Comment 2 for bug 2026309

Thanks for asking, but a year later? Some sort of anniversary celebration? I don't even remember what that bug was about. The new problem is that Firefox just fails to show up... But I'm pretty sure it isn't the firefox package, but one of the lower-level display packages.

When I "upgraded" to Numbat things got much worse than with the previous version, where the main problems were just cursor things. I spent a while trying to report the new problems, but eventually gave up and settled for tedious workarounds. The worst new problem appears to involve initialization of the virtual displays. If the initialization succeeds, which happens rarely, then everything is okay. If not, then I have developed a long serious of workarounds. Sparing you the details, but it starts with <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get a new window where I can resize in two steps... If that doesn't work...

Nothing I can recommend to anyone who doesn't have a hacking background. I see it as a kind of mental exercise, but not a system that I could use or recommend for anything serious.

Mozilla has other problems, but I think the main one remains the financial model. The things Mozilla implements are NOT things I want, but there is no way to donate for the features I actually do want. Unable to remember the last time anything in Firefox changed in a way that I would have been glad to have contributed to the change...