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I hate Chrome but tolerate Firefox.
| I refuse to update Firefox until they atone for being stupid fucking asshuffers and ruining everything with their mandatory add-on-breaking police state lockdown shit
| >>406450
Theyre mad because Firefox crippled users ability to use addons.
"Appearing on November 14, Firefox Quantum brings together a number of long-running programs to speed up the web browser -- including using its C++ alternative language Rust and multi-process functionality -- but it comes at the cost of Firefox's best feature, its extensibility.
| This is far from a surprise, with the switch from XUL to WebExtensions first signalled in mid-2015, but it is a hard break with the past.
Many popular extensions have already been ported to the new framework, but due to extra restrictions imposed by WebExtensions, some existing add-ons are simply unable to do what they once did.
| ...For those still using Firefox 56 and earlier who would like to know what they are going to lose when they upgrade to 57, you are able to see what will disappear thanks to the Add-on Compatibility Reporter."
| I use palemoon, which is a fork of Firefox which is a little faster and doesn't have a lot of the stupid interface and other changes of the last several years.Only problem is that a lot of addons aren't compatible
| >>406484 >>406458
>firefox makes his addons not compatible with his new versions
>let's make a fork where addons will also be not compatible
| >>406431
I know where you're coming from, fellow g/u/rl, but you need to let go. I stuck with Waterfox but Quantum is way faster, most of the addons were ported to WebExt already, and it even looks kind of like pre-Australis firefox.
| How about Waterfox, isn't it supposed to have legacy support for extensions and shit?
| >>406484
I used to think palememe was ok until they totally thew away their "your browser, your way" philosophy and blocked AdNauseum using a blocklist that was supposed to be only used for malware.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=16504#p120327
| >>406586
I don't care how much more memory leak and obligatory crashing I have to endure, it's about PRINCIPLES here!
| I love Firefox but tolerate Chrome
| What firefox addons are people in this thread using that break with Quantum?
| >>406999
DownThemAll is still not working with WE's and no news for almost a year. The current WE version of panorama is garbage and seems like it's been abandoned. Download status bar has been neutered and lost a ton of functionality. Firefox menu button lost features as well. I used to run a couple other add-ons as well but they were for small specific UI changes and not worth mentioning in specifics.
| >>406628 yeah, I followed the meme and installed palemoon, and then one update broke some of my stuff. I was too lazy to switch, but when I bought a new PC, there was no way I am going back to palemoon. I ended up with firefox and doesn't really notice any difference.
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| Every time I've used chrome it's chugged along slowly on the computers, even computers with 16 gigs of RAM and 4 GHz processors.
Firefox is also pretty damn slow on Startup, but while it's going it doesn't seem to bog down anything else like Chrome does.