Why do you use the unstable builds of Pale Moon?
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This is not for tech support! Please do not post tech support questions in the "Development" board!
Please make sure not to use this board for support questions. Please post issues with specific websites, extensions, etc. in the relevant boards for those topics.
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New Tobin Paradigm
Why do you use the unstable builds of Pale Moon?
Since there seems to be some confusion about the unstable builds and a general lack of catching several bugs that made it to release.. I want to know why you use the unstable version.
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therube
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Re: Why do you use the unstable builds of Pale Moon?
(browsers in general, not specific to PM...)
For me, usability & stability are of prime importance.
These days, I do not find any browser that meets those (what should be minimal) criteria.
That said, I use what I'm comfortable with.
Then I dabble with browsers that may do certain things better then what my comfortable browser does.
(on the FF end, more specifically...)
I treat FF as a trash browser.
Don't care what I do to it, don't care what I throw at it.
If it works, it works, if it breaks, it breaks. I don't worry myself about it.
I no longer consider FF to do anything in the users interest.
I no longer expect FF to act (UI/UX) in a reasonable manner.
I no longer expect Mozilla to fix "usability" bugs.
I do not expect FF to be stable.
Given times, & FF update cycle, just about every time you turn around, a new version is out, & with that something breaks...
So to me, at this point with them, whether you are on Release or Nightly, there really isn't a whole lot of difference.
That said, at some point in time, Nightly got a fix (finally) to a bug that was really bugging me.
So at that point, I jumped to Nightly, & have just remained there (considering I don't consider FF to be particularly usable or stable, & I treat it as a trash browser).
So my reason, for (FF) unstable (Nightly) was because of a fix that came through there (now since in Release) & there just isn't any particular reason to drop back to Release.
So, every so often, I'll hit a bug, or some "feature" that bugs me to no end, & file a Bug report.
I don't particularly expect any action to be taken on any Bug report, but still do (report, sometimes).
(Never used PM unstable. Maybe I should?)
(I think I went overboard, & not exactly what you're looking for. But as no one else...
.
Guess I just should have said, oh, I try to help out by keeping an eye open for things that are wrong so that they can get fixed in a timely manner - before turning up in a release
.)
For me, usability & stability are of prime importance.
These days, I do not find any browser that meets those (what should be minimal) criteria.
That said, I use what I'm comfortable with.
Then I dabble with browsers that may do certain things better then what my comfortable browser does.
(on the FF end, more specifically...)
I treat FF as a trash browser.
Don't care what I do to it, don't care what I throw at it.
If it works, it works, if it breaks, it breaks. I don't worry myself about it.
I no longer consider FF to do anything in the users interest.
I no longer expect FF to act (UI/UX) in a reasonable manner.
I no longer expect Mozilla to fix "usability" bugs.
I do not expect FF to be stable.
Given times, & FF update cycle, just about every time you turn around, a new version is out, & with that something breaks...
So to me, at this point with them, whether you are on Release or Nightly, there really isn't a whole lot of difference.
That said, at some point in time, Nightly got a fix (finally) to a bug that was really bugging me.
So at that point, I jumped to Nightly, & have just remained there (considering I don't consider FF to be particularly usable or stable, & I treat it as a trash browser).
So my reason, for (FF) unstable (Nightly) was because of a fix that came through there (now since in Release) & there just isn't any particular reason to drop back to Release.
So, every so often, I'll hit a bug, or some "feature" that bugs me to no end, & file a Bug report.
I don't particularly expect any action to be taken on any Bug report, but still do (report, sometimes).
(Never used PM unstable. Maybe I should?)
(I think I went overboard, & not exactly what you're looking for. But as no one else...
.Guess I just should have said, oh, I try to help out by keeping an eye open for things that are wrong so that they can get fixed in a timely manner - before turning up in a release
.)