Practically nothing was ever secure. Or will ever be, until we get a new computing architecture and OS.
I hated XP. It was always crashing, or developing memory leaks, or going away for seconds at a time. Its only small virtue was that it ran ancient DOS programs.
I'm running 59.0.1, 64 bit. Fox keeps getting better, and faster.
Did FF12 even have tabs? Does it support modern web pages and video standards?
I did have to learn a bit about the userchrome thing, to color my tabs to make them more visible.
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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
lunatic fringe electronics
I usually download the files because things disappear. I actually don't use FF to do this because it gets them in WEBM format which is bigger and spec ific to FF, so I have to convert them to MP4 which I prefer. So I use IE to get them and they come already in MP4 format, it is smaller and pretty muc h universal.
Of course this means I have gigs of files instead of megs of links, but tha t is fine with me. I forgot how many drives I have in the beast downstairs. I got space. Now all I have to do is get it back on the network, running u p and down the stairs with a flashdrive is wearing my knees to the bone.
going away for seconds at a time. Its only small virtue was that it ran ancient DOS programs. "
You had other problems then. Did you upgrade the OS ? Never do that, what came with it is what belongs on it.
Mine still runs like lightning and only reboots when there is a power outage. But then it is running on a system that could easily take Win 7. I'm lucky it has drivers for XP on the disk.
Firefox seems determined to kill the most valuable feature, which is extensions. They keep changing the interface, and authors get tired of wasting their time updating their work, so they quit. The latest versions of FirerFox obsoleted all previous extensions, so they have to be rewritten and you have to keep reinstalling them.
The extensions for FF12 are no longer available. They work well, and I don't have to worry about wasting time having to update them.
As far as I can tell, you need tabs on Win7 since it doesn't put new windows along the task bar. XP does, so tabs are redundant. I use one of my extensions called Tab Killer to kill tabbed browsing.
Modern web pages are mostly eye candy. I turn off javascript to kill most of the junk and speed page loads. Some sites go nuts with CSS, so I turn it off so I can read the page. Some sites pop up a registration window that won't let go until you give them an email address. I simply turn off CSS which kills the window. I use Ad Blocker which is very efective at killing ads. It is not available on later versions of Firefox.
Video on a lot of pages is a waste of time. If it's not on Youtube, I'm not interested.
I have FF47 on Win7. It is slow and sluggish, and I can't find any extensions like the ones I use on XP. So I'm not interested in newer versions of Firefox, or running on Win7 or later. I'm very happy with FF12 on XP. It's fast and very stable.
These days, none of the extensions are available on Mozilla. The only way you could get them is if I send you a copy of my .VDI file. But you would need VirtualBox 4.04 to run it.
Oops - version 4.3.36. I ran 4.04 for years, but then I found 4.3 had a significant advantage. I can clone an existing VDI to make an identical copy, then change it as needed to perform a different function. Great stuff. I pity the people who are stuck on Windows as their only OS.
No tweaking XP is needed. I install it once, remove all the unneeded crap like LAN support, get the fonts set up, and that's it. I haven't touched it in years.
No messing with VMs. Install it once, and never touch it again.
I also run Win7. Compared to XP, it is slow and sluggish. I rarely use it.
With Windows, if you have a major disaster, you have to reinstall. I just copy the VDI from the backup. Takes only seconds, and I get a byte- identical copy of the original. I can even send it to other of my computers, and they get a byte-identical copy.
Well, since Zimmerman was a 'white Hispanic' I guess they'd tag me a 'white Native American' (certainly more so than Fauxcahontas), and I'm not old (but hope to be some day).
More self-importantly, today I'm self-identifying as a polka-dotted llama, and who are you to say different?
Now stop it before I get triggered by your llamaphobic microaggressions.
What are the French people going to do? Every object in their language has a sex. Worse, there is le and la but none of the other 19 sexes assigned to things.
How about 'va' ?
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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement
German is far worse. If Germany has to change to a gender neutral grammar, they might as well bin the entire language because it's absolutely steeped in masculine, feminine and neuter with all sorts of inter-dependencies that would totally cripple it.
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