It only makes it worse when I put tracking protection settings on because then in addition to still tracking history streams won't work (they end up choppy and stall).

This has been the case prior to Mozilla ending its support for MAC OS prior to 10.9 I have 'never remember history' selected, and I'm CONSTANTLY having to go into the Privacy Settings and hit 'delete all history', over and over. Or move to Google's products? I can't get History to stop saving. Shall I just use Safari (which is garbage). To dump us because we can't buy a new computer to run a newer OS that is a memory hog is quite frankly, a shame. Some of us remember the Netscape/Internet Explorer war and CHOOSE Mozilla Firefox with intent. It is unreasonable for Firefox support to have been dropped for MAC OS systems prior to 10.9 - it's a browser, it should always be backward compatible.

I can't spend $3,000 with Apple to get a MacBook with 16GB to give up 250GB of hard drive space for the same size screen just to run the newer OS and update Firefox. I have a 2012 MacBook running 10.8.5 because it only has 8GB and can not run a newer version of the OS.

I think telling someone who has clearly indicated he/she can not update their computer to update their computer is a but unreasonable.