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I don't know about cursing any engineers, but I'm running a 3.something version for Firefox because I have a set of plug-ins that work, and have failed to work
by jamesbritt 14y ago
I don't know about cursing any engineers, but I'm running a 3.something version for Firefox because I have a set of plug-ins that work, and have failed to work in later versions, and I get to do what I want in a way that I'm happy with.
If there's some overwhelming reason it would be in my own best interest to stop using 3.x I'm certainly interested to hear about it.
The number of sites that appear to take advantage of more current FF features is, for me, minuscule, and I can visit the site in Chrome or something if needed.
- mkmcdonald 14y agoYou've been misled into thinking that you need features X, Y and Z. Web pages can be functional without flashy new features. Your browser is your choice, and we as developers need to respect that.
- jamesbritt 14y agoWell, to be fair, some new things are pretty cool. I'd love to have both the latest cool stuff and be able to run every add-on I've ever liked since Mozilla 1.0. I know that's just not going to happen, so I made a choice. I'll do without certain things in order to keep other things. I'm just occasionally concerned that I'm overlooking some serious downside (e.g. FF 3.x can be made to set my Linux machine on fire or whatever). Mostly the only thing I notice is that WebGL demos don't work. Not really a big deal for me. I can run those on Chrome or something.