WTF are Mozilla doing to Firefox??

Analoguesat

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Ever since Mozilla put FF on a 6 week update cycle the performance has been getting worse & worse. Its a major resource hog these days and really bogs down my ageing Dell desktop even with just a couple of tabs open. (Win 7)

So whats the best FF based alternative out there? Ive used PaleMoon on my Mint powered laptop but I regularly get mesages saying "your browser is out of date - do you want to update it?"

No I effin well dont want to update it again thank you very much!
 
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My vote goes to Vivaldi with Ghostery & uBlock
An Opera based browser - Vivaldi (web browser) - Wikipedia

I use it on OSX, Mint, Win 7 & 10. The Mint version is running fine on an ageing Macbook that's too old for OSX updates
 
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No problems here (so far) with FF on w8.1 laptops (not of the newest kind) with different processors, memory (4 to 8 gb). And will probably stay with FF 'forever' due to using a small collection of very useful add-ons that have become essential.
 

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I had major problems, with all my browsers, until I tracked down the fault to Avast free anti virus, tried AVG, but still not great, so finally I switched to Avira and everything is working perfectly again.
Try disabling your anti virus, for 10 minutes, and see if Firefox starts working again.
 

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Yes, the antivirus can screw up things, as can continuing to work with Win XP, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
 
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