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Rust seems like somewhat of a strategical direction for Firefox, not just any old frivolous dependency like mng support, so I think not prioritizing the brevity
by ben0x539 10y ago
Rust seems like somewhat of a strategical direction for Firefox, not just any old frivolous dependency like mng support, so I think not prioritizing the brevity of the dependency list is reasonable here.
Have people traditionally been running their own modified browsers? Seems a bit scary given how you'd have to be on the ball to merge security fixes into your branch regularly.
- gcp 10y agoThere's a few forks that maintain the old UI that are popular, such as Pale Moon. They get security updates because the old ESR branches they're based on still get security patches from Mozilla. Of course, that feed of patches will stop at some point. Don't ask me what the contingency plan for those forks is...
- rebelwebmaster 10y agoIIRC, Pale Moon is based off a fork of ESR24, so they're already on their own for any security fix backports at this point.
- Dylan16807 10y agoI understand the impulse, but you can put the tabs back with a blob of CSS and leave the menus turned on and it's about the same. No need to use a fork for that.