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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by gcp on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:21PM (#12565754)
Much of the recent breakage was to introduce essential features that users have been loudly asking for for years, such as multi-process support and content processes in a security sandbox.

If you're intentionally running very old versions which by now have published exploits, then I can see that these are not things you would consider important.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by rackforms on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:36PM (#12566443)
In the end: Thank you for your comment : ) My annoyance with the plugin situation, and at first, no resolution for it, was fixed in 45: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef...

I'm now running the latest version of FF, but still able to use my plugin.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by rackforms on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:43PM (#12565958)
Progress at what cost? Does maintaining security have to also mean breaking the systems that pay my bills?
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by gcp on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:20PM (#12566292)
I do not think you want to be paying your bills on a browser that's been compromised, no.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by rackforms on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:27PM (#12566848)
It's a dev box that only touches local resources.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by Manishearth on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:48PM (#12567012)
This is what Firefox ESR is for IIRC.
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