Fwd: Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?

[Freddie Cash]

Forgot to include the list.

Cheers,
Freddie
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From: "Freddie Cash" <fjwcash at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2017 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at freebsd.org>
Cc:

On Nov 25, 2017 6:38 PM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 19:33:18 -0600, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2017 6:31 PM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm sure I'm not the only person who relies on old addons.  How
> >> about a firefox-56 port until the current problems die down?
> >
> > Here is a port for the Palemoon browser:
> >
> >   https://www.freshports.org/www/palemoon/
>
> 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.
>
>
> Pale Moon, Water Fox, and another one I can't remember, are forks of
> Firefox. They try to keep up with the latest features under the hood, but
> keep the old XUL based interface, and the older style of default GUI. They
> support add-ons and plugins, but they may lag a version or two behind in
> features.
>
> Haven't personally used them, but everytime Mozilla makes a hard break
> with something (UI, plugins, and now add-ons), more users migrate over to
> them.
>
> Cheers,
> Freddie
>