Having switched to Zen Browser, something I miss with Firefox was its stability. I find myself looking up Zen browser bugs and workarounds too much. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I’m downgrading Zen versions due to a bug in the stable version, I never had to do so during my years on Firefox. Devs on Github making an app on their free time have can’t spend as long on QA as a multi-mullion dollar organization.

  • juli@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is the 2nd or 3rd time I’m downgrading Zen versions due to a bug in the stable version

    They haven’t released a stable yet and are clearly labelled as beta releases. Maybe there’s a hint why it’s unstable.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The only time I did was WAY back during the launch of Firefox Quantum. It was a huge back-end change pushed overnight to the main branch, breaking most extensions including one I similar couldn’t live without at the time. I even switched to PaleMoon for a while until everything sorted itself out.

    Been using LibreWolf for almost 2 years now which does a good job at gutting all the parts of Firefox updates I don’t want.

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      2 months ago

      I know it was a long time ago but I would avoid Palemoon like the plague going forward. They don’t seem to care about security and the browser is highly vulnerable.

  • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    How often do you downgrade Firefox versions

    I don’t remember ever downgrading a browser (started out on NCSA Mosaic).

    Having switched to Zen Browser

    Recently tried Zen – I think it’s pretty and shows promise but has a few dealbreakers that preclude my using it as a daily driver. TL;DR: “I slightly prefer the zen UI but not enough to overcome the annoyances. I’ll check back on the project next year if it’s still active.”

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Never, but I recently switched to Zen so idk if I’ll find myself doing that in a few weeks/months too.