Mozilla Corporation’s Response to Firefox 3′s Instability

3 Responses to “Mozilla Corporation’s Response to Firefox 3′s Instability”

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• Asa Dotzler

  May 12, 2008 at 3:20 pm

  This has nothing to do with the stability of the program. It has to do with how many users are on a particular version.

  When we go from having one or two million beta testers (where we already getenough crash data to diagnose and fix all of the most serious problems,) to shipping the product to 100 or 200 million users, where we’d get way more data than we actually need, slowing down our ability to receive and process and act on it, we drop the percentage down. We’ll still be getting more than enough data from the crash reporter to find and fix any crashes (with tens of millions of users giving crash report feedback) and we’ll save time for the user, the qa team, and the IT folks.

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• FreakyT

  May 12, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  Makes sense. I’m just kind of bitter toward Firefox 3′s instability on Vista, and I found that bugfix amusing as a result.

  I’m still not sure if it’s just me experiencing this issue, though deleting my profile and all plugins had no effect, and at this point I’ve just switched back to FF2 for now.
• GaryCallaghan

  July 3, 2008 at 7:03 pm

  I’m currently running Windows Vista Ultimate and have noticed that it is very unstable especially with the loading of youtube videos and or downloads. Doing these things causes my Firefox 3 to use an awful amount of ram:( Thus making my pc very slow

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