Why Is Firefox For Linux So Terribly Broken - commentary

While sociology is generally not something that I associate with Firefox and Linux per se, I found this comment piece interesting nonetheless.

I have deleted comments containing sexual material, racism, and religious material not suitable to a family website open to all ages. All others I have left intact. I believe in leaving plenty of rope around and letting people use it.

Many of the commenters clearly didn’t read the article or my subsequent comments carefully. Let’s reviews:

1. This happens on three different systems with two very different hardware configuration. It’s not bad RAM.
2. Each system runs a different distro. It’s not distro-specific nor desktop enviornment specific.
3. Crashes running 1.5.0.4 continued with Flash and Java removed. It wasn’t just Flash (thought that was a contributing factor) and it wasn’t Java.
4. It’s not just me. About 10% of the commenters report similar problems. A 10% failure rate in a major piece of code is not acceptable by any standard…. Source: oreillynet.com