Other Firefox Dynasty - Firefox for OS X 10.8+

[MacBiter]

I think the approved way is to buy a never-ending subscription to the current 1Password - which I'm never going to do. I agree with you, it is very frustrating.

Looks like I'll be stuck on Firefox 115 ESR until the end of days. Or until I switch password managers.

Is it really "never-ending"? Cocoatech brought that in for PathFinder but have since bowed to user pressure - you can either subscribe, or pay a little more for 12 months of updates, after which time you get no more updates but can carry on using the app. ForkLift have a similar model, and I can see more developers doing the same thing (except the egregious Adobe of course..).

The other thing is to exempt Firefox Dynasty from 1Password - you can still have all your usernames and passwords saved within Firefox.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

The other thing is to exempt Firefox Dynasty from 1Password - you can still have all your usernames and passwords saved within Firefox.

Except then they'll only be in Firefox!!!

Can I please put in a friendly plug for Bitwarden? It is by no means perfect—I have many quibbles with the UI in particular, especially following a recent update—however:

1. It's free. You can pay a very reasonable yearly fee ($10) for some additional features.
2. It's open source. I care about this in something as sensitive as a password manager.
3. It's cross-platform. You can use it in any of the major browsers (or their forks) on any operating system.
4. You can sync your passwords across multiple devices and browsers.
5. Passwords can be accessed from their website vault if you ever need to log in from a public computer.
6. Passwords can be easily exported if you want to move to a different service later on.

Honestly, I'm not sure how I would manage without Bitwarden. When I was choosing a password manager some years ago, it was the only one that checked all the boxes.

My passwords are my life. I need them to be kept safe but I also need them to be available everywhere. I don't ever want to be tied to one device or browser because my passwords aren't available elsewhere.

The only thing it's missing is a desktop app. (There is an electron app but (A) that doesn't count and (B) it of course won't run on my preferred version of OS X). However, this might be for the best... my password manager is the rare thing that is so security sensitive, I don't want to let some out-of-date version run standalone on my also-out-of-date operating system. Using their browser extension inside a modern port of Firefox, which brings its own additional sandboxing protections, feels like the right approach.

Highly recommended. Again, it's not perfect or even amazing, but I really think it's the best of all the options out there.

 

[aUsern@me]

Is it really "never-ending"?

Yes. You stop paying, you can no longer use the app.

Can I please put in a friendly plug for Bitwarden?

I've heard good things about Bitwarden, but I don't want to use a service, nor the cloud, for my passwords. The great thing about pre-predatory 1Password was it was local and easy to sync. I just need my passwords on my Mac and my iPhone.

Anyway, I don't want to hijack this thread and make it yet another 1Password-is-evil complaint. It looks like there's really no practical way of spoofing an official Firefox signature for Firefox Dynasty. Still a great project for those of us running an older OS.

 

[Jonathan50]

cmp3,1 with 8800gt and el capitan runs four or five latest firefox dynasty releases with no problem, even at the same time.

mbp6,2 also with el capitan only runs release 128.0.4, all of the newer releases hang and i have to find and kill their processes, why is that?

 

[nospamboz]

Any possibility of a Thunderbird Dynasty as well?

 

[Useful]

I have a sugestion, rename the Firefox icon name to Firefox Dynasty, because I currently have both FF and FF ESR installed and they look exactly the same. Also would help if you designed a new icon for FF dynasty. what do you all think, this is a pretty new browser so i think there can be more done to improve it. i look forward to using this browser on my old macs!

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I have a sugestion, rename the Firefox icon name to Firefox Dynasty, because I currently have both FF and FF ESR installed and they look exactly the same. Also would help if you designed a new icon for FF dynasty. what do you all think, this is a pretty new browser so i think there can be more done to improve it. i look forward to using this browser on my old macs!

If you use https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Firefox-Dynasty-Downloader-PrefPane/releases/ then Firefox Dynasty will have a unique icon, although the app will still be called Firefox.

 

[MacBiter]

I much prefer the new icon!.

 

[technologicdata]

Hi there, I made an account to reply to this thread (and a whole lot of more reasons ^_^). I thought that sharing this would help someone trying to make their Firefox look awesome.. so here's my recommendation.

Geckium. It's a Firefox theme that gives it the appearance of older Chrome versions.. I think it looks cool.

It works on any Firefox version on modern Windows and macOS, however I tested it to make sure it works on macOS 10.8 and it works perfectly. I don't blame you if you don't want to use this and use a modern design but I like my programs having a design more similar to my OS.

Make sure you follow the instructions perfectly on the GitHub page, once you're done a setup prompt will launch and you can choose what design/version of Chrome you want.

Hope this helps somebody! (nice to meet you all too!)

 

[Wowfunhappy]

^ Yeah, Hiker159 also brought up Geckium on the first page of this thread! It's such a cool project, and I'm glad it's finding a home on Mavericks where it rightly belongs!

I will say that for me personally, Geckium isn't quite polished enough. A bunch of UI elements don't quite look or work correctly, particularly hover states. It's still in beta so maybe it will get there over time, but it's also really difficult to fake this stuff faithfully! That's why I use actual Mavericks and not some newer OS with a theme installed, the themes are never quite right.

Luckily, I actually think stock Firefox looks pretty good on Mavericks if you (1) enable Customize Menu → Title Bar, (2) set UI Density to Compact (requires an about:config change), and (3) install the MacFox Theme.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I've spent most of the long weekend working on my Web App Templates. Links to external websites (defined according to a pattern in info.plist) now open in your default browser instead of as a window within the app. You can also use Info.plist to configure the minimum window size. And, you can add custom Javascript to the website.

I'm not sure if anyone else is using these but I'm really extremely happy with them. They really feel like proper apps!