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On 2018-03-31 08:18, Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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> As usual, there is the balance |
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> "convenience" (old plugins) <-> "security". |
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> In the beginning (say, until firefox-52 is no longer supported |
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> upstream), there is a certain choice. But after that staying on the |
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> "convenience" side is not sane anymore. |
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There are probably few people more familiar with this tradeoff than |
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myself :P. But the browser case is a bit different, because the |
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"convenience" features (in my case, at least) themselves have to do with |
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security. Using the latest official Mozilla browser means trusting |
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their built-in defenses are as good as my current plugin based ones. |
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And I have doubts about that. |
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This is a tangent from the thread topic, but there is another |
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inconvenience of modern FF that keeps me from re-adopting it: font |
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rendering. You will pry my beautiful thin DejaVu Sans from my dead |
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body, and give my dead body blurry webfonts in return. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists |
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which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. |
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