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Only five, I run twenty-nine.
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I have 40.
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Some were first installed in 2009 when I switched to Win7, the rest I'd installed earlier when I was on XP. I had problems with a few extensions when I switched to Win 7, so I found alternatives such a Omni Sidebar. The only ones I have newly installed since 2009 are Open in Chrome, Open in Edge and Space Next. As I wrote before I accept any updates, but not automatically, only when it suits me.
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The current stuff auto-updates and I don't have a problem with that. I don't recall
ever having an issue when an extension updated. The issues all came from underlying architectural changes in Firefox that broke extensions because what they relied on either was no longer there or had moved to a new location the extension wasn't looking at.
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Why do you think Mozilla will force you to move to a new version?
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She set up Firefox ESR. The major version that's based on
does change. It just doesn't do so often. When Firefox 60 hits the street, it will be the new ESR base. Unless Blossom takes pains to keep it from updating, she'll be back where she just was.
A larger and longer term problem is continual changes in web standards. What happens when the older browser you run to continue using favorite extensions of the like starts having problems on sites because they use newer stuff the rendering engine in your browser can't handle?
At some point, you'll have to upgrade, like it or not. Sitting still is
not a viable long term option.
I chose to take the pain and upgrade now, keeping a legacy installation available to run preferred stuff while I waited for new stuff to become available. Enough has that I was able to switch. If I'd sat tight till I was forced to upgrade, it would have been a far more complex and painful process.
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Dennis