• Is Firefox going into a tailspin?

    Just got this note from @jnperlm

    While this was covered back in June: Mozilla execs clash over whether Firefox has a future, I think you might want to reframe it for your followers as it didn’t seem to garner much attention at the time.

    First, Firefox is going to start collecting more data.

    Second, come some time in November 2017, most of Firefox’s extensions will no longer be supported by Firefox. In fact, I’ve lost some already.

    A way of extending availability of extensions is to convert, even now (I have), to Firefox ESR (I got the extensions I “lost” back), but that too will lose extensions some time in 2018.

    I think many of your readers should take another, or a closer, look at this topic.

    It seems to me that ghacks.net will be the go-to web site to see how this unfolds and which alternatives to Firefox seem to be most effective. By going ESR now, one is stable after November 2017, and can monitor how things shake-down with the alternatives before one has to pull the trigger, when ESR is upgraded to the point where the majority of Firefox’s extensions will no longer function.