Gonna be honest...after using Firefox almost exclusively for the last 10 years whenever I had a choice, I'm ready to give up on it. I don't expect all the bells and whistles (and privacy compromises) of the big commercial browsers, but Firefox has decided to take a path that is actively awful. It's not just awful on Wikipedia (where I know logged-in users with lots of preferences and scripts are always going to be slow), it is awful on every website I go to, and it crashes on a multiple-times-a-day basis. It does this on all three of my computers. I've been trying to stay loyal and look at the bigger "free knowledge" bit...but I have had six crashes today and I'm done. I hear this a lot from people I know outside of Wikimedia, and I've been told its unreliability is why several companies have decided against adding it (or have removed it) as an acceptable alternate browser.
So no, I do not think it would be a good idea for anyone, let alone the Wikimedia Foundation, to advocate on behalf of this software. Risker/Anne On 3 September 2017 at 03:22, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > > After Firefox and Chromium, there's a bunch of open source web browsers > > listed on [2], but a brief spot check showed many as being Linux only > > (or outdated Mac builds). One that looked promising was Brave[3], though > > it's a relatively new browser and I would need to do more research > > regarding #3. > > I've been using Brave for a couple of months occasionally, and it seems > to work pretty well. It has (some) adblocking in default config, and > some other privacy-enhancing settings, which are probably not very > important for Wikimedia sites but may either break some other sites or > make them bearable :) > It's pretty young, so I don't think we can say much about security > record yet - IIRC it's based on Chromium, and it's updated pretty > frequently, and it's easy to use (though the UI might be a bit more > spartan then others for now, and not many extensions available - but for > ex-IE users it may not be an issue). > > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
