Do you know why Firefox lost the browser wars?
Because they always blamed everyone else — always.
It was always a browser extension’s fault, a hardware fault, or the user’s fault. Meanwhile, Chromium works — that’s it — it works.
You lose, and worst of all, you don’t even own up to it.
#Firefox #Mozilla #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5