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  • Re: Waterfox on Windows and Firefox on Android

    From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to David on Sun Jul 17 13:38:40 2022
    David wrote:

    Waterfox Classic 2022.05 (64 bit) on Windows 7 (yeah, I know) seems to be getting less functional by the day.
    Websites which used to work are refusing to one by one.

    Why would you expect it to be any other way?

    On Android I mainly use Firefox.
    I have a method of working which is (when browsing for example a news
    site) to open an article in a new tab, so I can return to the original
    place in the original site when closing the article, even if the main site has changed.
    This used to work fine in Firefox but recently the new tab stays blank for
    an inordinate length of time.
    When I go back to it (possibly several hours later) it has finally loaded.
    I am switching over to Opera, which does not have this problem.

    Recently firefox on android has an odd concept of deciding for you whether you're returning to a recent tab which it should re-open for you, or off all your tabs are "a bit old" and it'll semi-hide them, and start you with a nw blank tab ... needless to say it always guesses wrong what I intended to do.

    [As I recall I moved to Waterfox when Firefox ditched support for most
    useful extensions. This may now have been overcome, in which case I could switch back.

    firefox on android only allows a small fraction of add-ons from a curated list, this list seems to grow at a glacial pace, I believe if you install the nightly version, you can take your chances and install add-ons even if they're not on the list

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  • From David@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 17 12:21:22 2022
    Is it just me?

    Waterfox Classic 2022.05 (64 bit) on Windows 7 (yeah, I know) seems to be getting less functional by the day.
    Websites which used to work are refusing to one by one.
    I am now switching to Edge to run some of the more useful ones.
    I have two screens and like to keep the browsers in them from different
    sources to avoid cross contamination from website logins and the like.

    Is it the Classic version, or is Waterfox declining?
    Or should I abandon Waterfox and go back to Firefox?

    On Android I mainly use Firefox.
    I have a method of working which is (when browsing for example a news
    site) to open an article in a new tab, so I can return to the original
    place in the original site when closing the article, even if the main site
    has changed.
    This used to work fine in Firefox but recently the new tab stays blank for
    an inordinate length of time.
    When I go back to it (possibly several hours later) it has finally loaded.
    I am switching over to Opera, which does not have this problem.

    Is it just Firefox on Android, or is this a major symptom of Firefox going strange?

    [As I recall I moved to Waterfox when Firefox ditched support for most
    useful extensions. This may now have been overcome, in which case I could switch back.
    Then again, Edge might be a decent browser.]

    Cheers



    Dave R



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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to David on Sun Jul 17 13:41:09 2022
    On 17 Jul 2022 at 13:21:22 BST, "David" <[email protected]> wrote:


    [As I recall I moved to Waterfox when Firefox ditched support for most
    useful extensions. This may now have been overcome, in which case I could switch back.

    It has; took about a year but every important-to-me extension finally
    got ported to the new plugins architecture. I got back on normal Firefox
    a year or so ago after a similar diversion to the Long Term Support
    Firefox.

    Then again, Edge might be a decent browser.]

    Eh. It's just another Chrome now but with less compatibility.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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