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you are a tiny minority and a specialized browser fork is a great solution for your use case in this situation.

• kelnos 9y ago
  I think that's a great point: it's difficult, near impossible, to make any particular piece of software contain 100% of the features that 100% of people want. Especially in the case of a tiny-minority feature, a specialized version that caters to your needs sometimes makes the most sense. I just worry that people using some of these alternative browsers are opening themselves up to security issues since those code bases are less well-tested for security problems, and often they don't have the developer resources to implement things like process isolation and sandboxing.
  • aorth 9y ago
    > I just worry that people using some of these alternative browsers are opening themselves up to security issues since those code bases are less well-tested for security problems Absolutely. The web browser is one of the most notorious attack vectors on computers these days. I find it hilarious that a vocal minority of power users is protesting this _massively impressive_ Firefox release just because they lost Tree Style Tabs or some extensions for downloading videos. Switching to a legacy fork like Waterfox or Firefox 52 ESR is not an enlightened move!
    • stesch 9y ago
      We lost NoScript!