Re:Firefox 67
by envolt on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:51AM
(#19977875)
This was fucking absurd update. My firefox profile was not compatible, and all my extensions were removed (And resynced). I was using Containers to manage all my work/personal/work2 sessions, and they are all gone (Again; first happened when firefox addon outage happened)
Pocket integration that nobody asked for, breaking extensions, removing useful features like RSS and bookmark descriptions... I've been a Firefox user for something like 15 years and I wish they could get back to focusing on making a good web browser, the direction they have taken lately has been incredibly disappointing. They do some cool projects, but I can't be happy for those when the core experience keeps getting worse and worse.
Re:Firefox 67
by morog on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:13AM
(#19979605)
multi-account containers work fine for me after update, but also broke when the addon-apocalyse happened. I did have a fresh profile setup on 66 though for my new laptop.
Re:Firefox 67
by pornel on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:54AM
(#19979511)
You right-click the Pocket icon, "Remove from Address Bar", and you unshackle your browser from the tyranny of this Mozilla-owned optional free bookmarking service.
Re:Firefox 67
by eridius on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:22AM
(#19977745)
Then I guess you just care about the headlining feature listed as the very first item in the list.
> Now you have the power to block video ads that autoplay when you open articles and links. Plus, Firefox has upped your protection against ad trackers.
Re:Firefox 67
by webmobdev on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:14AM
(#19978278)
What you are looking for is Pale Moon (https://www.palemoon.org/) - a browser being developed with a hard fork of Mozilla Gecko rendering engine without all the Firefox "shitty new, shiny things that everyone thinks is the latest fad that needs to be in the browser".
This is fairly neat; For example, I browsed to the Datacamp website and was notified of a breach in 2017. But that must hurt for the company.
Still, it strongly incentivizes keeping high security standards, because now, customers will know. I like it.
Or, did I misunderstand what 66->67 does?
> Now you have the power to block video ads that autoplay when you open articles and links. Plus, Firefox has upped your protection against ad trackers.