I have it installed (as a portable version) and briefly looked into it. As expected, most pre-57 extensions were disabled and for the moment there is a possiblity to a post-57 upgrade for just a few of them (AdBlock Plus is one of them).
But thats not the point. Since 57 and its changes were announced, many extension providers had either given up completely or stated (more or less explicitly) that the differences between pre- and post-57 are so immense that they can't provide at least part of the functionality of their extensions. One example for this was (about a year ago) a developer who stated that there would be no "master password" in 57 and beyond. Well... I've checked this with 57 (I never care about betas) and the master password is still alive and well. But actually the developer could have meant something different - the whole web extension environment is surely something very different, so it may well be that the extension can't use the master password to de-/crypt something locally within the profile environment. This kind of problems may arise for a lot of extensions and only time will show if developers will dive thru all of the hassles for their extensions.
There is a lot communication needed between users of a working stable post-57-version and developers - betas can't show a developer what a large userbase is experiencing. So it will at least take another year or so before anybody can say if extensions will be as firefox-eco as before.
Because versions after 51 had caused a lot of other problems for me (freezing for up to a minute...) and I use very old and outdated machinery, I stepped back to 46 portable for everyday use and will stick to this for some time.
46% of e-commerce shoppers abandon the checkout process during the payment phase, signaling frustration with the complexity and redundancy of re-entering form data or tracking down payment information
Ah, it was "frustration with the complexity and redundancy"! I didn't know that up to now. What I learned this spring when I tried to book a vacancy in GB was that all of a sudden (after many years booking abroad) there was a need to confirm the booking with an additional securing step. But that step needed a running "app" on a smartphone. Well, certainly I have a smartphone, so I installed this app crap or at least I tried. The installation failed because the phone was rooted - which was technically true, but at will and it was not even some arcane version of whatever installed but simply the original version of the smartphone vendor without any garbage.
I think I'm not the only one who didn't have an "app" to approve an online booking and thus had to break the booking.
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I have it installed (as a portable version) and briefly looked into it. As expected, most pre-57 extensions were disabled and for the moment there is a possiblity to a post-57 upgrade for just a few of them (AdBlock Plus is one of them).
But thats not the point. Since 57 and its changes were announced, many extension providers had either given up completely or stated (more or less explicitly) that the differences between pre- and post-57 are so immense that they can't provide at least part of the functionality of their extensions. One example for this was (about a year ago) a developer who stated that there would be no "master password" in 57 and beyond. Well... I've checked this with 57 (I never care about betas) and the master password is still alive and well. But actually the developer could have meant something different - the whole web extension environment is surely something very different, so it may well be that the extension can't use the master password to de-/crypt something locally within the profile environment. This kind of problems may arise for a lot of extensions and only time will show if developers will dive thru all of the hassles for their extensions.
There is a lot communication needed between users of a working stable post-57-version and developers - betas can't show a developer what a large userbase is experiencing. So it will at least take another year or so before anybody can say if extensions will be as firefox-eco as before.
Because versions after 51 had caused a lot of other problems for me (freezing for up to a minute...) and I use very old and outdated machinery, I stepped back to 46 portable for everyday use and will stick to this for some time.
46% of e-commerce shoppers abandon the checkout process during the payment phase, signaling frustration with the complexity and redundancy of re-entering form data or tracking down payment information
Ah, it was "frustration with the complexity and redundancy"! I didn't know that up to now. What I learned this spring when I tried to book a vacancy in GB was that all of a sudden (after many years booking abroad) there was a need to confirm the booking with an additional securing step. But that step needed a running "app" on a smartphone. Well, certainly I have a smartphone, so I installed this app crap or at least I tried. The installation failed because the phone was rooted - which was technically true, but at will and it was not even some arcane version of whatever installed but simply the original version of the smartphone vendor without any garbage.
I think I'm not the only one who didn't have an "app" to approve an online booking and thus had to break the booking.