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We've just passed the four-year anniversary of the bug that made me abandon Firefox on Mac: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541 https://bugzilla
by mherdeg 14y ago
We've just passed the four-year anniversary of the bug that made me abandon Firefox on Mac: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541
If you are an extremely fast typer, pretty much any time you use Firefox on OS X to "Save As" you will hit this incarnation of a bug that hangs every tab in your browser and forces you to kill it and start from scratch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528149 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528149
Total bummer, I love Firefox but I'm not gonna train myself to type slower to keep from breaking it. This is no Therac-25.
- bhauer 14y agoI love Firefox and use it every day. But you bring up an important point. The Google Chrome team has some pretty annoying bugs and limitations that they ignore for years, but the same is true for Firefox. For example, my largest pet peeve with Firefox is that two sessions cannot share the same profile. I can't have Firefox open for user abc in desktop session 1 and try to open it again as user abc in desktop session 2. Chrome and IE have no problem doing that. No joke, the issue is a decade old. And Mozilla recently marked the issue as a wont-fix. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137 I didn't lodge a complaint in the bug's comment trail. It's disappointing, but I figure it's essentially impossible for any of these guys to have a stellar record on bugs when you're got bug IDs in the high six-digits.