Are we running same firefox? I have same experience like you, but with
Chrome. Firefox is best performing and rock solid compared to anything else
to me and I run it on all my computers including virtual boxes, with ~100
tabs I achieved months of uptime with no crash. Can't say this about chrome
or others.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 at 02:08, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gonna be honest...after using Firefox almost
exclusively for the last 10
years whenever I had a choice, I'm ready to give up on it. I don't expect
all the bells and whistles (and privacy compromises) of the big commercial
browsers, but Firefox has decided to take a path that is actively awful.
It's not just awful on Wikipedia (where I know logged-in users with lots of
preferences and scripts are always going to be slow), it is awful on every
website I go to, and it crashes on a multiple-times-a-day basis. It does
this on all three of my computers. I've been trying to stay loyal and look
at the bigger "free knowledge" bit...but I have had six crashes today and
I'm done. I hear this a lot from people I know outside of Wikimedia, and
I've been told its unreliability is why several companies have decided
against adding it (or have removed it) as an acceptable alternate browser.
So no, I do not think it would be a good idea for anyone, let alone the
Wikimedia Foundation, to advocate on behalf of this software.
Risker/Anne
On 3 September 2017 at 03:22, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi!
> After Firefox and Chromium, there's a bunch of open source web browsers
> listed on [2], but a brief spot check showed many as being Linux only
> (or outdated Mac builds). One that looked promising was Brave[3],
though
it's
a relatively new browser and I would need to do more research
regarding #3.
I've been using Brave for a couple of months occasionally, and it seems
to work pretty well. It has (some) adblocking in default config, and
some other privacy-enhancing settings, which are probably not very
important for Wikimedia sites but may either break some other sites or
make them bearable :)
It's pretty young, so I don't think we can say much about security
record yet - IIRC it's based on Chromium, and it's updated pretty
frequently, and it's easy to use (though the UI might be a bit more
spartan then others for now, and not many extensions available - but for
ex-IE users it may not be an issue).
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
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