Having switched to Zen Browser, something I miss with Firefox was its stability. I find myself looking up Zen browser bugs and workarounds too much. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I'm downgrading Zen versions due to a bug in the stable version, I never had to do so during my years on Firefox. Devs on Github making an app on their free time have can't spend as long on QA as a multi-mullion dollar organization.
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synapse1278@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Never.
bruce965@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
Never happened in my life. Personally, if something breaks I just wait for it to get fixed.
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y
I never have, but I typically run what's packaged by Debian, which packages Firefox ESR.
I'd imagine that if one runs nightly builds or something, one would hit some level of regressions.
MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I run nightly, not exclusively but pretty close, and I must say Firefox' nightly builds are pretty damn stable in my experience. For sure, there are situations where some feature y is clearly unfinished, but it's super rare to face a situation where I would even need to think about working around some issue - such game breaking issues just don't happen too much at all. Usually, if a build is found to be truly broken (like crashes very often etc.) then nightly updates get paused. I can remember maybe two times that I've had to revert to previous build in over ten years because the I had received an update before updates were halted.
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I just checked and I have never downgraded Firefox on my current install. Interestingly I have downgraded Chromium 4 times.
mcdutchie@r.nf · 1 pts · 1y
I don't recall ever having to downgrade Firefox due to some bug, and I've been using it since the beginning.