Warning for Firefox users

[Soldier415]

People still use firefox?

 

[rekees4300]

People still use firefox?

Not for long, after the version 57 update in November Firefox will be nothing special, just a Chrome clone.

 

[/pine]

People still use firefox?

smart ones do...

 

[check]

Holy smikes - are we really that screwed, with no privacy to be had anywhere? Even this Tor sounds fishy.

 

[TN8Man]

Holy smikes - are we really that screwed, with no privacy to be had anywhere? Even this Tor sounds fishy.

In general yes, we are screwed. But one can improve security and privacy, the degree depends on which country they live in. Some governments are banning tools that provide improved security and privacy.

 

[oldpilgrim]

I use Waterfox. No issues yet.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Well Firefox 57has arrived I have been updated to 57.0b4 (64-bit) I am on the beta update channel. It appears to run a fraction faster and I will have a problem with what I'm going to do in that saved fraction. These are what I've found so far:
Adblocker plus has gone but there are a couple of other addblockers that are compliant/compatible.
The design of the top 3 lines was done by someone who went to an Industrial or Agriculture college. certainly not a design school. There are a lot of theme addons but they only change the background colour.
Opening a new tab brings up all the recently closed tabs. Apart from 5 regularly opened sites all the rest have gone.

 

[Mendonsy]

I have decided that I am going to stick with version 54 until all of this mess gets sorted out. I plan to look at it again when the full version 58 is released to see if it is acceptable. If not, I will probably have to switch to something else.

 

[/pine]

FWIW...

Earlier this week, Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind Firefox, launched the first beta of Firefox 57. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but version 57 is the most important Firefox release in years. It's the culmination of years of work on many of the moving pieces that the user never sees but that allow the browser to quickly display your Gmail inbox, YouTube video or cat forum. To mark the fact that this is such a major release, Mozilla has dubbed this release "Firefox Quantum."

Many of the updates in Quantum come from Mozilla's experimental Servo browser and engine. Servo was never meant to be released as a standalone project, but was basically the incubation chamber for the future of Firefox. That engine was written in Rust, a programming language Mozilla developed for exactly this kind of use case.

This means that, unlike previous versions, Firefox Quantum can now take full advantage of multiple CPU cores -- especially when it comes to its CSS engine, which plays a major role in how fast a web page renders. Ideally, this also means Firefox now uses far less memory (and often this means it'll actually use less memory than Chrome).

The team also used this release to introduce a new interface. This means that the rounded tabs are gone, for example. The new interface focuses on simplicity and speed. Like previous versions, you can still modify the interface to your heart's desire, but that interface will now also look good on high-DPI screens and work better on laptops with touchscreens.

 

[aczlan]

I have 55 installed and it seems to behave the same as previous versions (ie: adblock plus, disconnect.me and CleanLinks all work as expected).

Aaron Z