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>Immediately stop using 56, downgrade to the LTS or upgrade to 57

58 is the fixed version.

>I get the feeling a fair few HN readers don't keep their browsers up to date for whatever reason.

That's because 57 was a complete dumpster fire. It broke all the add ons. Little wonder people would not update. I was a happy FF user for years. My solution was to dump FF and move on, but I know there are still a lot of people clinging to 56/52 like debris from a shipwreck. Anyone who points this out is granted invisibility powers on HN, so I can see how you would be unaware of this.

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> 58 is the fixed version.

FTA: This issue did not affect Firefox for Android or Firefox 52 ESR.

> That's because 57 was a complete dumpster fire.

I disagree.

> It broke all the add ons.

Yes, it did. They probably should've made 56 an ESR.

> Anyone who points this out is granted invisibility powers on HN, so I can see how you would be unaware of this.

They must not be doing a very good job, since I've seen the death of long-loved addons mentioned in every Firefox thread on HN for years.

It broke add-ons that weren't being maintained, primarily. It's true that for some users, this would be very unpleasant, but I have five extensions working fine here in 59.0b5 (including important security/usability ones like uBlock Origin and Stylus).

That's not my experience. The addons I use that it broke were all being maintained, but FF57 didn't provide any API to replace what they were using before, so their authors reluctantly abandoned them or provided limited, crippled versions that don't work properly.

Clinging to 52 ESR until August 28 is fine. That's what it's there for.

Clinging to 56 is ... well, it's your decision to use what software you want, that's what free software is all about, but since half the point of the changes in 57 was improved security architecture, clinging to 56 and expecting fixes for security bugs seems ill-advised.

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