BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days agoIn 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internetarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@hexbear.net
arrow-up1233arrow-down1external-linkIn 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internetarstechnica.comBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@hexbear.net
minus-squareMaestro@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoIt looks like it used modern Firefox and Thunderbird code under the hood, so it should be good on standards!
minus-squareArghblarg@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days agoNeat – I just set it up, got my gmail going in the Mail app and it works. uBlock Origin isn’t officially supported any more as it’s considered ‘legacy browser’, but I found a working XPI here and it even seems to block Youtube ads. Wow. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases/download/firefox-legacy-1.16.4.24/uBlock0_1.16.4.24.firefox-legacy.xpi …though my self-hosted Nextcloud login page doesn’t seem to work with it. If it isn’t a known issue I’ll file a bug ticket with them. So surreal, being able to run Mozilla (now ‘Seamonkey’) on Windows 11 in 2025.
It looks like it used modern Firefox and Thunderbird code under the hood, so it should be good on standards!
Neat – I just set it up, got my gmail going in the Mail app and it works.
uBlock Origin isn’t officially supported any more as it’s considered ‘legacy browser’, but I found a working XPI here and it even seems to block Youtube ads. Wow.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases/download/firefox-legacy-1.16.4.24/uBlock0_1.16.4.24.firefox-legacy.xpi
…though my self-hosted Nextcloud login page doesn’t seem to work with it. If it isn’t a known issue I’ll file a bug ticket with them.
So surreal, being able to run Mozilla (now ‘Seamonkey’) on Windows 11 in 2025.