In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

here is my probable future browser after ESR expires, it is using a firefox code base so addons work with it. The dev is commited to the older UI.

http://www.palemoon.org/layout-differences.shtml

Palemoon is good, better than firefox, i used the 64bit version for a while.
Talking of which, why are most browsers still 32bit?

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

why are most browsers still 32bit?

There's probably not a lot to be gained in performance by going to 64-bit. Also, not all extensions are available with 64-bit versions.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

here is my probable future browser after ESR expires, it is using a firefox code base so addons work with it. The dev is commited to the older UI.

http://www.palemoon.org/layout-differences.shtml

Palemoon is good, better than firefox, i used the 64bit version for a while.
Talking of which, why are most browsers still 32bit?

catering to the weakest.

firefox were sort of half going to do a 64bit windows and then replaced it with metro version instead, apparently they are incapable of making all 3.

IE64bit runs way better than IE32bit.

In addition 32bit browsers have less security on a windows system.

Oh dear! Looks like Mozilla are going ahead with their "sponsored tiles" idea...

Any more info or a link?

Edit: Sorry, now found details.

Edited by cheshire_man (Mon 12-May-14 17:36:05)

Its not possible, as far I know, to get the links from Windows 8 News app...

Just Google Firefox sponsored tiles and you'll get plenty of hits.

I've changed about:config setting browser:newtab:url to about:blank to avoid the current new tab page. Whether that, or something similar, would work with a new version of Firefox is a different matter completely.

Try Tab Mix Plus and configure the url for a new tab. For example, I use my home page (an html file on my PC that contains a table of ca. 50 links).

In reply to a post by JPL:

Try Tab Mix Plus...

Brilliant add-on. Has loads of features that Firefox should already provide. I'm using it already. Thanks very much.

tab mix plus is absolutely essential for me, without it tabbed browsing is a very bad experience.