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I do remember constantly hearing that Alta Vista was good but I think I only used Microsoft and Yahoo (I forget what else there was). Nope, crashes were definit

I do remember constantly hearing that Alta Vista was good but I think I only used Microsoft and Yahoo (I forget what else there was). Nope, crashes were definitely common. Browser quality until around 2010 or so was absolutely horrible. Firefox was another case like Google where it debuted around 2000-2003 and everyone immediately switched to it because it was a massive improvement over IE which barely functioned at all. It still wasn't good, just better than the other crap. The types of bugs in Firefox back in 2003 are absolutely embarrassing by even the common software engineer's standards today. Then of course Firefox just grew in bloat at the same time as it grew in amount of people to fix its problems and now we have a different kind of crap.

acdha 4y ago
> Nope, crashes were definitely common. Browser quality until around 2010 or so was absolutely horrible. Again, this is way too hyperbolic. I was there too, and while browser crashes weren’t uncommon you’re overstating it massively. Crashes every few minutes weren’t even the case in 1995.
- uconnectlol 4y ago
  Oh, I see, you were taking that literally. I'd estimate more like 2-5 times per day. Of course this entirely depends on which content you were viewing, and as soon as you ventured out side of the good boy zone it got much worse.