If are only those two... but also for have a functional search box you need to use the about:config (the new one is useless for me), if you like to see the full URL you need to use the about:config, and the worst, if you like to change the new page behaviour, you need to use a extension.

Really, Mozilla needs to start reconsidering those things.

the new firefox got better performance and better interface... you just need to get used to it. it's a cross-platform interface, easy but good (all the feature are there).

Really, there is nothing wrong about the new Firefox. you can use the url box to search on google if you want... also by default you see "full" url (you just don't see http:// but if you copy the url and you paste it you get http://url), in other browser you don't see full url by default anymore only on firefox.


Ok, we are on gog, so old is always good... but browser need to evolve. and firefox is the only browser that let you do what you really want (other browser don't), so it's the only browser that evolve in the right direction.

safari and edge are good browser but they are not cross-platform.
chrome and opera are really bad.

old browser are broken and really slow (I'm using new and old firefox right now to try... new firefox is faster and better).

Well got some good news, just got notified they will be supporting older browsers (for a while longer at least); Already the chat, forums, and main page look the way they used to and i don't need my cumbersome script to sorta make it work (not to mention much faster than PaleMoon that i was using).

Still it's funny, the original Firefox which was a tiny browser taking a 4Mb download, while v44 is currently at 80Mb.

Why would you not upgrade Firefox? They've done a lot of questionable stuff lately, but the LTS is still before them (for a little while...) and there are the alternate builds, like PaleMoon.

For the same reasons I had listed before.

First and foremost they keep adding crap to the UI, making it more 'stylish' when I could care less if they were textboxes saying back, forward and start, although simple arrows work too; Not any of this circular graphical crap that they do to some video players I see which adds nothing to the functionality.

Second, plugins aren't always updated and are incompatible, so the plugins I enjoy using aren't avaliable anymore, and most of the ones I have I consider must-have.

Third, right now the browsers do the job they were intended to do, and that's display web pages and HTML code. Sites could do with being a little uglier like they used to be (and lightning fast and tiny in download size). Heavy use of JS I've always seen as a scourge to the internet and pages in general. Some JS where needed is fine, but going to some sites where when you move the mouse it sprinkles pixy dust everywhere, or popups for ads and the liks. Ugg... Doesn't help some pages love to block you unless you turn on scripting even if the page uses almost no scripting.

Finally, with the recent PaleMoon (that I did try out) was a lot slower (not sure about memory consumption since I didn't trust visiting anywhere other than GoG without my other plugins). We're talking 4x slower than the version of FF I'm currently relying on. Maybe you don't consider 8-10 seconds to load and render a page too long, but I do. I'd almost prefer instant loading and displaying like lynx had, but Lynx as a text-only browser is a little too limiting and outdated. Still Lynx is a browser I'd consider one of my favorites to this day (200k, lightweight, fast, low memory consumption, secure, etc).

Have you tried Classic Theme Restorer? I know it's weird to use another add-on just to get get back what you already have and I understand your position, but I would earnestly urge you to reconsider switching to newer version because those security fixes are not there for nothing.

If you don't want to change that often there's Firefox ESR, but when it comes to web browsers in particular, users should really make it a habit of updating on a regular basis. It's not a matter of fashion, but security.

As for some of your add-ons not working, that might be a problem that could've been solved in the past by manually editing said extension to its supported FF version number, but since signing was introduced it's not really applicable anymore. Still, that only shows that those disabled add-ons are unsupported, which is certainly not a good thing in the everchanging world of the Web. If you need some alternatives recommendations, feel free to say so.

I understand, and put much effort hacking Firefox via add-ins and prefs to make it resemble a reasonable browser again. But what about https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ so you're actually using a modern browser but without the UI fuck?

you can use about:config to use not-signed extension. also if an extension is not compatible anymore you can check for another extension with the same effect

EDIT: dammit, wrong button