own, this would be the most logical project to become truly a community effort to replace what Mozilla takes away. The dev has posted about needing to find a repository for the formerly Firefox plugins, so he’s aware of the need. WF will continue to support XUL extensions, NPAPI plugins, and have all telemetry removed into the future, among some other things. Both are good PM has come a long way too, but WF supports e10s, while PM doesn’t, so for now I am using WF. Now, with Firefox set to cut off their defining feature in their never-ending goal of becoming Chrome, I’ve revisted both WF and Pale Moon. I used it some time ago, before Mozilla finally got around to delivering a 64-bit Windows edition, but when the 64-bit edition finally came, I went back to that.
0 kommentar(er)
