On 09/07/2017 05:26 AM, Danny YUE wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until > today I found its new version really sucks. > > Then I read the comment from author who declared that the old version > can *only* be used before (roughly) end of 2017 before Firefox 57 and in > new version some features must perish. > > Afterwards I found that it seems Firefox 57 will use a new ecosystem for > extensions and be more strict for plugin developers. > > So Firefox gurus, what do you think about it? > > > Danny > <user-hat> I switched to Pale Moon a while ago, though I suspect fewer and fewer mainstream sites will work with it as devs will begin requiring features enabled in newer Firefox and Chrome (e.g. WebRTC, EME, localStorage, etc). GitHub has already dropped support for Pale Moon, despite PM supporting just about everything GitHub makes use of.
Losing XUL may be great from a security standpoint, but the feature-set is lacking, it negatively impacts performance (no cache sharing, blockers can't block correctly without a full render prior) and it all reeks of a code merge. Why else would Mozilla be putting all this work into looking *and* acting like Chrome? This behavior is that of a company that is looking to get out of the market. They've already abandoned their phone OS and their e-mail/calendar client. Firefox is just the final nail in the coffin. Servo isn't up to snuff yet, and the power users that gave Firefox its popularity are (like me) disinterested in what passes for "modern Web". Many websites are flat-out malicious, and more are insecure in general, largely due to feature creep in the browser. Without the ability to protect yourself, it becomes a risky decision to continue browsing a space filled with surveillance and malware. In short, it's a dumpster fire. Like all grim scenarios, however, there are sites out there that don't abuse people. But that number is dwindling every day. Aside from that, the hard requirement on PulseAudio is another strike against it, and their culture wrt diversity is off-putting. Mozilla isn't the Web leader it once was. To its credit, I don't think any organization is "leading" the Web well. With the W3C approving DRM as a standard in HTTP, it indicates a corporate acquisition of the standards body, and it's no longer fit for purpose. We need a browser that is opinionated and sticks to the standards that make sense, and hands control of media to other programs. That would severely simplify the browser, and leverage software that's generally already on a computer. Web browsers as they are are fine for netbooks, which have little in the way of system software. But for desktop machines, at least, most things can be handed to a media player, PDF viewer, etc. The code's already there: there are handlers for different protocols like irc:, mailto:, torrent:, etc. Adding handlers via MIME-type would be fine. As it is, I already don't read much on the Web. The experience has become crap, even with blocking extensions. More trouble than it's worth, most of the time. I have better things to do than endlessly tweak my privacy just so sites don't slurp up all the metadata they can on my connection. uBO, Privacy Badger, uMatrix, and others are great -- huge jumps in quality compared to their predecessors -- but the rampant misuse of the medium leaves me disinterested in the Web. So few websites these days are designed with graceful degradation in mind, let alone accessibility. It's all ECMAscript bells and whistles, web "apps", etc. to the point where you have two systems: your Gentoo system and your Web browser. I try to reduce complexity where possible, balanced against safety. That leads me to an upstream who won't screw with my interface and disrupt the add-on ecosystem because "this is better for you". Based on what I've read so far, Moonchild is up front about any breakage, and warns about unsupported compilers or settings. One of our regulars (Walter Dnes) helps maintain PM for us, too, so that's even better. :) But to be fair, I'll try it out when 57 is released so I have a stronger opinion. I suspect I will be let down. </user-hat> -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer, Trustee, Treasurer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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