On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:08 PM, 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.
As long as we are going on anecdotal evidence, I run Firefox ESR
52.3.0 on an OSX laptop all day every day and can not remember the
last crash I had. I do shutdown the browser every evening which may or
may not avoid serious memory leaks. In my personal past experience,
Firefox crashes were almost always correlated with buggy user
installed, community developed extensions.
Bryan
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