Firefox is becoming unusable

charlieoscar

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I prefer having two browsers and I have been using Firefox and Chrome for some time; however, with the newest version of FF I have been experiencing a lot of crashes and also it no longer supports AdBlockPlus and some other add-ons.

So, what is a good browser to replace Firefox under Windows 8.1 that will let me control obnoxious advertising, videos that automatically play and ones that follow you on the page, etc.? Thanks.
 

Marceline

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Use ublock origin for the ad blocking. It's better than ABP and works in both Firefox and Chrome.
 

DJnVa

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Use ublock origin for the ad blocking. It's better than ABP and works in both Firefox and Chrome.
Will it result in a lot of websites saying "You're using ABP--please turn it off to continue."
 

Couperin47

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Pale Moon is what Firefox was and should have become, almost all old FF addons will work or need very slight modifications (they have their own site with the modified versions), have had a native x64 version for years and it's trivial to import bookmarks, settings etc from FF.
 

charlieoscar

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I'll check out Pale Moon. Being able to import bookmarks, etc., is a plus. One reason I use both FF and Chrome is because I have accumulated so many bookmarks. Thanks.
 

Tangled Up In Red

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FF 58 (I don't recall version name) is coming out in November and should be a better (more efficient) browser than Chrome. I've been using Nightly version for weeks and, damn, impressed.
 

Couperin47

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FF 58 (I don't recall version name) is coming out in November and should be a better (more efficient) browser than Chrome. I've been using Nightly version for weeks and, damn, impressed.
If your idea of a 'better' browser is one where the interface is a slavish imitation of the ultra dumbed-down Chrome, that allows absolutely no customization of fucking anything and forces you to always interact the way THEY want, breaks 90% of the useful addons that have existed for it's entire existence, then FF is going to be wonderful. What it is most 'efficient' at is bullying it's users into their way of handling everything.
 

charlieoscar

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I finally found some answers. Beginning with the update to version 56.0.1, all users of 32-bit FireFox who have systems with at least 2GB of RAM will automatically be moved to 64-bit FireFox. However, there are reports from people with supposedly qualifying systems that are experiencing a number of problems. One in particular mentioned using photography processing programs and having many problems.

Around midnight I found Adobe had released updates for their Creative Cloud software (Photoshop and LightRoom) that I use. After I installed them I found that Photoshop would no longer function as it should and I was forced to find a restore point on my Windows machine to get back to the version that worked. One result was that FF 56.0.1 was rolled back to 56.0.0 (32-bit).

I subsequently learned this morning that I need to re-install FireFox with the 32-bit version of 56.0.1 and not just accept the upgrade. Allegedly by doing so, future upgrades will continue to be 32-bit.

And I'm still left with the problem of not being able to get future Adobe upgrades. While I should have far more than enough system (AMD 8-core 3.4 GHz/16 GB RAM/AMD Radeon 2 GB graphics card to handle their programs, I there may be a problem with support for some AMD products.

So, today I will go and take more photographs and get involved with Adobe support tomorrow.