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Mozilla Firefox 83 boosts JavaScript performance

18 pointsby aledthemathguyover 4 years ago

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corticover 4 years ago
They make all sorts of good advancements; But its also becoming harder and harder to make a good browser out of Firefox.<p>I&#x27;ve been using FF since Netscape, and it used to be a few settings and we&#x27;re off. Now, you have to edit policies.json to get updates stopped, autoconfig.js and firefox.cfg to disable telemetry, legacyUserProfileCustomizations to use userChrome.css to get anything like a proper menu system.<p>&#x27;Lockwise&#x27; has dumbed down the login system so much you can&#x27;t even change field names, making many sites incompatible. Nor can you import logins from file or even point to installations to import. The add-ons system is like traveling back in time ten years, bugs in everything, and fewer alternatives than ever, still can&#x27;t figure out how to stop Tree Style Tabs from stealing mouse focus onmouseover like a widget.<p>For the first time in 16 years I&#x27;m seriously trying alternatives.