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FWIW, https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 ("Support form filling for at least 1040 irs form") has a comment saying "MuPDF-GL has the capability to edit fields and save the PDF" of a 1040.

I have just learned the Firefox 93 added support XFA - https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html .

So it would appear there are free software solutions to XFA forms.

Just because something doesn't seem far-fetched to you, doesn't mean most people will regard it as far-fetched.

Many people all sorts of "sectarian objections" - far more than there are SovCits or other tax protesters. Stallman has never come across as a tax protester. Ergo, I think it's far-fetched that "sectarian objections" is strongly associated with tax protests.

Further, at https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html we can read Stallman opinine that we need to "return to the "bad old days", when Americans in general could have a decent life, not penury; when the US could afford to build what the public needed instead of privatizing everything with a toll" by making taxation more progressive. At https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html we read he supports "The Fairness in Taxation Act [which] would raise taxes to 45% on incomes over a million dollars a year."

>Did you try to contribute to Chromium and Firefox to speed up fixing the Logjam issue?

No. The issue isn't that it's (so) hard to fix; the fix in 39 has been out for a while, they just didn't want to release it for the stable release, which means few people got it. (In fact, some distros apparently fixed their versions earlier [1]).

On Firefox, you could manually fix it in 2 minutes [2]

I'm not familiar with the codebases, so it would take me longer to make a patch, but it really should not take 2 months to release to stable a fix that affected 8.4% [3] of popular websites, especially for a company like Google.

The tinfoil hat in me says certain things about this, considering that logjam was likely known by the NSA, but then again I can't prove anything.

I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more talk about this, actually. A major security hole going unfixed for months after public disclosure should have had more chatter.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9702061
[2] http://techdows.com/2015/05/how-to-make-firefox-browser-safe-against-logjam-attack.html
[3] https://weakdh.org/

Both Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] removed it from their stores. I don't know if we should expect an official announcement, but it seems that neither Mozilla nor Google commented on the issue. Many other sources reported it though[3][4][5].

If you are using WOT in either Firefox or Chromium/Chrome you can just remove it without replacing it with anything. Both browsers cover that for you with Google's Safe Browsing[6][7].

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/wot-safe-browsing-tool/

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wot-web-of-trust-website

[3]: http://techdows.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-add-on-removed.html (4/11/2016)

[4]: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/05/mozilla-and-google-remove-wot-extension/ (5/11/2016)

[5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5bgnyr/weboftrust_removed_from_chrome_and_firefox/ (6/11/2016)

[6]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing

[7]: https://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/

> On Windows, third-party modules can now be blocked from injecting themselves into Firefox, which can be helpful if they are causing crashes or other undesirable behavior.

about:third-party : ( https://techdows.com/2023/02/firefox-block-third-party-modules.html )

Nevertheless, some third-party developers seek to modify the browser in ways beyond what is possible with a browser extension and resort to “hooking” the browser, effectively injecting third-party executable code modules into Firefox processes. Security software such as anti-virus products on Windows are the most prevalent examples. ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/third-party-software-injection/ )

about:plugins : ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxPlugins )

With Firefox 53, the ability to restore NPAPI plugin support will be removed completely. ( https://winaero.com/firefox-drops-all-npapi-plugins-except-flash/ )

> attempt to set itself as the default app for numerous functions

That's false, if you install any new browser -- Chrome, Opera, Firefox -- the next time you open a URL or HTML file, Windows will ask you if you still want to use your existing default browser or change it. This is done because apps can no longer set the default browser themselves and must ask the user to do it.

Regardless, your existing default browser is still the top choice, clearly spaced from the rest: https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/popup-dialog-on-Windows-10-startup.png (in this example, Firefox Nightly was recently installed, causing the prompt)

Pinning itself to your taskbar is debatable because it effectively replaced Edge, which comes pinned to taskbar out of the box.

It will never be ported fully. It's one of those extensions that dived so deep into Firefox's source code that Mozilla changing things in the source code caused it to break a lot of the times.

Mozilla categorically doesn't want that anymore, as it will inevitably cause some Mozilla devs to try to not break those extensions and therefore not do things such as code refactoring. The sort of stuff that you can ignore in the short-term in order to not break extensions, but which causes huge problems in the long run.

The CTR dev has however created a userChrome.css file, which you can use to get at least the visual changes: http://techdows.com/2017/09/classic-theme-restorer-userchrome-css-modify-firefox-57-photon-ui.html