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>Be me, several months ago
>Quantum gets forced upon everybody, all my addons I spent years fine-tuning are deleted and destroyed in a heartbeat
>Uninstall FF
>Find last version before Quantum due to Downthemall being an incredibly useful extension, installed it and removed everything that dealt with updates
>Even now I still get periodic reminders that it's critically out of date
>After a couple months the browser begins to a crash at an ever-increasing rate
>No rhyme or reason, sometimes it just blows up after idling on the same page for a few minutes
The only conclusion I can draw is that Mozilla programs FF to crash itself once it realizes it's no longer the newest version as a scare tactic to get people to move on to the next one. I refuse to believe it's anything that I'm doing, given that most of the time it crashes for seemingly no reason. Anyone have a similar experience or can confirm whether my suspicions are indeed the case?
▶ No.906815>>906817
>>906814 (OP)
>Find last version before Quantum
I assume it's not LTS, because you didn't mention it but said "last".
Well at this point you deserve anything that happens to you.
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▶ No.906819>>906820 >>906830 >>906838
>>906817
But how long until a Quantum version displaces 52.x as the new ESR? Isn't this going to happen in only a few months or so? What then?
▶ No.906820>>906830 >>906868 >>906930 >>906964 >>908486
>>906819
This sort of thing has happened time after time again. People were bitching about 4.0 and swore they'd stay on 3.6 forever. Fast forward a few years, same thing only with Australis vs 27.x. It will be no different this time, in a year or two from now when 52.x ESR is too far behind to render many websites properly and has outdated certs and other security features, everybody will be happily using Quantum and not even looking back.
▶ No.906830>>906836 >>908588
>>906819
Can you fucking search the web anymore?
>>906820
To be honest I don't see why anyone would even need Downthemall. Build-in downloading works fine, and in an unlikely event that you need more, just use fucking wget or curl.
▶ No.906836
>>906830
I thought down-the-mall was some shopping extension.
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▶ No.906868>>906930
>>906820
Show me a website that is rendered improperly by old firefox versions.
▶ No.906881
Been crashing on esr randomly on my thinkpad. Wasn't doing that until this month.
▶ No.906928
>>906814 (OP)
try cyberfox, see if that does the trick
▶ No.906930>>906979
>>906820
This fucking maymay again.
>>906868
Can't post on 8ch.net from 3.6 for some reason, whenever I try it asks what program I want to open "post.php" with.
▶ No.906948
>>906814 (OP)
just use quantitative already, be a clearly good goy
▶ No.906959
Just use Firefox ESR 52. It will be supported until August 21st and then the ESR 60 will be released.
▶ No.906964
>>906820
yeah it's not like people left ff and went to some other browser. lmfao
▶ No.906977
>>906814 (OP)
I've never had a problem with FF crashing, but I've been using 52 ESR so that might have something to do with it. I did have a problem where FF would use like 6GB of memory for no good reason, I could have it running for only a few hours with like three tabs open and it still would take up a shit ton of memory. Turns out I had to disable "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" in about:config and now it uses less than a gigabyte on average. Apparently it's multiprocessor support to make the browser run faster (and mozilla claims you'll only incur 20% mem usage with it enabled), but it runs just as fast and it's not eating up all my ram so idk what the fuck that's about.
tl;dr: Firefox is garbage
▶ No.906979>>908881
>>906930
That's weird. Could that be from a malformed php file rather than the browser however?
▶ No.907001>>907002
>>906814 (OP)
>be browser developer
>make security update
>the update breaks existing addons
>issue an announcement well in advance
>give plenty of time to addon devs to update their addons
>some of them don't give enough shit to do it
>roll out security update
>some addons break
>somehow it's my fault
▶ No.907002>>907058
>>907001
>things that never happened
▶ No.907010>>907014 >>907075 >>908561
I thought everyone here used Chrome?
▶ No.907013
>>906814 (OP)
>not sticking to ESR
Are you fucking retarded? Anyway Chrome is actually worse in this respect.
▶ No.907014>>907015 >>907030
>>907010
Nobody here uses that botnet. You might as well install Windows 10 and split your dick like a banana while you're at it.
▶ No.907015
>>907014
Retarded people can't use chrome
▶ No.907030
>>907014
>being bated this hard over nothing
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▶ No.907058>>907064 >>907099
You can read the source code you fucking retard.
>>907002
They gave more than a year's fucking notice. Google gave no notice when it broke default cancellation behavior of scroll and click events. How much notice do you need? Disabling old extensions wasn't some big secret that was dumped on you without warning. There were even months where it warned that the old extensions were going to eventually stop working inside the addon menu itself.
▶ No.907064>>907101 >>908482
>>907058
>dude just read and interpret over a million LOC it's so easy
▶ No.907075>>907112 >>908561
>>907010
>I thought everyone here used Chrome?
Chrome is a Trojan horse that installs itself as a third party software via another one. Only people with 0 computer knowledge uses it.
That's the only reason why it's so massively used (besides smartphones because it's already there per default).
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▶ No.907112>>907512
>>907075
seriously though, last year I installed windows 7 because I really wanted to play a gayme and at some point I downloaded powerISO for reasons I can not remember, I knew fuck all about wangblows software at that point but I remembered hearing about powerISO before so I thought it was sound. 5 minutes later after installing it I opened up chromium to realize that I never installed chromium.
▶ No.907150
>>906814 (OP)
red[ill normies on how much it sucks.
▶ No.907512
>>907112
Stop installing non-free software.
▶ No.907572
>>906814 (OP)
>Quantum
literally who?
▶ No.908441>>908444
>>906814 (OP)
So after all your complaining and trouble with Firefox you haven't decided maybe you should try another browser?
▶ No.908443>>908445
>>906814 (OP)
>using reddit-them-all instead of wget and curl
You deserve what you have, normalfag. Now, go back to 4gag.
▶ No.908444>>908965
>>908441
And you decided to bump his shit thread. I wonder why.
▶ No.908445
>>908443
>reddit-them-all
keeeeeek
▶ No.908482
>>907064
Who said anything about easy?
▶ No.908486>>908488
>>906820
This is different since they changed engine all plugins stopped working
A lot of people only use firefox because of the plugins.
▶ No.908488>>908490 >>908496 >>908566
>>908486
Too bad 52.x ESR goes EOL in less than four months from now. What then?
>inb4 "muh T60 XP SP3 FF 52 ESR final stand forever"
▶ No.908490>>908491
>>908488
>muh T60 XP SP3 FF 52 ESR
Has the ultimate end of the line for these type of systems finally arrives?
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▶ No.908548>>908618
>>908496
>remedy for staying behind with FF 52 is going back to a FF 24 based browser
▶ No.908556
>>906814 (OP)
Apple's shit OSs do the same thing. Fucking insufferable faggots. Good thing they get AIDS from eating feces.
▶ No.908561
>>907010
Newfags might actually believe you so I have to say no, Chrome is a digital kike trojan as >>907075 said.
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>>906830
or use uGet, there's an extension to integrate it with the client so it grabs your stuff.
▶ No.908606>>909026
>>908566
But ESR 60 is Quantum.
▶ No.908618
>>908548
>I don't like where pozilla is going
>OH MY GOD I HAVE TO HAVE TEH LATEST POZILLA SHIT
the Stockholm Syndrome is strong in this one
▶ No.908881
>>906979
No, that could be from the captcha pop-up, though.
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>>908606
Is that a bad thing?