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Try Basilisk. It's a less idealistic, more recent fork of Firefox, by the same developer as Pale Moon. It's one of the most featureful forks of Firefox I've found, without being a complete clone. It supports all the DRM technologies required to play proprietary video, it supports NPAPI plugins, it supports both XUL and WebExtension style addons (which was why I made the transition, as I don't agree with the limited-by-design nature of the new WebExtensions standard, but as a practical matter almost all new development will be there, so you need both), it supports sync, it includes the developer tools, it supports Firefox's themes... there's not much it doesn't support, really.
Generally, I've been pretty impressed with it. There's no turning back to Firefox for me.
Firefox 60 introduces Chromium code-base and WebAuthn, both horrible to your privacy. Looking forward to what https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ has to offer (hard-fork from FF52 ESR with security/privacy patches, updated regularly)
You should try using https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ for your flash needs - it's a browser that will support flash forever and does not show that EOL screen if you're using an older version of flash
> Should I block all cookies and white-list my favorite websites?
Yes, and You can use Cookie Controller on Basilisk to do just that.
YES.
This is a quote from the Waterfox 56 release notes:
> Waterfox will now remain at 56 for the time being, following the security releases of 59 ESR until it becomes End of Line (Q1 2019). In the meanwhile, a “new” browser will be developed to follow the ethos of Waterfox of customisation and choice, while staying up to do date with the rapidly evolving browser landscape.
So it will be longer supported than Firefox 52 ESR, definitely.
You may also wish to check out this project if you are into XUL add-ons:
Keep in mind though that this must still be considered Beta-Software, so if you intend to use a stable build stick with Waterfox for the coming months at least.
Regarding my use an old browser approach -
You can install Basilisk (a browser made by the Pale Moon team) - https://www.basilisk-browser.org/download.shtml
And then install the NPAPI Flash Plugin. You will also need to configure the flash whitelist to allow your camera's URL.
See this for installing the Flash Plugin - https://askubuntu.com/a/1335885
Please note that Linux Mint is basically Ubuntu with added LM customizations. So, you can just install Ubuntu packages on it no problem. (In fact, Linux Mint itself uses Ubuntu repos to update core system packages.)
Not sure about the browser you are using, but the latest and greatest chrome or firefox (dont even get me started on Edge, just a chromium clone, doesnt support plugins, no ActiveX, no VBScript so....) will not work
You can use Basilink: https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ PaleMoon MyPal
They are all latest browsers, they are just not mainstream models
Perhaps the SeaMonkey project should consider switching to the Goanna layout & rendering engine that is used in the Basilisk browser?
Basilisk is built upon UXP, their XUL platform which is in development. As such XUL is alive and well in this browser and will not be deprecated. https://www.basilisk-browser.org/
>By the way, what made you go with Waterfox and not PaleMoon? Did you look at other forks? Oh... there is also this
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>https://www.basilisk-browser.org/
Well I just did about a half hour of research before I picked one. Reading overall opinions, judging overall happiness, etc. I chose Waterfox because it seemed closest to the Firefox build that I have come to love. Indeed I had it looking and feeling the way I wanted in about 3 minutes. The installer imported all my Firefox stuff and the browsers seems to load and run a bit faster too.
Bye Chrome and Firefox. I'm switching to Basilisk! They're removing a ton of privacy issues starting with Social API and ending with Telemetry.