Time for a firefox-56 port?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 20:36:09 -0600, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2017 8:15 PM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't address the addon issue.  I expect that gradually the
>> addons will get updated to the new interfaces, so this is just a
>> temporary thing.

It would help if you would quote my text correctly.

> Oh, no, these addons are permanently dead,

Only when the firefox-56 sources are gone.  That's the point of my
original message.  For the time being I can just reinstall the cached
firefox-56 package, but it would be nice to have a label to hang on
it.

> and your best hope is to find alternatives, such as those made for
> Chrome.

I have found no corresponding alternatives for Chrome.

> The addons have been given 2 years to switch, and if that haven't
> happen, that's unlikely to happen starting from today.

The actual death of the plugins is a strong incentive to (finally) do
something about it.

> So give it up, try Pale Moon.

Does Pale Moon address my issues, specifically something to match
firemacs and It's all text!?  There's nothing that suggests it does.
I'm certainly no friend of firefox, but at least I have in the past
been able to bend it to be almost bearable.  I haven't managed that
with Chrome, and I have seen nothing to suggest that Pale Moon does
any better.

Greg
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