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> the people using them generally want the platonic ideal version of semantic versioning minor releases, namely updates that only fix bugs and improve things and never introduce backward compatibility problems or undesired changes

Oh, so very much this! I would pay kilodollars per year for a real LTS version of firefox that will never ever change its UI or randomly break how plugins work, but take security fixes.

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What has changed so much in Firefox that you'd pay $1,000s of dollars per year to avoid it? Sounds like a business opportunity for someone.

What hasn't changed? There are many projects based on not following Mozilla's breaking changes https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork...

> I would pay kilodollars per year for a real LTS version of firefox that will never ever change its UI or randomly break how plugins work, but take security fixes.

Is this what Firefox ESR is supposed to be? I don't use it, does it change UI and plugin stuff with minor updates?

I guess, ESR misses the “ever” part in the parent comment. Once you update from Firefox 78 ESR to, say, Firefox 91 ESR, you get all the newest UI changes and all.

There is a certain demand for “the boring UI”. Using as much of the native controls as possible in the browser UI, not moving things, not inventing new behaviour, and so on.

So seamonkey? (But better maintained)

> firefox that will never ever change its UI

You should probably promote /customizable/ UI.

It would be basic common sense, but given that I have seen Firefox versions use directly unbelievably insane UI, sheer lunacies - such as psychedelic progress bars in FF for Android -, good sense is what faults.

tabkitv2 replacement any1?

(vertical tabs with colorized grouping)

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