[Sylos]

He's being downvoted because of his choice of wording. It's perfectly legitimate to prefer Firefox prior to Firefox 57. It's not legitimate to:

- act like Mozilla just killed their extensions lightly. They gave lots of warning in advance and took many extra steps to ease the transition. They also had lots of really good reasons for doing it.

- blame Mozilla for marketing things based on what their market looks like. Most users were not affected at all by the extension ecosystem change, but were positively affected by the newfound performance, security and stability. They also would not have done it in the first place, if they did not think it was a necessary and good step. I really don't know what you'd expect them to market it as.

- in general, speak like you're the only user whose interests are worth considering.

[the_grue]

Well, he's upset. After all, when you support a project for years, you convince your friends to switch, participate in the community, maybe write some extensions, and then it removes one of the main reasons you have ever been using it, you get upset. It's understandable... I used to have strong feelings about it as well. You say that Mozilla didn't kill their extensions lightly, etc. But still they didn't think to make 56 a LTS release to allow us a breathing space of at least a year of security updates until we decide what to do next. Going 4 releases back for someone who's used to be on the bleeding edge is quite daunting.