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I did not understand that it was going to replace ff 56 with ff 57. Ok, it is fast, but speed isn't everything. Will look at Palemoon. Happy Thanksgiving.

Time marches on. I predict in a month or too missing extensions will be updated.

there is always firefox-esr if you want to hang back. currently firefox-52 I think,

Got it.

I had to go back to Firefox 56. 57 crashes every time I try to sign in to Amazon. Anybody else get that problem?

MX<3 wrote:I had to go back to Firefox 56. 57 crashes every time I try to sign in to Amazon. Anybody else get that problem?

Nope, try to clear the cookies on that site (in general because this is a big update it might be better to start with an entire new profile).

might be due to track protection, a shield appears on the left most in the url address bar. click on the shield icon and select disable protection.

I agree with dolphin_oracle,

Post by dolphin_oracle » 23 Nov 2017 11:22
Time marches on. I predict in a month or too missing extensions will be updated.
there is always firefox-esr if you want to hang back. currently firefox-52 I think,

I am using the esr 52 now on MX 17. I have the new quantum on work and wife's win 7 systems, where it seems good.
I have always liked the esr approach, ff and chrome started a too fast release cycle. The esr avoids unnecessary UI changes, just security fixes.

I've actually switched to Opera on my smaller machines which, though quirky in its bookmark handling IMO, is fast and clean.

Adrian wrote:

MX<3 wrote:I had to go back to Firefox 56. 57 crashes every time I try to sign in to Amazon. Anybody else get that problem?

Nope, try to clear the cookies on that site (in general because this is a big update it might be better to start with an entire new profile).

might be due to track protection, a shield appears on the left most in the url address bar. click on the shield icon and select disable protection.

I clear Everything, including Cookies, every time I close the Browser. Just a habit.

I don't use any Private sessions or Tracking Protection either. Amazon added a Captcha to the Logins and that's where it crashes I think.

I've actually switched to Opera on my smaller machines which, though quirky in its bookmark handling IMO, is fast and clean.

Yeah, Opera is pretty good. Not as good as it used to be but It's a solid browser.

Unfortunately, it can't use WideVine Decryption Module. (I think that's what it's called) Amazon uses it for their Prime Video streaming. I can't use Opera for it.

I'm sure it'll get fixed soon. Amazon is a big site to loose for Linux users. And 56 works fine, right now. Mozilla provides a link to the Tar/bz of it in their help area. I guess they know Quantum has issues...

I don't use any Private sessions or Tracking Protection either. Amazon added a Captcha to the Logins and that's where it crashes I think.

Maybe that's why it didn't crash for me, I don't see that captcha. I even tried in a private session (that would not have any cookie, right?)

Adrian wrote:

I don't use any Private sessions or Tracking Protection either. Amazon added a Captcha to the Logins and that's where it crashes I think.

Maybe that's why it didn't crash for me, I don't see that captcha. I even tried in a private session (that would not have any cookie, right?)

I have never seen a captcha for Amazon.

Adrian wrote:

I don't use any Private sessions or Tracking Protection either. Amazon added a Captcha to the Logins and that's where it crashes I think.

Maybe that's why it didn't crash for me, I don't see that captcha. I even tried in a private session (that would not have any cookie, right?)

They seem to alternate the appearence of it. On Amazon.co.uk at least. One day it'll be Captcha, another day it won't.

So to have the ability to use Amazon on all days, I had to revert. Firefox 56 is no slower than Quantum anyway. At least for me.

Private Sessions use Cookies but wipe them after the browsing session.

FWIW:
I didn't want to wait for the month (or 2, or 6, or however many months) for the extension(s) I use to get updated, so I installed Waterfox. It will accept the extensions I wanted to use (don't know about ALL the extensions that used to work in FF). All I did was download the Linux version, run the unarchiver, then click on the executable in the directory where I unarchived it. It will grab your settings from an existing FF install and off you go. If you have any settings about what to do with downloads and startup tabs and other general settings, you'll have to reset that to what you want. Other than that, it just works (for me, YMMV).

Regards,
Phil (in NC for the winter)

P.S. Installed it in Win10 also, in case you care.

I've never heard of WaterFox. Good name though.