Listening to the Voices in My Head

I have been using Cyberfox in place of Firefox for years. I wanted to check to see if there was an update, only to keep getting errors trying to get the the website.

With a bit of Google research, I found out that the programmer of Cyberfox, due to illness, has suspended all work, indefinitely (maybe forever, maybe not). Understandable, and I wish him a speedy recovery.

I don't like what Firefox has turned into, it's become an Echo of Chrome. And if I wanted Chrome as as my primary browser I'd use Chrome. After FF's huge overhaul, 90% of my tried and trusted addons/extensions no longer worked. And there was no longer a way to use Nightly Testers Tools to make them compatible, so really Mozilla, why do you even bother to have than neutered version of Nightly Testers Tools as an addon?

Chrome is ok, but this crapola with Flash ... really? I had disabled updates to prevent the issue with flash, but Google forced an update regardless. I want to customize my Browser, not have the browser customize itself.

I have managed to download the latest and last version of Cyberfox (52.9.1) and am currently backing up my profiles on both Win 7 and Win 10, just in case of a screw up. (ie extensions suddenly no longer working sort of screw up)

I got an email from the makers of XMarks. It was the best way to backup and sync bookmarks. They will be discontinuing their service on the 1st of May. I paid for this service and now they're pulling up stakes and will just be doing LastPass. But I already have an excellent secure password saving/generating program.

I guess I will just have to go back to backing up/exporting bookmarks once a month as an HTML file.

Bets on whether or not I get a refund for my purchase as I did pay for the program.

When your browser works, all addons functioning properly... do NOT update the browser if you aren't having any issues.

The "OH NOES! SECURITY PROBLEMS!" Bullshit, that is what some of the security addons are for. Having the latest version of Firefox disable what it deems is 'not compatible' is bullshit, too, because with the installation of another addon, you can load them up. Even worse is when the updated addon doesn’t work but the older one does!

Gawd, I am so thankful that I made a full back up of the addons I had, because if I hadn't I wouldn't have been able to reinstall them after rolling back one version.

Forgot about my Cyberfox custom search engines, and the scrapbooked webpages. I had to do a bit of searching to find where they were stored so I could import/copy them into FireFox.

It took longer to type this out, than it did to locate the files/folders and get them copied over.

Sorry Cyberfox, but until the programmers fix the problems you're having, I'm back to using Firefox.

I was forced to upgrade to newer version of Firefox. I haven't had any security issues, nor was it working improperly, but because certain websites have changed their coding, and Firefox doesn't quite function correctly (example: pulldown menus not pulling down)

Of course, the latest version GUI/Look is a gagger, so I had to fix that. (If I wanted to use something that looked like Chrome, I would use Chrome, thankyouverymuch). Then worked on the addons (Thank you Nightly Tester for making that somewhat easier) and then customizations.

(looks at Firefox) Well, close enough for government business.