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My experience has tended to be the other way round. I’ve filed quite a few bugs in Firefox over the years, and a handful in Chromium. Filtering to similar sorts

My experience has tended to be the other way round. I’ve filed quite a few bugs in Firefox over the years, and a handful in Chromium. Filtering to similar sorts of reports (since many of my Firefox reports are using-the-browser related, and often dealing with regressions since I’ve used Nightly for ~11 of the last 13 years, whereas my Chromium reports have only ever been for things like rendering errors), most of my Firefox reports have been dealt with fairly promptly (though some linger), whereas in Chromium I don’t think I’ve ever had prompt action after initial triage—a couple have been fixed incidentally two or more years later due to replacement of a large component, but I think that’s it. (My experience is almost all more than two years old. Haven’t needed to file much in the last couple of years.)

jansan 3y ago
I once had a fantastic experience with reporting a bug on Firefox. One engineer saw that the bug was severe enough to justify delaying the release process, they worked their asses off to fix the bug and merged the bug into the new version which was released with just a little delay. That was amazing to watch. In general I have the feeling that Firefox and Chromium developers take bug reports very seriously. Safari is a different story, my bug reports there got frequently ignored. But I have the feeling that the entire Safari project is handled by one single developer, so it's not really surprising.
tripflag 3y ago
I feel that Firefox has been increasingly focusing on adding fancy new features rather than ensuring the browser is stable and functional. Accounts, Sync, Pocket, to name some examples. If we include the android edition it's easy to mention the UX customization options as another example. "Scroll to hide toolbar" frequently breaks the viewport size calculation, making it impossible to scroll to the bottom of most pages. "Pull to refresh" keeps triggering when trying to scroll up on pages. "Swipe toolbar to switch tabs" is great, even though it occasionally sends you to the new-tab splashpage which I'm still not quite sure how to effectively return from. And the decision to make most addons unavailable is just confusing through and through. I get the motivation to add "some value" to set Firefox apart from the competition; I just wish it was a far second to bugfixes.

jansan 3y ago

I once had a fantastic experience with reporting a bug on Firefox. One engineer saw that the bug was severe enough to justify delaying the release process, they worked their asses off to fix the bug and merged the bug into the new version which was released with just a little delay. That was amazing to watch. In general I have the feeling that Firefox and Chromium developers take bug reports very seriously. Safari is a different story, my bug reports there got frequently ignored. But I have the feeling that the entire Safari project is handled by one single developer, so it's not really surprising.

tripflag 3y ago

I feel that Firefox has been increasingly focusing on adding fancy new features rather than ensuring the browser is stable and functional. Accounts, Sync, Pocket, to name some examples. If we include the android edition it's easy to mention the UX customization options as another example. "Scroll to hide toolbar" frequently breaks the viewport size calculation, making it impossible to scroll to the bottom of most pages. "Pull to refresh" keeps triggering when trying to scroll up on pages. "Swipe toolbar to switch tabs" is great, even though it occasionally sends you to the new-tab splashpage which I'm still not quite sure how to effectively return from. And the decision to make most addons unavailable is just confusing through and through. I get the motivation to add "some value" to set Firefox apart from the competition; I just wish it was a far second to bugfixes.