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Problem is no other browsers has anything close to the ecosystem of Firefox. Chrome extensions seems (with a few exceptions) to be just locally stored web site
by reitanqild 11y ago
Problem is no other browsers has anything close to the ecosystem of Firefox.
Chrome extensions seems (with a few exceptions) to be just locally stored web sites.
A better alternative to Firefox might be Palemoon which is just an older version of Firefox with security patches. I am not in a position to judge if it is safe enough for anyone to use but I like it.
- yuhong 11y agoDoes it have "Slaughterhouse" (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929539 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929539 and http://bholley.net/blog/2016/the-right-fix.html http://bholley.net/blog/2016/the-right-fix.html) ? This is not the only incident where Mozilla people have suggested hiding bugs until an old ESR goes end of life BTW.
- ygjb 11y agoPalemoon is not a viable alternative; Firefox and Mozilla, with all of their resources have failed to ship a fix for the most security relevant feature in the browser - a sandbox (it's coming, finally). Palemoon has eschewed the advanced necessary to get the Firefox codebase into condition to support a sandbox. Beyond that, unless something has changed, Palemoon doesn't have anything that resembles a security program, other than taking up security bugs from Mozilla that are likely increasingly less relevant as the code bases diverge.