Firefox upgrade, YouTube aaarrrggghhh!

[MrTeroo]

Agreed.
Didn't it originate from Australia?

 

[kevinlightfoot]

The "So" thing or the Firefox thing?

 

[MrTeroo]

So

 

[HappyHacker]

I had auto updates disabled on a windows system. One day Microsoft decided that i really needed an update and changed it. After a month of various problems the machine died. It would not even boot in safe mode. It took me a week to reinstall everything and get back to where I was.

An Microsoft auto update also messed my daughters PC up.

I have another PC where MS update is taking about 30% of the CPU. I have found that autoupdate is running but apparently failed a couple of years ago and has not worked since but autoupdate tries to run all the time. I have to manually stop the process every time I need to do anything. I know how to fix it, possibly, but have not so far found the time or the original license number.

I am about to give up on Firefox due to the sheer number of updates, have not updated to the latest yet despite the continual prompts.

The problem for an IT manager is that if you have a stable tested system running you do not want autoupdates applied as they stand a high risk of causing problems with your various applications. You need to test every update very thoroughly with all your applications before applying it to all your PCs.

 

[worn thumbs]

I have used Firefox since version 2,in fact I also used Netscape 2 and remain unconvinced by the increasingly common and frequent updates.I may be cynical in these matters and you are free to disagree but I find it strange that the updates seem to cripple the add ons that stand between the user and the information harvesting behemoths.It could just be coincidence that google hands over several hundred million dollars a year to the Mozilla foundation.Since they don't give any of it to me-I don't go out of my way to help them and you would be amazed at how many search engines there are.I dealt with the Firefox issue by uninstalling and then downloading Firefox 52 ESR and the add-ons I find useful.I am aware of Tor but suspect that using it would mean I had a number of eyeballs looking over my shoulder even though the vast bulk of my web use is this and other forums and nothing sinister or anti-social.

 

[HappyHacker]

If you are worried about the data gathering try Ghostery. It blocks the trackers and there are lots of them, this site has only four some must exceed 20.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Two on this page according to Privacy Badger. I just clicked over to The Times on Line - there are twenty seven on that page. :shock:

 

[monkeybiter]

From Wikipedia:

In February 2017, Ghostery was acquired by Cliqz GmbH, a German company owned by Hubert Burda Media and Mozilla that builds browser technologies which emphasize privacy

Hmmmm....