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Comment by jlarocco | Hacker News Reader

I'm a little bummed out that I just switched back to Chromium after several months on Firefox, but Firefox has some very annoying bugs that were driving me crazy.

On the plus side, it's the only Google software I use on a regular basis.

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What bugs specifically have you encountered?

The amount of random crashes on the Youtube pages is crazy

I don't think my Firefox has crashed in years on Youtube.

ironically, if you add the "youtube enhancer" add-on/extension, which allows you to bypass ads, the crashes go away.

I'm not sure what you mean, I haven't experienced that behavior. Maybe try with a clean profile?

The most annoying is the way it handles updates. There's no easy way to turn off auto-update (I get updates via my package manager), and the functionality in Firefox is completely broken. It downloads the update and then refuses to open any pages until the browser is restarted, but the restart functionality is broken, and it just exits, losing all of the tabs that were open.

It happened again one day, and when Firefox exited I just started Chromium up instead.

It feels, to me, that Firefox and Mozilla have a very annoying "We know better than you" attitude towards a lot of things. That's great for people who want that, but I don't.

I definitely share the frustration with Firefox refusing to work if it detects that it was updated, and just showing the "Please restart Firefox" page. AFAIK that's a recent addition, and done on purpose, so not a bug. But definitely not the best user experience.

I haven't had a problem restarting Firefox and having all my tabs appearing again. Maybe something is corrupted in your profile?

I also haven't found that to be Mozilla's attitude. Luckily a lot of things are configurable in about:config

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