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The best versions of Opera and Firefox probably came out in 2009 at the latest
Well, at least I'm not the only one who thinks so.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-suckfest.html
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Starting with Firefox 4, when Mozilla realized that being Chrome-like is more important than giving users what they want, it continues to this day. The once beautiful and fun browser is becoming more and more a clone of the Google product

Opera started down the same path already a few years back, and obviously took it to extremes by literally taking the Chromium code instead of wasting time removing features.

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The second item on the menu is the so-called Australis interface. I'm not going to link to any articles about it, search for yourself and read all about oligophrenia at its finest. Anyhow, the most obvious change is that tabs are now rounded. Hmm. Can you think of any other browser that offers rounded tabs? Yes. It's called Google Chrome. How original.

And somehow they've managed to make it look even worse than Chrome.

Re: The best versions of Opera and Firefox probably came out in 2009 at the latest

Reply #25
Why I use an old version of Firefox? It's compatible with some custom toolbar(s), and does seem fairly customisable in terms of layout: at least I'm highly familiar with the stuff.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
:) :up:

 

Re: The best versions of Opera and Firefox probably came out in 2009 at the latest

Reply #26
Artificial intelligence is getting out of hand.

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model
Anthropic said the LLM detected a use-after-free bug in the browser's JavaScript after "just" 20 minutes of exploration, which was then validated by a human researcher in a virtualized environment to rule out the possibility of a false positive.

"By the end of this effort, we had scanned nearly 6,000 C++ files and submitted a total of 112 unique reports, including the high- and moderate-severity vulnerabilities mentioned above," the company said. "Most issues have been fixed in Firefox 148, with the remainder to be fixed in upcoming releases."

The AI upstart said it also fed its Claude model access to the entire list of vulnerabilities submitted to Mozilla and tasked the AI tool with developing a practical exploit for them.

In other news: Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT