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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by fizixer on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:17PM (#22425000)
Firefox does 'gah! your tab just crashed' on my amazon tabs at a rate of about 1 in every 4 times. Once it decides to do that on a particular tab, no amount of refresh or reopen, or restart-firefox fixes it.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, and this has been happening consistently for the last 5+ years.

Every. single. goshdarn. effing. firefox. release.

(sorry just wanted to vent. I've tried every solution I could find on askubuntu, stackoverflow, what not. Nothing fixes it. I know I should be filing a bug report, and/or upgrading my OS, but I don't have the time, patience to deal with that. I need to finish school first.).

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by josteink on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:36PM (#22425196)
> I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, and this has been happening consistently for the last 5+ years.

Might help updating to a modern version of Ubuntu with a modern kernel and modern (and less buggy) GPU drivers?

Browsers are increasingly using GPU-acceleration these days. If your GPU drivers are buggy, that can probably cause a whole lot of “fun”.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by fizixer on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:59PM (#22425462)
Or I could be a happy camper of Chrome/Chromium for as long as I like.
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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by Symbiote on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:03PM (#22426739)
Ubuntu 14.04 is no longer supported by Canonical. No security patches etc.
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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by jmngomes on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:37PM (#22426442)
I've used Firefox since I cannot recall when, on Ubuntu 16 and 18, and Windows 7 and Windows 10.

Although I've experienced very rare crashes, like I have with Chrome/Chromium, my experience is that Firefox is stable and does everything I need, including some basic web dev/debug.

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