pedz,

But then you use Debian and what’s preinstalled is Firefox ESR, so you have to install Firefox anyway.

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

What is wrong with Firefox “extended support release” ESR ?

pedz, (edited )

I get better performance from the release version than from ESR. The ESR version in Debian has always been slower than the release version for me. Especially on YouTube.

EDIT: For those that doubt: reddit.com/…/how_to_make_firefox_esr_work_with_yo…

lemann,

Not op, but nothing significant IMO unless you’re a web developer (in which case it’s worth considering using the dev edition instead) or just want the latest features.

The ESR on Debian gets updated reasonably frequently with backported security patches and bug fixes

Pantherina,

Not all security issues get CVEs. Thats only the security parts. Its old as balls, and Firefox never had any breaking bugs for me, thats the “old as balls” part

saltesc,

Actually like the Chromium Edge; way better than Chrome. But Firefox.

nexussapphire,

Someone should make a distro that is just all the annoying stuff in windows.

LemmyIsFantastic,

Edge, especially for work, is fantastic.

meekah,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

Eh. Something makes DevOps sites load slowly when opening from outlook. Like, opening a handful of links takes a minute or so

LemmyIsFantastic,

Devops sites? What does that even mean lol?

I’ve never once had links take any sort of noticeable time to open outside of the scanner link/redirect. Which doesn’t have to do with edge or outlook. You probably are conflating two issues.

meekah, (edited )
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

Azure DevOps. Another Microsoft product.

No other browser does this, and it only happens when opening the link from outlook. Which does make sense to me because edge has some kind of outlook integration. Probably our incompetent network admin and weird ass network and AD situation does not help, but it’s still a bunch of microsoft products that don’t work properly together.

LemmyIsFantastic,

I’m still convinced you are just noticing the redirect/link checker built into m365/ azure AD.

meekah,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

I was not aware that’s a thing. So you’re saying every link I get on outlook has a redirect link stuck in front of it because of azure AD? But why does that not cause chrome or firefox to load the pages slowly?

LemmyIsFantastic,

In some configurations outlook will replace links with something like this (domain is incorrect, but here’s the gist) outlookvirusscanner.outlook.com?scanredirect=theoriginalink.com

So yes, that WILL slow you down, but there is a valid reason for it. If that’s the reason I have no idea why the others wouldn’t be slow. It might just be a I use x at home vs y at work type deal?

meekah,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

Nope, tried around with different browsers at home and at work precisely because of the issue I mentioned.

SpaceNoodle,

Meanwhile I have to install links manually

Johnmannesca,
@Johnmannesca@lemmy.world avatar

Just install scoop and install packages in the terminal if you’re bothering with Windows

HiddenLayer5, (edited )
@HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah but sometimes it’s the ESR version which is super slow to get feature updates. Though I suppose that’s fair for distros intended for server or other enterprise applications.

hglman,

My work stuff wont work in firefox, yeah that’s a new fun enterprise thing. In any case I use edge on osx for those few sites, firefox for everything else.

You999,

Will it work if you change the user agent to chrome or edge?

x4740N,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

Hijacking your comment to say if people are having issues on firefox with YouTube being unresponsive change your user agent to a chrome one

hglman,

Maybe, but it’s my job and that’s the kind of stuff that gets you in trouble.

ilinamorato,

Report the sites to webcompat!

Might not do anything, but on the other hand it might!

MNByChoice,

Why are you guys doing default installs? Setup you preseeds and get what you want.

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