On the bright side, ALSA is still supported, the browser can be used to access LibreCMC router's web interface which does not support SSL, and since it is part of GNOME it is actively developed. Epiphany/Web has changed dramatically over the years: the old extensions no longer work after the browser switched to a newer WebKit engine, JavaScript can no longer be disabled in the settings or through dconf-editor (since the developers thought this was a pointless feature to offer) and add-ons are now integrated in the browser (at the moment mostly adblock). When I last tested it it suffered from stability issues (it sometimes unexpectedly crashed). WebKit based: Midori hasn't seen a new release since 2015 and was recently removed by Hyperbola. Another Firefox fork called Pale Moon (which looks very similar to Seamonkey with the Sea Fox and GNOMErunner add-ons) promises to offer support for older features, but the browser is currently incompatible with many Mozilla add-ons (a task the developers are addressing).
Seamonkey based (Seamonkey/Iceape): Currently the browsers unction the same as in the past, but they will probably change as well as they base their code on newer versions of Firefox.
Firefox forks such as Waterfox (which currently supports ALSA) might rectify some of the issues (the latest version fails to playback video using an external player). At the moment IceCat is based on an older ESR (extended support release) version of Firefox which still supports these features, however they will probably be dropped in the next version. In addition, support for ALSA was dropped in recent versions and NPAPI based plugins which enabled playback of video using players such as VLC (instead of using HTML5) no longer work. Mozilla based (Abrowser/IceCat): Mozilla's decision to switch to web extensions will break many legacy add-ons. I'll cover the main issues with the popular browsers.
#Waterfox vs firefox 2017 update
Many of the browsers provided by Trisquel have changed dramatically over the past few years, so finding a browser which one can update regularly without breaking exiting features (similar to a new video player which offers support for new codecs while retaining support for older codecs) is a difficult task.
#Waterfox vs firefox 2017 software
These releases tend to offer software which does not receive version updates for the available packages, however they do offer version updates for the main Mozilla browser. As you know Trisquel's recent releases (6 and 7 and the upcoming 8) are long term releases.
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