IE and Edge go into crash-dive

Skybird · 01-02-18, 06:44 PM

Firefox looses one quarter of traffic shares over its alleged "improvements" in the past month. It now indeed reminds me a lot of the Opera crash down some years ago when Opera did the same foolish thing like now Firefox and compromised its key argument of privacy defense for - well, for whatever they think was worth it. They lost half of their users within 8 weeks. Firefox now lost around one quarter in four weeks.

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...ost-share.html

propbeanie · 01-03-18, 11:06 AM

Software companies sure do seem good at shooting themselves in the foot, sometimes being so good at it, they hit the head instead...

Skybird · 01-03-18, 11:22 AM

Mozilla was in a difficult seat, they had to do somethign since they were3 constantly looisng market shares. They should have more aggressively advertised the features that are their tgradiitonal stregnths: protection, poirvacy, safety, but instead they opted for starting the race the others were already leading in: more speed, at the cost of using Google's engine and thus forbidding a good amount of their former privacy features. Apparently this policy led to a split in their developer teams as well, with a good amount of their guys leaving the company, most likely in anger.

I find this arguing over vbrowswer seepds hilarious. I mean the speed of old Firefox and new Firefox - I read there is a difference. Its just that it is not apparent to my eyes. Which lets all their claimed modernization collapse, imo. Whatever it is they think they improved in: to me it is non-apparent, and meaningless. I do not care whether a site loads 2 tenths of a second faster or slower - it does not matter. I click, and two seconds later the site is up - more I cannot want. 1.5 seconds? 1 second? Less...? Pffft - get a life, Mozilla.

propbeanie · 01-03-18, 11:37 AM

I also cannot tell a difference - for the most part - except some pages do NOT load. No explanation, it just "hangs" with a blank page...

01-02-18, 06:44 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,668 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Firefox looses one quarter of traffic shares over its alleged "improvements" in the past month. It now indeed reminds me a lot of the Opera crash down some years ago when Opera did the same foolish thing like now Firefox and compromised its key argument of privacy defense for - well, for whatever they think was worth it. They lost half of their users within 8 weeks. Firefox now lost around one quarter in four weeks. https://www.computerworld.com/articl...ost-share.html __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

01-03-18, 11:06 AM	#2
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,100 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	Software companies sure do seem good at shooting themselves in the foot, sometimes being so good at it, they hit the head instead... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

01-03-18, 11:22 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,668 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Mozilla was in a difficult seat, they had to do somethign since they were3 constantly looisng market shares. They should have more aggressively advertised the features that are their tgradiitonal stregnths: protection, poirvacy, safety, but instead they opted for starting the race the others were already leading in: more speed, at the cost of using Google's engine and thus forbidding a good amount of their former privacy features. Apparently this policy led to a split in their developer teams as well, with a good amount of their guys leaving the company, most likely in anger. I find this arguing over vbrowswer seepds hilarious. I mean the speed of old Firefox and new Firefox - I read there is a difference. Its just that it is not apparent to my eyes. Which lets all their claimed modernization collapse, imo. Whatever it is they think they improved in: to me it is non-apparent, and meaningless. I do not care whether a site loads 2 tenths of a second faster or slower - it does not matter. I click, and two seconds later the site is up - more I cannot want. 1.5 seconds? 1 second? Less...? Pffft - get a life, Mozilla. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

01-03-18, 11:37 AM	#4
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,100 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	I also cannot tell a difference - for the most part - except some pages do NOT load. No explanation, it just "hangs" with a blank page... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna