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Mozilla 51 32 bits2/25/2023 ![]() TB is still the best client out there bar none. 2021 is going to be a great year for TB and Mozilla in general. I can personally attest to the HUGE amount of improvement I've seen in the latest betas I've been playing with. 78 has had a lot of growing pains and AddOn authors are still playing catch up. I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release. ![]() This year's culling of workforce at Mozilla made me worried too. A few years ago when Mozilla anounced TB was no longer going to be developed and put on life support, it was a tragic bit of news. It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB. Sadly, TB 78 ESR is still stuck on LLVM 9.0.1 and Rust 1.43. ![]() The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. ![]()
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