[SOLVED] Installing new Firefox 57 Quantum

[dermage1]

Problem solved - Thanks for the responses

[Spearmint2]

Talking of Legacy Add Ons... the update 'killed' noscript ( apparently 10 is coming soon ) and Agent Switcher..... irritating.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... r-revived/

works great in 57

[Spearmint2]

Make sure you check the settings to see if anything should be changed like.....

FF 111617-1.jpg

I used about:config to search out the following terms and fix some things

onboard
telemetry (cute word, now gone, NO TRACKING)
newtabpage (turned off those irritating videos that start playing when opening a tab in background)
newtab (I prefer a blank page, and even though that's easy in preferences to change, I didn't want any of those links downloading in background using bandwidth)
activity-stream
browser.URLbar (I always change things there)
datareporting (I zero a lot of that)
http (so I can nuke all such I don't prefer to be connecting, some of course I leave)

[Mattyboy]

Talking of Legacy Add Ons... the update 'killed' noscript ( apparently 10 is coming soon ) and Agent Switcher..... irritating.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... r-revived/

works great in 57

Thanks, I found it yesterday, they must have updated it. Apparently noscript "by the end of this week"

[Spearmint2]

the new FF57 update [...] looks a bit clunky, when compared to FF56, though.

Hm. Yes and no. Yes, compared to FF56.0 beautified by CTR. No, compared to FF56.0 pure.

Already started pimping its dull black on gray areas a bit, just a tiny little bit.

Pretty good. I redid CNET appearance for when I visit there. There is a new Stylish available that works in 57 now. Colored tabs is also available now for those who like that.
NewCNET_style-page.png

[377Ohms]

NoScript 10 for FF Quantum is now out:

https://noscript.net/getit

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /noscript/

At my post time: NoScript Version 10.1.1 is in my Firefox 57.0 (32-bit) for Mint Cinnamon v17.2.

All I can say is this new Version of NoScript seems next to useless compared with the older version. [But let's be fair now, this is an infant release.]

* Now if I click the NoScript icon NOTHING happens - no drop-down list - nothing. I have ZERO control over which sites are blocked - or not.

* No way to see or clear the notorious Whitelist.

* I go to a site with blocked scripts and a little number appears over the NoScript icon. Who knows what that jumber means? Blocked scripting sites? If yes, then there is a VERY promiscuous default Whitelist in effect because the site I visited I know has LOTS of scrpting, but the pop-up number over the NoScript icon shows just [2].

With all these problems, I disabled NoScript for now but left it installed. At least it should get updates now and I can re-enable it for particularly nasty scripting sites. Progress is good...