Roughly a year ago at Mozilla we started an effort to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS projects.
Just a nice feelgood read about collaboration in the open source world – and if you use Firefox on Linux, like I do, this is already benefiting you greatly.
I also use Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu) regularly and I have never found it to be especially unstable as it is tbh. It always seemed to work fine. I still welcome the effort though for other users and for Linux in general it’s nice to have people looking into this stuff.
Me too, and with Ubuntu 21.04 (running Wayland on default) Firefox has great. I have also been test driving Firefox 89 with the new Proton UI and it has been really great.
This should also improve stability on other platforms where the same crash may not produce a useful stack trace. However, Mozilla needs to first fix crash reporting in the Flatpak edition to get anything useful out of me!
I use FF on Win10 and it is mostly very stable. I tested the new Edge for a whole month as my main browser, it also is very good, but FF isn’t slower than Edge (or at least that’s how I feel it). I remember when I was using Linux, FF was crashing very often, to the point I ended up using Chrome only, but that was years ago.
I use FF full time on linux and it’s been almost completely stable (maybe one crash/year?). I’ve got loads of ram though and I don’t know if that makes a difference. The android version on the other hand is quite buggy for me some days to the point of frustration
I regularly encounter websites that tell me to upgrade to a current browser despite the fact that I’m running the latest FF, but it doesn’t usually cause a problem. Recently I have come across a few websites that refused to work correctly under FF, it’s obvious that their developers only tested under chrome. For example godaddy’s customer portal is broken under firefox, which is ironic given that they’re an internet company. While standards have become much better than 1-2 decades ago, it’s obvious that chrome has become the new IE in terms of companies not bothering to test or support anything else.
There is no king or crown prince of Korea anymore. South Korea is a republic and has been for decades. Nearest thing to a crown prince is a member of North Korea’s Kim family. That’s not who this is, is it?
We are starting to see some companies in the computer world appearing looking at longer time existence of computer hardware like https://frame.work/ these need support.
But we also have issues with more than Apple. Take Epyc AMD CPU for servers you can get dell server with these in even that they are socketed they will not transfer to another company motherboard. This is the AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPU. This is a pain in another way as well you have a unlocked AMD CPU you put it in a vendor board who is using this feature and its now comes locked as well.
The ability to recycle parts is being really hindered by many parties.
Yes security locking the PSB could make sense but including means that you can remove a CPU from motherboard and unlock it to use it else where would also make sense if you are talking about being environmental sound by supporting reuse.