I will NEVER upgrade my browser again - NEVER

[NavyRet]

So ... I upgraded my Pale Moon browser to the latest version 25.0.2. Assholes screwed up the SSL settings making the minimum a 1 instead of a 0. Took an hour to figure it out and fix it. Then my IDM CC plugin for Internet Download Manager stopped working. The ONLY way I could fix it was to DOWNgrade the damn browser to version 24.7.2. It just will not work in 25.

I will NEVER upgrade my browser again as long as I breathe, and the developers that push upgrades every other week can just bite me.

 

[Katzenfreund]

The upgrade fiasco is not just confined to browsers but, as far as I am concerned, affects the majority of programs.

I was using Winamp that kept upgrading to ever heavier and slower versions, till I switched to VLC, which is now following the same path, so I stopped upgrading it.

When my Spybot S&D upgraded, it presented me with some incomprehensible new settings options, so I played it safe and went back to the old version.

Old Opera was/is my main browser, but they upgraded it to Chromium engine. If I wanted Chromium, I’d be using Chrome. So I stayed with the old version.

Nero was just fine, but upgraded to an enormous do-it-all monster, so I switched to CDBurnerXP.

Adobe Acrobat/Reader went the same way out the door, in came slim Foxit Reader.

Firefox kept upgrading till most of my plugins stopped working.

Murphy’s Law:
Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmers who must maintain it.

Katzenfreund’s Postulate:
The main objective of software developers is to progressively increase the program’s size and complexity till it becomes unusable.


The list is endless, and is topped by Windows XP being abandoned by MS, but not by me.

 

[kirk1701®]

I switched a while back from IE to firefox, I'm liking what I see so far it's been about 5 months.

Creating a sync account allows you to save the settings to

 

[NavyRet]

Pale Moon is a Firefox spinoff optimized for Windows.

 

[Dr Pickles]

The upgrade fiasco is not just confined to browsers but, as far as I am concerned, affects the majority of programs.

I was using Winamp that kept upgrading to ever heavier and slower versions, till I switched to VLC, which is now following the same path, so I stopped upgrading it.

When my Spybot S&D upgraded, it presented me with some incomprehensible new settings options, so I played it safe and went back to the old version.

Old Opera was/is my main browser, but they upgraded it to Chromium engine. If I wanted Chromium, I’d be using Chrome. So I stayed with the old version.

Nero was just fine, but upgraded to an enormous do-it-all monster, so I switched to CDBurnerXP.

Adobe Acrobat/Reader went the same way out the door, in came slim Foxit Reader.

Firefox kept upgrading till most of my plugins stopped working.

Murphy’s Law:
Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmers who must maintain it.

Katzenfreund’s Postulate:
The main objective of software developers is to progressively increase the program’s size and complexity till it becomes unusable.


The list is endless, and is topped by Windows XP being abandoned by MS, but not by me.

Amen!

 

[sifl]

ff 28 > newer ff iterations

 

[Katzenfreund]

Actually, I'm not using Ff as my main browser, and I hate it whenever I start it and it wants to upgrade to a new version, which invariably happens every time.

I'm using old Opera instead, which apparently has stopped upgrading and is none the worse for it.

And it's interesting to note that over the years, Opera has upgraded far fewer times than Firefox, which proves that there is a way.

 

[Katzenfreund]

Update on Opera.

I thought I'd try the new Opera now that it reached the round version 30. But was prudent enough to previously make a system restore point as well as a registry backup.

Well, I'm proud of my prudence which proves my experience. The new Opera just couldn't compare, either in features – and I mean useful ones I use, not bells & whistles – nor in user interface. So back I went to the old version, as fast as I could reboot. And I needed both my above mentioned precautions to get back to exactly where I was.

Upgrade followed by…““downgrade”, which downgrade is an upgrade on the upgrade, if you see what I mean.

Moral: Before upgrading, make restore point so you can come back fully and safely without system degradation.

 

[Katzenfreund]

I'm still using Opera 12.17 which, though unsupported, still works miles better than the new generation.

As for Firefox, it did the update while I was working on a project without telling me and froze, leaving me stranded. Had to restart all over again.

 

[NavyRet]

You know, you can turn updates off in FF.