What to do now that Quantum is rubbish and older versions are security risks?
I've used firefox for as long as I can remember, but am really disappointed with the new Quantum browser. It's slow, it's awkward, it crashes a lot. It's nothing like firefox! It auto updated on three of my pc's, one with windows 7, one with 8.1 and one with 10, and the issues are the same on all of them. Also, I've spent the night repairing some old PC's/laptops, and have installed all three operating systems above, from scratch, including Quantum, and the same issues appear. The problem now is that I've installed an older version of firefox on all PC's/laptops that I own, but I've had to turn auto updates off. This now becomes a security issue. So the dilemma is upgrade to a poor version of FF and put up aith a browser that's worse then I.E. or keep the olde version that will never be maintained? I've noticed that I'm not the only one who doesn't like Quantum, is there any chance that FF might just maintain their good working version and drop this inferior Quantum? The only other choice would be to finally stop using Firefox, but I'm sure it wasn't their intention to lose users? I see all over the place these days, bringing out latest version of things that are worse, why fix it if it aint broken? Advice please.
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No, if you had come for Volunteer Support earlier we could have saved you a lot of time. There was a issue in 57.0 for too much Ram Usage/Crashing, their is a work around and it has been fixed in 57.0.1 and 57.0.2 released yesterday fixes issues also. There is also a fix still if taking too much resources that takes 1 min to do.
fyi: Turning off updates may or may not stop them from updating to 57.
You have more questions about why than any issues you had and they were explained above.
So will provide you the information you are asking for. Outside URL's so is not biased : https://www.howtogeek.com/332449/whats-new-in-firefox-quantum/ . https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/another-tor-browser-feature-makes-it-into-firefox-first-party-isolation/ . https://www.howtogeek.com/334111/firefox-quantum-isnt-just-copying-chrome/ . https://www.howtogeek.com/333230/why-firefox-had-to-kill-your-favorite-extension/ . https://www.howtogeek.com/334594/stop-complaining-that-your-browser-uses-lots-of-ram-its-a-good-thing/ . https://www.ghacks.net/2017/11/13/firefox-57-release-overview/
If you return to 57+ These may prove useful : https://www.howtogeek.com/333805/how-to-change-or-customize-firefoxs-new-tab-page/ and https://www.howtogeek.com/333110/how-to-customize-firefox-quantum-and-remove-the-white-space-around-the-title-bar/ . https://www.howtogeek.com/334716/how-to-customize-firefoxs-user-interface-with-userchrome.css/ . https://www.userchrome.org/ and https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html and https://github.com/axydavid/FirefoxUI/blob/master/README.md . https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis There is a Firefox Reddit page for this, Github and others, not all info is in one place yet as people collect/make code and share it.
Further : https://mozilla.github.io/extension-finder/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/
Think that should do a lot of talking, be informative and inspire.
When you return to 57+ please do turn on Send Info to Mozilla within Firefox before posting as this will provide Volunteers with information on version, Video Card & Drivers to see if there are issues in them.
Also please ask instead of just doing. We could have accomplished a lot in a little time.
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