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I have previously in several HN comments been vocal and adamant about leaving the Mozilla shipwreck before it foundered on the shoals of 57. And I may have bee

I have previously in several HN comments been vocal and adamant about leaving the Mozilla shipwreck before it foundered on the shoals of 57. And I may have been wrong. At long last there is meaningful information on addons.mozilla.org about what actually works now, and what doesn't. Looking nowhere near as bleak as it all sounded just a few months ago. I can have my uMatrix, I can have something Flagfoxish, I can open tabs by rightclicking links, I can have meaningful search from context menu. I can have something which doesn't look like Chrome. I may actually give the thing a chance.

jlgaddis 9y ago
I've been wanting to go back to Firefox as my "daily browser" for quite a while but performance was always the thing that made me switch back to Chrome everytime I tried FF. I'm sitting on the deck with my iPad at the moment but when I go back in I'm gonna install one of these newer FF versions (probably nightly) on my primary workstation (Arch Linux) and give it a fair chance. That box has 16c/32t so I should see a huge improvement over the currently installed FF 55. Hopefully it will be good enough to keep me on FF for good (extensions are my big concern, although I only use a few).