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> I see you are downvoted and I think that is wrong. I downvoted the comment. I'm just not sure it adds anything useful to the conversation when it's not repre

by lol768 7y ago

> I see you are downvoted and I think that is wrong. I downvoted the comment. I'm just not sure it adds anything useful to the conversation when it's not representative of the vast, vast majority of experiences that users have. It sounds like an anecdotal, isolated issue. I didn't post a top-level comment to say I've been using Firefox for over a decade without it crashing because it's just not remarkable or interesting. I'd be more interested if some crash reports or BugZilla issues had been linked to substantiate the comment. For what it's worth, I'd have downvoted a comment made in the same vein regarding Chrome too.

Dumblydorr 7y ago
So you downvoted me for sharing the fact that I have given firefox numerous chances and it has continued to not be what this thread promised? That's just hivemind in action, you're punishing someone for going against the HN grain. Besides, by downvoting those with issues, you're burying their comment away from others who may have similar issues or know the fix. Downvotes should be for trolls and shills and low effort memery, not for legitimate dissent.
- lol768 7y ago
  I didn't downvote you for dissenting, and I explained this in my comment. But what can we take away from the anecdote? We don't know anything about your system's hardware components, we don't know if you're using X or Wayland, we don't know which versions of Firefox you tried. We've not seen any BugZilla reports or crash reports. We don't know what websites are problematic. I would have no problems with folks saying "on device X, I had issues where the Firefox would use 100% of a CPU core when I visited website Y. Here's my https://profiler.firefox.com/ https://profiler.firefox.com/ link, I reported it on BugZilla but the bug hasn't been fixed yet.". That's specific, useful anecdotal information that developers can follow up on and users can use to evaluate whether it's a deal breaker for them or not. Generic comments like "performance is terrible for me, I've tried multiple times" are just going to get replies from users who've had no problems at all.
  - hu3 7y ago
    Please don't do that. This thread is full of generic comments and anecdotes devoid of details. Did you downvote all of them as well? Or just the ones that don't agree with your opinion? This is Hacker News not BugZilla. It's perfectly fine for users to expose their anecdotes without having to provide extensive details.

by lol768 7y ago

Dumblydorr 7y ago

So you downvoted me for sharing the fact that I have given firefox numerous chances and it has continued to not be what this thread promised? That's just hivemind in action, you're punishing someone for going against the HN grain. Besides, by downvoting those with issues, you're burying their comment away from others who may have similar issues or know the fix. Downvotes should be for trolls and shills and low effort memery, not for legitimate dissent.

lol768 7y ago
I didn't downvote you for dissenting, and I explained this in my comment. But what can we take away from the anecdote? We don't know anything about your system's hardware components, we don't know if you're using X or Wayland, we don't know which versions of Firefox you tried. We've not seen any BugZilla reports or crash reports. We don't know what websites are problematic. I would have no problems with folks saying "on device X, I had issues where the Firefox would use 100% of a CPU core when I visited website Y. Here's my https://profiler.firefox.com/ https://profiler.firefox.com/ link, I reported it on BugZilla but the bug hasn't been fixed yet.". That's specific, useful anecdotal information that developers can follow up on and users can use to evaluate whether it's a deal breaker for them or not. Generic comments like "performance is terrible for me, I've tried multiple times" are just going to get replies from users who've had no problems at all.
- hu3 7y ago
  Please don't do that. This thread is full of generic comments and anecdotes devoid of details. Did you downvote all of them as well? Or just the ones that don't agree with your opinion? This is Hacker News not BugZilla. It's perfectly fine for users to expose their anecdotes without having to provide extensive details.