11 Nov
2011
11 Nov
'11
10:26 a.m.
Hi Alain,
I am using Firefox 8 (64-bit) downloaded directly from the Mozilla site.
I just decompressed it to a local directory and created some links. In
fact, it was still Firefox 3.x when I first did it, if I recall it
correctly. It updates itself in a semi-automatic way in a few seconds
just by going to Help -> About. I had a few issues with addons at the
beginning, but from version 6 or so everything works painlessly. I use
very few addons though (Adblock and a few dictionaries). I am using
Debian Squeeze 64-bit with backports but I guess that should be
relatively irrelevant for this kind of installation.
As a second option, I would recommend Iron
(http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php) which is
essentially Google Chrome stripped down from all the spy-ware, enhanced
and recompiled.
Kind regards,
Miro
On 11/11/11 11:10, Alain Knaff wrote:
Hello all,
Like many other people, I'm starting to become fed up with Firefox:
- crazy versioning scheme, which regularly breaks add-ons (such as HTML
Validator)
- bugs unfixed since almost 10 years
- gratuitous and frivolous GUI changes
(This is especially painful on a distribution such as Fedora, which
seems to follow every Firefox version. On Kubuntu 10.04 it is bearable,
as it sticks with 3.6)
Of course, there's other browsers such as Opera, Midori or ... gasp ...
Chrome.
However, as one of the main reasons for my discontent is the breakage of
addons, and as those other browsers don't have addons at all (or are
incompatible with the many Firefox addons), switching to one of those
wouldn't solve the problem...
So, here's my question: does anybody know of a fork of Firefox/Mozilla
from around the 3.x period which kept with sane version numbers while
still fixing bugs? Or an entire different browser, but that can use
Firefox add-ons?
I know, there is seamonkey, but apparently it branched off in the 2.x
days, which is a tad *too* old for me.
Thanks for any ideas,
Alain
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