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...@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 <smalys...@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 (or outdated Mac builds).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 > > smalys...@wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
