R.Wieser wrote:
Donald,
Windows XP with Firefox 48.0.2 in which most secure
Web sites will still work.
Any reason for that, and not an earlier/later version ?
FYI, I have v52 installed (on XP), and *really* don't like it that it tries
to phone home every time I start it - nor the ammount of (sometimes
guess)work involved to disable other phone home stuff. So, I would not
mind using an earlier version which does not have as many "you must want to
have this" (which I don't) features.
They have added more and more junk in over time (though at least,
unlike Chrome, you can disable it in about
:config _if_ you can
find the setting to change), however even my old FF V. 2 install
(on Linux, my w98 install is offline-only (albeit on the same PC
that I'm posting this from, using Linux)) tries to phone home.
The funny thing is that mozilla.org also now requires an encryption
protocol that it doesn't support, so it ends up triggering an
error window to pop up. I have managed to disable that fully in
about
:config now, though I thought I'd already done so before the
error messages started telling me otherwise.
On a more modern Linux distro (on a more modern PC) I'm running
the latest FF 52 ESR (52.9). They're going to stop supporting
V. 52 ESR on the 5th of Sep., so then I'll move up to V. 60(?)
which uses a whole new engine and apparantly changes the interface
and add-ons system. Time will tell whether the pros counter the
cons with all that, and both have been reported widely by now.
At a guess though, I'd be worried about whether it will work on
XP due to the new rendering engine (and how likely it is that
they would have made any effort for XP support when developing
it).
The biggest problem however is that there seems to be *absolutily zero* in
regard to a feature/comparision sheet, meaning that, most important, I
cannot even check which encryption levels are supported by which version
(and thus have no idea how far back I can go, version wise, without loosing
connectivity).
This has been my valued reference for such matters, already used in
this thread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transp...y#Web_browsers
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