serious question. i know how to chattr but wonder what is the easiest way to stop worrying the next worse decision from moz. probably some AI shit. I just want to stick with my old moz trash because there has not been a single update in 5 years that made anything better - i always lose functions. this applies to ff (slower, dumber, bloated) and thundeturd (have a plugin you like? WE WILL KILL IT!).
so how to keep a state of software from when it was OK and not follow up on ANYTHING the greedy corpo puts out? I am sure moz will keep releasing horrible updates even when they reached less that 0.05% market share just because they can and are sick people.
A: Find the back of your computer. Locate and remove the ethernet cable.
This solution is hardware based (so nothing Mozella does to try and pay its staff will have any effect). Completely open source, so you and others can easily observe how it functions and potentially implement improvements. 100% effective at achieving your stated goal (provided you don’t have WiFi). And lastly: Has the added benefit of protecting you from any security risks introduced by running a 5 year old web browser.
This is the perfect answer. Complete, free, open source and secure!
You do not want to stop getting security updates.
You can set your package manager to not update it. In Debian you would run
apt-mark hold package_name
to stop a package from updating. In Arch, you would add the package to theIgnorePkg
list in/etc/pacman.conf
.I would not recommend doing that, especially with a web browser. That will leave you vulnerable to any security issues that come up.
Thank you for providing the technical answer here, as well as the warning.
To echo others here. Why the F would you do that? I’ve been running the nightly build of FF for years and have never had any issues. I am on windows for what that matters but still.
Lemmy seems to be overrun with too many entitled opensource users.
there has not been a single update in 5 years that made anything better
Have you tried coding and submitting a feature that makes it better?
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Fork it, Learn to build it, Forget it.
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Blame Firefox when a security exploit passes through
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Don’t forget to not get K-9 Mail updates also when it’s brought in to the fold.