Firefox Fights Back - Firefox 57

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Josey Wales said:

You can use a Persona Theme, I do and it looks much better.

Thanks....will give that a try. Which one.....I can't seem to find one called Persona.

mingle said:

For me FF's main attraction was the plug-ins. Many of my most used (and most useful) have now been blown out of the water by FF 57.

For the past few years most of the development decisions made have succeeded in doing nothing but alienate people and drive away many long-time users - it makes you wonder what the heck they're thinking. But they're reaping that which they sew, it's a shame really.

I dislike Chrome, but it looks like I'll be heading that direction soon.

Mike.

It looks as though you, and at least one other person on this thread, who posted not long after you did, are confusing Plugins and Extensions, two things that are quite different. If you go into the Firefox Add-ons manager, you will see an entry for extensions, and another for plugins.

Most browsers, Fx included, have reduced the number of plugins, or even removed all of them, due to their being, as I understand this, very subject to providing pathways for the introduction of viruses, etc. You can find about this subject by an on-line search; I won't go into this, as it is far removed from my areas of expertise.

It is certainly correct that most Fx extensions have been removed; again, there were valid reasons for this, mainly (again, to my limited knowledge) because Fx was based on programming that was very old and could not be used to bring Fx up to today's browser standards. There are already a limited number of extensions which have been ported to the new WebExtensions standard, a number are in the process (such as my news reader, Brief,) and there weill be new extensions to replace at least some of the features lost by the changed basis on which Fx is now based.

Change is inevitable, often painful; sic transit gloria mundi.

Yes, my mistake: "Extensions" rather than "Plugins"...

Change for change's sake, however, is just plain silly. Ever since Mozilla's aim switched to "beating Chrome" by "Imitating Chrome" they have lost many, many long term users.

Users are the life-blood of any project and to alienate so many is nothing more then madness.

Mike.

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