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If I was running a beta, I'd happily do that. But I have little goodwill left at this point and little expectation of being rewarded for investing any more time

If I was running a beta, I'd happily do that. But I have little goodwill left at this point and little expectation of being rewarded for investing any more time, or interesting waiting for a fix. There's a plethora of 'how to stop Firefox from being a cpu hog' articles online, which suggests that this isn't uncommon behaviour, nor limited to a recent release.

michaelmrose 7y ago
Complaining on hacker news doesn't get stuff fixed bug reports preferably with specific info like specific software/hardware versions and sites on which the behavior occur do. In all likelihood - 10% of laptops/desktops are mac - 5-10% or less run firefox on mac. If firefox has more problems on mac I wouldn't be surprised if firefox had less marketshare on mac than overall. -Some unknown percentage have major issues, lets call it 1% since lots of people report firefox works fine for them on mac. You could be facing issues faced by only 0.05%-0.5% of firefox users. If people who face such issues overwhelmingly choose not to bother to report them then they will never be corrected. Beta testing is unlikely to ever find all possible issues that will be uncovered when a product is exposed to millions of users. Obvious bugs that effect everyone are quickly fixed. What's left is often less obvious issues that effect a smaller portion of the user base.
- Fnoord 7y ago
  I use Firefox daily on a Mac. It just works. Since Quantum or so, it works fast. Before that, I resorted to Chrome on Mac. And because of that, I resorted to Chrome in general. At work, in the virtual desktop (which I can actually avoid using most of the time) I only get to choose between IE or Chrome. My point? You lost me as a Firefox user in the past. And I have been an avid Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator, Mozilla SeaMonkey (first milestones) and Mozilla Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox user in the past (I even used Phoenix 0.1). The only other browser which I used with pleasure, is Opera (with Presto). It's not just that. I don't want a homogeneous browser culture. I believe that is bad on the long term.
feanaro 7y ago
I've never seen this in a Firefox install and I've seen many installs. At least in the last several years and further back I either don't remember or it's useless to mention now.

michaelmrose 7y ago

Complaining on hacker news doesn't get stuff fixed bug reports preferably with specific info like specific software/hardware versions and sites on which the behavior occur do. In all likelihood - 10% of laptops/desktops are mac - 5-10% or less run firefox on mac. If firefox has more problems on mac I wouldn't be surprised if firefox had less marketshare on mac than overall. -Some unknown percentage have major issues, lets call it 1% since lots of people report firefox works fine for them on mac. You could be facing issues faced by only 0.05%-0.5% of firefox users. If people who face such issues overwhelmingly choose not to bother to report them then they will never be corrected. Beta testing is unlikely to ever find all possible issues that will be uncovered when a product is exposed to millions of users. Obvious bugs that effect everyone are quickly fixed. What's left is often less obvious issues that effect a smaller portion of the user base.

Fnoord 7y ago
I use Firefox daily on a Mac. It just works. Since Quantum or so, it works fast. Before that, I resorted to Chrome on Mac. And because of that, I resorted to Chrome in general. At work, in the virtual desktop (which I can actually avoid using most of the time) I only get to choose between IE or Chrome. My point? You lost me as a Firefox user in the past. And I have been an avid Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator, Mozilla SeaMonkey (first milestones) and Mozilla Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox user in the past (I even used Phoenix 0.1). The only other browser which I used with pleasure, is Opera (with Presto). It's not just that. I don't want a homogeneous browser culture. I believe that is bad on the long term.

feanaro 7y ago

I've never seen this in a Firefox install and I've seen many installs. At least in the last several years and further back I either don't remember or it's useless to mention now.