![]() Or consider switching to Pale Moon, which I understand will continue to support XUL add-ons and continue to patch security vulnerabilities. You may need to keep a legacy version of Firefox installed in a virtual machine afterwards so you can browse with your add-ons while not risking your main installation of Windows in case of a security breach. ![]() You'll have until then to decide what to do next. ESR point releases correspond with normal Firefox major releases, so ESR 52.5.0 ~ FF57, ESR 52.6.0 ~ FF58, ESR 52.7.0 ~ FF59, and 52.8.0 ~ FF60.I can't post URLs here so just Google Firefox ESR FAQ for more information.After that FF59 will become the baseline for the new ESR, so you will lose support for legacy add-ons at that point. You may want to consider starting a fresh profile with ESR 52 if that isn't too much work.) FWIW, Mozilla SeaMonkey uses 52 ESR as its baseline so that it can continue to support XUL add-ons. (EDIT: I forgot to mention that you should back up your profile before downgrading, as there could be issues. So if you want security updates to go with legacy add-on compatibility, then downgrade to 52 ESR. In reply to jdmorris:Yes, 52 ESR will continue to receive security updates until its EOL, currently scheduled to end with 52.8.0. You can download Firefox 57 from the Firefox website. And it looks like they’ve finally got a web browser with the performance, efficiency, looks, and text rendering acumen to back up the feels, too. Say what you will about Firefox, or Mozilla, but their heart is in the right place. In the meantime, do yourself a favor and give it a shot too. Interesting enough that I’ll be testing the browser this week to see if switching makes any sense. And for all of what’s right about Chrome, it just isn’t the same.īut looking at Firefox 57, I can see the same kind of text rendering quality that I see in Edge. If you think about the many times I’ve discussed Microsoft Edge, the one thing I’ve always really liked is the way it renders text and graphics. Which is, of course, very nice.īut the reason I’m recommending that you at least look at Firefox 57 is the text rendering. There’s also a slick new user experience, called Photon, that offers what I’d call a Microsoft Edge-like look and feel on Windows 10. It starts with better performance and memory usage, two things that Chrome has struggled with for years on Windows. But with the fall of Microsoft’s web browser efforts, and the rise of Chrome, I’ve long since moved to the Google browser.īut Firefox 57- also called Firefox Quantum-makes a compelling case for rethinking this stance. I’ve always had a soft spot for Firefox, and I was a backer of the original version (my name is on the 2004 New York Times advertisement for it), after using Phoenix and its other predecessors before that.
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