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You're definitely gaining even more instability than with Chrome. And by that, I mean, insane random changes. Just look at, for example, the recent madness wi
by bbarnett 6y ago
You're definitely gaining even more instability than with Chrome. And by that, I mean, insane random changes.
Just look at, for example, the recent madness with Firefox on Android. They effectively pushed a beta about 6 weeks ago, removed tonnes of features, made many menu items difficult to navigate to, removed compatibility with almost all add-ons, it's slower, it crashes for many constantly, it's just a plain, simple mess.
They had 4.5 stars at one point. They now have 3.9 stars:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=en_CA&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
Do you know how hard you have to work, to drag something down from 4.5, to 3.9, in a month, with almost 4M users?
I honestly don't think they could do worse, if it was intentional sabotage by some hostile insider.
And it's endless garbage like this from Firefox.
What firefox sees:
"OMG! Chrome is gaining ground! Quick, turf everything that is unique on our platform, that is different from Chrome. We must be just like them"
What outsiders see:
"Great, everything I cared about, unique to firefox is now gone. Plus it's slower, buggier, and they keep changing everything around on every single release. Great. Time to move on."
You don't compete with the giant, by being the giant. You etch out a unique market.
Meanwhile, Firefox did the precise opposite, and removed their uniqueness.
They aren't long for this world.
- kspacewalk2 6y agoI've had no issues with stability or usability with new Android FF. Certainly not slower or buggier in the least, so clearly YMMV. It's mildly annoying to re-learn the UI, but Chrome did the exact same thing to me years back when they, for example, dropped viewing every tab as a separate app in the running apps list. I refused to update for a year after that, very annoying. They all do this, I've resigned to it.
- bbarnett 6y ago"All those car sales people haul off and give me a massive punch to the old happy sack, but hey, they all do it, so meh." Feel the burn, the passion, the hatred. Join the dark side. Hate. Hate with me. Maybe our collective hate will drive the madness away.