Thanks for the detailed response! I wasn’t aware that Firefox was such a clusterfuck. I think I also had pretty old browser market share numbers cached in my head and those numbers were probably for desktop market only; the 5 % number surprised me. Huh, Firefox actually is niche; I was being facetious.
Indeed. It’s quite frustrating, by the way; like anyone who’s been paying attention to the state of the internet lately, I really have no desire to encourage, much less contribute to, Google’s growing control of the web (and with Microsoft Edge being migrated to Google’s Blink rendering engine, Firefox will be one of the last islands of resistance to the Apple/Google—i.e., WebKit/Blink—hegemony). I want to support Firefox! I want Firefox to be good (as it once was), and I want people to use it!
Well, they seem to have plenty of resources available to rewrite their browser in Rust, to develop a mobile operating system, to make a version of Firefox for virtual reality (!!) …
… it seems possible, at least, that some of those resources are capable of being applied to their vast backlog of bugs. But who knows?
I couldn’t say. I regularly use neither the Less Wrong website (I do my LW browsing/commenting/etc. via GreaterWrong) nor Firefox (which I use only for testing purposes).
Have you reported this bug to the Less Wrong development team?
Thanks for the detailed response! I wasn’t aware that Firefox was such a clusterfuck. I think I also had pretty old browser market share numbers cached in my head and those numbers were probably for desktop market only; the 5 % number surprised me. Huh, Firefox actually is niche; I was being facetious.
Indeed. It’s quite frustrating, by the way; like anyone who’s been paying attention to the state of the internet lately, I really have no desire to encourage, much less contribute to, Google’s growing control of the web (and with Microsoft Edge being migrated to Google’s Blink rendering engine, Firefox will be one of the last islands of resistance to the Apple/Google—i.e., WebKit/Blink—hegemony). I want to support Firefox! I want Firefox to be good (as it once was), and I want people to use it!
But boy, Mozilla sure doesn’t make it easy…
Do you know anything about whether that’s a “mozilla lacks resources” thing or a “mozilla is actively dysfunctional” thing?”
Well, they seem to have plenty of resources available to rewrite their browser in Rust, to develop a mobile operating system, to make a version of Firefox for virtual reality (!!) …
… it seems possible, at least, that some of those resources are capable of being applied to their vast backlog of bugs. But who knows?
Is this why lesswrong doesn’t work on firefox? (Voting specifically.)
Voting should work on Firefox and if it doesn’t that is surprising and bad. Do you have any kind of noscript plugins running by any chance?
(Note that there are some general bugs re: voting aggregation that are not Firefox specific that we are working on)
I couldn’t say. I regularly use neither the Less Wrong website (I do my LW browsing/commenting/etc. via GreaterWrong) nor Firefox (which I use only for testing purposes).
Have you reported this bug to the Less Wrong development team?
No, so I checked to see if it’s still an issue before doing so, and it isn’t.