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TL;DR: All should use Firefox Quantum! After this post[0] published, Mozilla released Firefox 57.0 and it discussed on HN[1]. Here is one comment[0] from this
by app4soft 8y ago
TL;DR: All should use Firefox Quantum!
After this post[0] published, Mozilla released Firefox 57.0 and it discussed on HN[1]. Here is one comment[0] from this discussion[2]:
> Unfortunately, this would have meant no Firefox Quantum.
> As a Firefox dev (I'm still working at Mozilla, although not much on Firefox atm), I have seen many, many occurrences in which I couldn't optimize codepaths, or even in some case fix bugs, because the old extension mechanism made it impossible.
> (...)
[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use-waterfox-pale-moon-or-basilisk/ https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694926
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184
- karmakaze 8y agoTL;DR (extended): All should use Firefox Quantum! because the forks get slower security updates, are based on older codebases, and don't offer much that can't easily be configured. If you need NSAPI plugins use Firefox ESR. Similarly for Chromium forks.