Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by alpaca128 on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:25PM (#30336949)

I can't remember Firefox crashing in recent years and that includes times I approached 2000 open tabs. Though after using the same profile for over 5 years now it has trouble remembering the color scheme for whatever reason.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by selfhoster11 on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:30PM (#30337026)

"Soft" crashes where websites simply don't load or function properly in FF, but do in Chrome, are far more common.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by alpaca128 on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:17PM (#30339885)

I'd say that's usually a problem with websites and not the browser.

Many websites are just designed with the 80% of most frequent configurations. And when autoplay is disabled, the browser window is too narrow, a special font isn't loaded or a cookie is blocked all bets are off.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by antod on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:53PM (#30339552)

I never had Firefox crashes until Ubuntu 21.10 which I think made Firefox a snap, now I get crashes when it tries to load fonts. And I get that colour scheme thing now too.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by voidlogic on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:05PM (#30342186)

You can still run firefox as normal app, and it's rock solid.

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