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I was a huge proponent of Firefox for years (since Netscape 6), version 30 broke it so badly I had to move on to Chrome, two tabs open no plugins and it crashes

I was a huge proponent of Firefox for years (since Netscape 6), version 30 broke it so badly I had to move on to Chrome, two tabs open no plugins and it crashes on a machine with 16Gb of ram if left open over night, and the bug is trivial to reproduce. Updates haven't remedied the situation. When Google no longer monetizes Firefox via paying them to be the default search engine I don't see Firefox staying relevant, it's a shame I miss built in (no plugin needed) tab grouping, I miss having a search box that doesn't tell Google everything I'm typing as I'm typing it, and I certainly miss the smaller memory footprint. I just can't handle the constant crashing, the webpages that render as a completely black box (whether video acceleration is check marked or not) and the continued degradation in performance while they spend developer cycles on things like making it look like Chrome (a move I detested) or removing options power users and professionals use. Most of the time I can use about:config to restore functionality but should I have too? (echos of Gnome).

bdcravens 12y ago
When Google no longer monetizes Firefox via paying them to be the default search engine I don't see Firefox staying relevant You think Microsoft would hesitate cutting a Bing deal?
- agapos 12y ago
  Well, afaik they didn't break their bones to do so before. Also, if Google is gone, no matter how small amount MS would offer for defaulting Bing, Mozilla would have no choice but to accept it.
dblohm7 12y ago
> two tabs open no plugins and it crashes on a machine with 16Gb of ram if left open over night, and the bug is trivial to reproduce Keep in mind that whatever the bug is, it's probably only trivial to reproduce for you. If it truly was globally easy to reproduce, it would send the crash stats (https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox) through the roof. Having said that, it's not good when crashes make your Firefox installation unusable. Firefox has a feature called about:crashes that will provide you with the URLs of your crash reports. Have you considered going to http://support.mozilla.org http://support.mozilla.org and reporting this?

bdcravens 12y ago

When Google no longer monetizes Firefox via paying them to be the default search engine I don't see Firefox staying relevant You think Microsoft would hesitate cutting a Bing deal?

agapos 12y ago
Well, afaik they didn't break their bones to do so before. Also, if Google is gone, no matter how small amount MS would offer for defaulting Bing, Mozilla would have no choice but to accept it.

dblohm7 12y ago

> two tabs open no plugins and it crashes on a machine with 16Gb of ram if left open over night, and the bug is trivial to reproduce Keep in mind that whatever the bug is, it's probably only trivial to reproduce for you. If it truly was globally easy to reproduce, it would send the crash stats (https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox) through the roof. Having said that, it's not good when crashes make your Firefox installation unusable. Firefox has a feature called about:crashes that will provide you with the URLs of your crash reports. Have you considered going to http://support.mozilla.org http://support.mozilla.org and reporting this?