guruhilt.blogg.se

The Extended Support Release of Firefox 52 will continue to run old-style extensions and get security updates through next June. The last regular release of Firefox that will support old-style extensions is Firefox 56, so that doesn't take you very far.

But is the drop-menu less complete than the old horizontal toolbar? Obviously it's an extra step to access a drop-down menu than to click a displayed button on a bar. IMO, Mozilla is looking for parity with Google Chrome, ''(no longer a trail browser with Firefox as it once was, now a copy cat or mimic of what more popular have done - meeting the lower standards of what users want or expect)'' to make it easier for developers to create one extension for most all browsers, with little additional work to adapt it to each specific browser brand So we will need to get used to Firefox not being as extensible as it has been. WebExtensions just aren't as powerful as the traditional Firefox extensions have been. Smacks of the New Coke debacle back in April 1985, which was discontinued in 1992. I plan on waiting until after Firefox 60 comes out before I waste much time trying to config the "new" Firefox to my liking. So I am still using an old ESR 38 version for my "heavy lifting" from before the "signing" thing started my extensions dropping like flies. Overall, as a 15 year user from the days of Phoenix 0.3, I am not happy with what I see and have been seeing for quite awhile now.

It's possible that the new API's may not be complete yet and more features may be added down the road and user requests made in the proper place, with the attitude, might restore some what might be lost or add new stuff later on. IMO, Mozilla is looking for parity with Google Chrome, (no longer a trail browser with Firefox as it once was, now a copy cat or mimic of what more popular have done - meeting the lower standards of what users want or expect) to make it easier for developers to create one extension for most all browsers, with little additional work to adapt it to each specific browser brand Their scheme with the "lifetime" being for a limited time pissed me off - so I stopped using it. I can't comment specifically about Roboform, haven't used it for many years now.