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> but for almost the entire decade prior Firefox was unstable trash. I don't think it was any more unstable than other browsers at the time, however they were
by cptskippy 5y ago
> but for almost the entire decade prior Firefox was unstable trash.
I don't think it was any more unstable than other browsers at the time, however they were the ones who introduced session restore to combat crashing. It's funny how a mitigation to crashing evolved into a must have feature.
I've been using it since it was called Phoenix and trash is the last word I'd use to describe it.
- minusf 5y agoi think old opera's session restore left everybody in the dust. i think opera was the fastest and best browser for a long long time.
- TheFlyingFish 5y agoThe thing I've never understood about Opera is - what were they missing? They pioneered a ton of features that are now ubiquitous, like tabs and "speed dial," but somehow never managed to gain much market share. Why not?
- minusf 5y agoyes, it was truly the utorrent of browsers. well it was commercial software.. first trialware, then it showed ads, and so on. i guess for a long time it couldnt be given away freely as it was developed by a small company. not being open source also hampered true cross platform, for example on openbsd it could be run only under linux emulation.