I was starting to test the updates in the 2nd link, when I noticed that my tweak to make the new tab page display my home page (which is a local HTML file) isn't working anymore as of Firefox 62, because of this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455601 "Since the release of Firefox 57, we are seeing AutoConfig being used by bad actors. Because of that, we are going to be sandboxing AutoConfig to only its original API in Rapid Release version 62. We are not sandboxing on the ESR."
As this comment mentions, that means a lot of tweaks are no longer possible, unless there's some other workaround (but if there is, it probably won't be allowed for long either): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455601#c11
I had started thinking that if this status bar tweak works, I might consider using FF as my main browser again. But now I'm exasperated. I finally find a way to get one thing that used to work, working again, but in its place another thing is taken away. I'd have to stay on the ESR channel, just to have my new tab page work like I want it to. Or maybe the Developer version; I'm not clear if that one has the restriction or not. This is ridiculous.
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Mozilla/Firefox did it again
Date: 2018-09-16 08:11 am (UTC)From:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455601
"Since the release of Firefox 57, we are seeing AutoConfig being used by bad actors. Because of that, we are going to be sandboxing AutoConfig to only its original API in Rapid Release version 62. We are not sandboxing on the ESR."
As this comment mentions, that means a lot of tweaks are no longer possible, unless there's some other workaround (but if there is, it probably won't be allowed for long either):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455601#c11
I had started thinking that if this status bar tweak works, I might consider using FF as my main browser again. But now I'm exasperated. I finally find a way to get one thing that used to work, working again, but in its place another thing is taken away. I'd have to stay on the ESR channel, just to have my new tab page work like I want it to. Or maybe the Developer version; I'm not clear if that one has the restriction or not. This is ridiculous.