On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:32:49PM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 28/04/17(Fri) 16:20, Anders Andersson wrote: > > [...] > > From what I read, it seems as if the problems are mostly from when you > > try websites which are heavy on javascript. > > If javascript was the problem others OSes would suffer as well. > > > Let me butt in as a grumpy > > not-so-old man and point out that there's nothing even remotely > > "secure by default" by even allowing javascript, considering its > > horrible track record. > > So better run javascript on your phone or any other OS, right? > > > Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the disinterest with browser > > performance? > > No. The reason is always the same: somebody has to do the work. It's > not easy, it takes time and we all have other things to do. >
I've got to totally disagree that other OS's don't have a big problem with firefox. A while back I bought an old box with 4GB and windows 7 installed. I then took advantage of the free one year upgrade to Windows 10. I have EXACTLY the same problem in Windows as in OpenBSD! Suddenly firefox just crashes. I am right now using 6.1 stable. Firefox has changed in one way for the better. (Thanks to whoever, wherever for that!) It now takes a long period to actually finish crashing and always comes up clean or with a restore. Occasionally the last tab is lost. Which is probably a good thing. Watch top as it very slowly lets firefox crash. Or I should say as firefox crashes itself, not top. :-) Firefox has been reliably crashing for years on many different boxes I have had, so this is nothing new to me. I can't write anything except the most simple javascript, but having "form letter" javascript from 30-35 companies on a website and making all of that interact probably is just not up to the skills of the IT staff (or they would just write the code themselves without any extra junk in it.) As far as YouTube, except for that brief period where they went with Flash, I have had no trouble with watching videos for several years Frankly, trying to get more people to start using OpenBSD is a waste of time. I have tried repeatedly and failed. The correct users of OpenBSD are going to bring themselves to using it. Just like I brought myself. Crash! Chris Bennett
