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> I’ll still keep using Firefox since I recognize the importance of browser diversity

Also, Chrome is not immune to "crashes for everyone at the same time" bugs. Like that time when the start of daylight saving time made it crash for a full day (a quick search tells me it probably was https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=287821).

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That bug seems to have affected only users on Android versions earlier than 4.3 and in Brazil or Chile.

> "crashes for everyone at the same time" bugs

What else would you expect for auto-updating software that relies on the internet to work? It's a monoculture attached to a firehose of disease.

This is exactly the same as "pushing out a security fix to all users," except it apparently wasn't intentional. You can't have one without the other.

I love "firehose of disease", and will steal it. And I agree that bugs are bugs; every time you add a new capability, you add all the possible bugs that can occur with that capability.

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