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by mkmcdonald 5070 days ago
You've been misled into thinking that you need features X, Y and Z. Web pages can be functional without flashy new features.

Your browser is your choice, and we as developers need to respect that.

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Well, to be fair, some new things are pretty cool. I'd love to have both the latest cool stuff and be able to run every add-on I've ever liked since Mozilla 1.0.

I know that's just not going to happen, so I made a choice. I'll do without certain things in order to keep other things.

I'm just occasionally concerned that I'm overlooking some serious downside (e.g. FF 3.x can be made to set my Linux machine on fire or whatever).

Mostly the only thing I notice is that WebGL demos don't work. Not really a big deal for me. I can run those on Chrome or something.