totally different experience, FF ESR decided to update itself just the other day and break a bunch of stuff out of the blue, because of course moz://a knows better what I need and when I need it. It is very sad people like me need to put up with this abusive behaviour because the alternatives are worse
I support plenty of end users on Chrome and Edge at work and will happily oblige my wife by installing and configuring Chrome on all her devices. Firefox is what works for me and what I am comfortable using at this time. Unusable was certainly a hyperbole on my part.
I've never used Linux full-time, but from my understanding, neither GNOME Web nor Konqueror are Blink-based. Are they missing critical power user features?
> Despite being a component of GNOME, Web has no dependency on GNOME components, so it can be potentially installed on any system supporting GTK and WebKitGTK.
If not, your only way of fighting back is using Firefox and Safari, so that people still make websites that work in something else than Chrome and Google's monopoly isn't complete.
Then I have no way of fighting back, because I don't use Apple machines and Firefox no longer meets my needs and I have significant performance problems with it.
Over years I've found it really useful to accurately test web-page developments for Apple device compatibility on Linux distros without needing an Apple device or emulator.
That is not to imply the surrounding browser 'chrome' and UI is equivalent - but rendering certainly is close enough that most of the time pixel-accurate comparisons are valid.
Even Debian keeps up-to-date with latest webkit upstream. E.g. right now (Jul 5th 2023) Debian's libwebkit2gtk 2.40.2-1~deb12u1 (on Debian 12 Bookworm) shows this Changelog:
webkit2gtk (2.40.2-1~deb12u1) bookworm-security; urgency=medium
* Rebuild for bookworm-security.
* The WebKitGTK security advisory WSA-2023-0004 lists the following
security fixes in the latest versions of WebKitGTK:
- CVE-2023-28204 and CVE-2023-32373 (fixed in 2.40.2).
-- Alberto Garcia <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:00:05 +0200
webkit2gtk (2.40.2-1) unstable; urgency=high
* New upstream release.
* debian/rules:
- Pass -VNone to dh_makeshlibs for javascriptcore to keep the behavior
of the debhelper compat level 11 and earlier.
-- Alberto Garcia <[email protected]> Tue, 30 May 2023 10:19:01 +0200They disabled the setting to enable XUL extensions.
They disabled a bunch of extensions I had installed on firefox android.
As long as FF doesn't buy into Manifest v3.
Which it will.
Because it will.
I would have been OK with it if it didn't come with the loss of functionality.
Good times figuring out why users couldn't access certain sites after ignoring the vague opt-out message, good times.