Re: OT: FireFox: Here We Go Again . . . .

["Paul Breeze" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC)]

Jordan

Pale Moon is still going strong:

http://www.palemoon.org/

I don't use it regularly at the moment but have the portable version on
my XP virtual machine.


Paul

On 09/06/2016 15:47, J R FOX wrote:
I still want to look around to find out if there remain any
surviving, generally compatible forks or alternates, besides this one.


  Jordan



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  *From:* Kari Eveli 
  *To:* xywrite@xxxxxxxx
  *Sent:* Thursday, June 9, 2016 1:15 AM
  *Subject:* Re: OT: FireFox: Here We Go Again . . . .

  Jordan,

  You might want to consider Firefox ESR:
  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

  This extended support release does not follow the speedy cycle of
  consumer releases. You will have more time to adjust to anything
  that is
  in the works.

  Best regards,

  Kari Eveli
  LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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  8.6.2016, 23:02, J R FOX kirjoitti:
   > I just got the notification that it wants to upgrade to ver. 47 .
  . .
   > but I'm running the portable version 4601, and they tend to lag a
  bit
   > behind. The portable version 47 was not available, as of this
   > morning. It wasn't entirely clear to me from this article whether
   > crossing the latest Rubicon occurs at ver. 47 or 48. But I've gotten
   > really tired of this game, and the browser is plenty good enough and
   > secure enough for me just as it is, with all the functionality
  that I
   > like, for at least the near term. The changes look like deal
  breakers
   > -- again -- as I happen to rely upon several of these extensions.
   > Last time, it was still possible to finesse the things that they
   > broke. But there are only so many hoops I'm willing to jump
  through
   > for this. Time to find that "Cancel the Nag" setting, in
   > 'About:Config'. Beyond that, it will quite possibly again be time to
   > research what alternate Mozilla forks -- such as Pale Moon -- may
   > still be maintained.
   >
   >
   >  Jordan