serious question. i know how to chattr but wonder what is the easiest way to stop worrying the next worse decision from moz. probably some AI shit. I just want to stick with my old moz trash because there has not been a single update in 5 years that made anything better - i always lose functions. this applies to ff (slower, dumber, bloated) and thundeturd (have a plugin you like? WE WILL KILL IT!).
so how to keep a state of software from when it was OK and not follow up on ANYTHING the greedy corpo puts out? I am sure moz will keep releasing horrible updates even when they reached less that 0.05% market share just because they can and are sick people.
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Fork it, Learn to build it, Forget it.
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Blame Firefox when a security exploit passes through
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To echo others here. Why the F would you do that? I’ve been running the nightly build of FF for years and have never had any issues. I am on windows for what that matters but still.
you gave the joke away to easily…
if you never had “problems” with FF you might acutally be using Chrome because every sane person was shocked when WEAVE was killed, noscript wasnt avail for months and FF mobil has a “select list of plugins” so Google pays their shit CEO more money. But then I read you use windows and I am sure not even the best browser can make surfing on Windows a breeze. Go have some unwantted desktop bloat and pop ups with your EDGE ads.
You can set your package manager to not update it. In Debian you would run
apt-mark hold package_nameto stop a package from updating. In Arch, you would add the package to theIgnorePkglist in/etc/pacman.conf.I would not recommend doing that, especially with a web browser. That will leave you vulnerable to any security issues that come up.
well is that true? so if i distupgrade ff will not be altered? doubt it.
and can you name ANY real life case where FF was really subjected to an exploit? which hacker is wasting resources to target less than 1% of all users? nah, i am sure it is safer to not update FF than anything else. would be a waste to create payloads for ff111 or sth…
Thank you for providing the technical answer here, as well as the warning.
Don’t forget to not get K-9 Mail updates also when it’s brought in to the fold.
i am not sure… from what I understand moz has reached a point of no return. tb development has been halted to have more time to fuck up firefox, build AIs (loooooool) and pamper the CEO. I wouldnt call k9 dead yet.
Lemmy seems to be overrun with too many entitled opensource users.
there has not been a single update in 5 years that made anything better
Have you tried coding and submitting a feature that makes it better?
yawn.
so I daaaaaare to critisize your king? well, wake up call: firefox is dead. not because of the code. but because of the people. check the marketshare.
on your removed shit question: yes i did. actually I have one mozilla plugin for shitty thunderturd and i had but deleted the ff plugin…again: because of the shit people at moz. go grab your multimilliondollar cheque moz ceo!
funny sidestory: when i was poiting out moz and the ppl behind it are shit 10 years ago…there were more downvotes…and I told the removed that the number of downvotes will be lower and lower because of the lower and lower userbase.
so take your 5 upvotes for jerking off the echochamber.
A: Find the back of your computer. Locate and remove the ethernet cable.
This solution is hardware based (so nothing Mozella does to try and pay its staff will have any effect). Completely open source, so you and others can easily observe how it functions and potentially implement improvements. 100% effective at achieving your stated goal (provided you don’t have WiFi). And lastly: Has the added benefit of protecting you from any security risks introduced by running a 5 year old web browser.
This is the perfect answer. Complete, free, open source and secure!
You do not want to stop getting security updates.
well first of all i do not want quality downgrades like that shitty search-in-url-bar
also i never wanted to stop using weave. but hey…moz decisions…worst marketshare EVER.
You can turn off search-in-url-bar.
i can unbloat windows. (i mean i hope…not even sure about that anymore.) but why would I use a product that doesnt underdstand me as a user? moz is doomed because of the murican culture of getting bigger,better,more stocks, more CEO money… the echochamber around moz is no different to a bunch of apple fanboys - no way to reason with them anymore. what I think is safe to say is: if it is american it will fuck up rather sooner than later.
