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A while back I spent a few weeks figuring out how to configure Firefox to work exactly how I want a browser to work, then months happily using it. Then a big up
by heurist 5y ago
A while back I spent a few weeks figuring out how to configure Firefox to work exactly how I want a browser to work, then months happily using it. Then a big update was released and everything broke. I never bothered to get it working again. And despite claims of performance improvements that came with the release, it still chugged slower than Chrome. I would love to use a browser that I can actually configure how I want without things breaking every week, even if it's slower in general. But if I can't configure reliably and it's slower -- what's the point?
- chasil 5y agoFrom this perspective, the RPM from one of RedHat's derivatives would be the ideal answer - a long term support release. As far as I know, such lengthy support terms do not exist for any Windows releases. Firefox on RedHat 8 will stay as it is until 2029.
- Melatonic 5y agoActually there is a fairly secret long term version of windows 10 that also does without all the bullshit. No store, no constant massive feature updates, etc. Windows 10 LTSB / LTSC. They try to make it seem like its only for embedded machines but its basically just stripped down windows 10 with a lot more similarities (feature wise) to what windows 7 was.
- kasabali 5y agoThis claim is totally fiction. RedHat has no magic Mozilla sauce, they simply ship Firefox ESR and upgrade it every year. You'll have the same breakage in the end, just yearly instead of monthly.
- chasil 5y agoYes, because "big updates" regularly trash Firefox in Red Hat. This happens all the time. What a fiction indeed.
- kasabali 5y agoThey trash just as much as the ESR release you'd download from mozilla.org would. In other words, you don't need to switch to RHEL to use Firefox ESR. It's the same version you can install on any other distro or Windows.