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Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility
snydeq writes "Mozilla's 'endless parade' of Firefox updates adds no visible benefit to users but breaks common functions, as numerous add-ons, including the popular open source TinyMCE editor, continually suffer compatibility issues, thanks to Firefox's newly adopted auto-update cycle, writes InfoWorld's Galen Gruman. 'Firefox is a Web browser, and by its very nature the Web is a heterogeneous, uncontrolled collection of resources. Expecting every website that uses TinyMCE to update it whenever an incremental rev comes out is silly and unrealistic, and certainly not just because Mozilla decided compatibility in its parade of new Firefox releases was everyone else's problem. The Web must handle such variablility — especially the browsers used to access it.'"
I hate this rapid-release fad. The downsides far outweigh the upsides for me.
Solution: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
The ESR version sometimes rants about libertarian issues when I'm trying to browse the web. Is there a Bruce Perens version?
Of course, you don't have to worry about having any features then, either.
Great gobs of gooseshit, you're telling me that Firefox is the only browser that contains features? My god man, I had no idea. Tell me, is it also the only software program in general to support "features"? Don't keep this knowledge to yourself, the world needs to know! Wake up, sheeple!
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
IE 6 forever!
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
What are you people running Pent 2s? RAM is dirt dirt cheap. If you have less that 2gb you are doing it wrong.
But if you use the RMS version instead of the ESR, you show yourself as Truly Committed to the cause . . .
hawk