[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

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It only does the common image types like jpg, tiff, bmp, png and gif.

Thanks. I grabbed it to take a look.

It's a pity the developer didn't put the source into the public domain when he abandoned it, but the same could be said of many abandoned programs.

I'd settle for it being released as unsupported freeware. I don't see source availability as meaningful - how many folks could do anything with the source if they had it? (And I have some old stuff here written in languages no one has heard of these days. Even if you had the source, you don't have a compiler to build an executable from it.)

There should be a law - either put your abandoned s/w into the public domain, or pay a 1% forfeit of company profit for ten years - per product. That might even stop the big players buying up innovative products so that they can kill them.

I would not hold my breath waiting for that law to be passed.

Over time more and more sites don't like my old Firefox with XUL-extensions browser. I've tried a couple of forks, Pale Moon, Waterfox etc - but they crash even more. When Firefox 54 becomes unusable I'll probably switch to Edge, its performance is much better than Chrome. I use Falkon as my bare bones local only browser.

I haven't run across sites that don't work in Firefox ESR, but it's been a while since I've looked.

I looked at things like Pale Moon, but don't see them as viable long term prospects. Gecko is huge and enormously complex. I follow various bugs in Bugzilla, and half the fun is figuring out where the reported bug is in the code, and then identifying the developers who understand that part of the code well enough to make a fix.

I just don't think the developers of Pale Moon have the resources to be able to maintain Gecko and XUL, and still stay compliant with constantly changing web standards.

I'm actually impressed by Edge. It invokes nearly instantly, appears to support current web standards, and doesn't seem to be riddled with the security holes that plagued IE. It even supports an extension capability, but there isn't a lot out there for it I might use.

(An attraction to Mozilla anointing Web Extensions as the API for extensions is that the API is pretty much the same as that used by Chrome and Edge - pure JavaScript - and it's possible to create extensions that will install and work in all three browsers with minor code changes.)

And since I play in the Linux sandbox, I need a browser that operates in both places. Firefox does, and with a little fiddling I can get it to use the same profile on both OSes.
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Dennis