Mozilla Firefox

Bug #684982
Comment #81

Comment 81 for bug 684982

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In Mozilla Bugzilla #372650, Werner-fink-w (werner-fink-w) wrote on 2020-03-21:

#81

(In reply to Hans-Peter Jansen from comment #77)
> Dear Mike,
>
> with all due respect, but imagine, you suffer from such an issue for a good part of this century, and now, you admit, fixing this issue was a spare time dedication. Just to be clear, it doesn't lower your achievement, but it sheds a really bad light on the *missing* Firefox development control. This is accompanied with *degrading* this issue to an **enhancement**, with what most of us comprehend as a **major bug**.
>
> Sure, we all know, which OS gets the most attention. But be assured, that for a couple of us Linux Hardcore users (in other words, those, that suffer **most** from this bug since **ages**) such experiences burrow into one's subconscious, and that harms the project as a whole.
>
> Please understand, that those of us, that stick with Firefox still, don't stick with it purely for technical reasons. A lot of us know about the **political dimension** of the last free browser engine. My users and me use Firefox, because we don't want to increase Google's influence even further, *despite* bad performances like this. Again, no pun intended to you personally. You're the **hero** for the moment in this small corner of ontology. Some of us may have a picture of the bigger side of it, some obviously don't! It's a pity, that those doesn't read this.
>
> I sincerely hope, that the fix will work for both situations, where it failed before with different behavior: session restore from a restart of Firefox and session restore from the window manager, and that it will *keep* working. Wayland is lurking around the corner already...
>
> Hopefully, you don't feel offended. You shouldn't.
>
> Unfortunately, I have to wait for the 75.0 release to test this thoroughly on about 30 very different openSUSE systems. A backport failed miserably.

I really second this. IMHO this is/was a **major** bug even if LInux user are a minority group as usability also matters for minority groups

(In reply to Hans-Peter Jansen from comment #77)
> Dear Mike,
> 
> with all due respect, but imagine, you suffer from such an issue for a good part of this century, and now, you admit, fixing this issue was a spare time dedication. Just to be clear, it doesn't lower your achievement, but it sheds a really bad light on the *missing* Firefox development control. This is accompanied with *degrading* this issue to an **enhancement**, with what most of us comprehend as a **major bug**. 
> 
> Sure, we all know, which OS gets the most attention. But be assured, that for a couple of us Linux Hardcore users (in other words, those, that suffer **most** from this bug since **ages**) such experiences burrow into one's subconscious, and that harms the project as a whole. 
> 
> Please understand, that those of us, that stick with Firefox still, don't stick with it purely for technical reasons. A lot of us know about the **political dimension** of the last free browser engine. My users and me use Firefox, because we don't want to increase Google's influence even further, *despite* bad performances like this. Again, no pun intended to you personally. You're the **hero** for the moment in this small corner of ontology. Some of us may have a picture of the bigger side of it, some obviously don't! It's a pity, that those doesn't read this.
> 
> I sincerely hope, that the fix will work for both situations, where it failed before with different behavior: session restore from a restart of Firefox and session restore from the window manager, and that it will *keep* working.  Wayland is lurking around the corner already...
> 
> Hopefully, you don't feel offended. You shouldn't. 
> 
> Unfortunately, I have to wait for the 75.0 release to test this thoroughly on about 30 very different openSUSE systems. A backport failed miserably.

I really second this. IMHO this is/was a **major** bug even if LInux user are a minority group as usability also matters for minority groups