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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 proc
by gcp 10y ago
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.
- rackforms 10y agoProgress at what cost? Does maintaining security have to also mean breaking the systems that pay my bills?
- gcp 10y agoI do not think you want to be paying your bills on a browser that's been compromised, no.
- rackforms 10y agoIt's a dev box that only touches local resources.
- Manishearth 10y agoThis is what Firefox ESR is for IIRC.
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- rackforms 10y agoIn 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-firefox?as=u&utm_source=inproduct 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.