[C.Nails]

Firestorm version 6.6.17 (the last pre-PBR version) will remain available “forever.”

The last non-PBR viewer will remain available for any users who are unable or unwilling to make the update. However, it will not be maintained. and we will not be able to fix bugs or retrofit new services, so the choice does carry a price tag: 

you will: 
- not see PBR materials, and when regions begin to employ PBR Terrain, older viewers will see grey/white ground.
- you will lose voice capability
- You will also not have access to other post-PBR features such as Emojis. ( OH NO, the HORROR)
 

read more :
https://www.firestormviewer.org/firestor...our-voice/


As always, the responses are interesting reading, for me at least!

[BirdsRdumb]

- You will also not have access to other post-PBR features such as Emojis. ( OH NO, the HORROR)
 

I quite enjoy the emojis 

[Goku95]

Since I'm pretty sure I will stay on v6 forever (no hardware to run v7, and I'm not willing to change my actual hardware anytime soon, since it does the job just right and I'm happy with it), all I can say is... it is what it is ! I can live without all the features mentioned above. I would like the built-in emoji support from v7 on v6 through .

Funny thing: in the Windows version of Firestorm v6.6.17, some emojis (inserted by other means, with copy-paste etc.) do display properly. But on Linux (in my case Linux Mint 21.2), the same v6.6.17 is incapable of displaying them (they appear as squares) .