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"Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We'll fix it soon. We want the same things. We're on the same team. There were dozens of oopses. Hundreds maybe?"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
Disclosure: I work at Google but not on this. This was linked from the Bugzilla bug.
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Our bad reputation is not entirely undeserved, some of us are not as well behaved as others.
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9 minutes ago: > Since this has now been posted to HN, I'll be locking this thread. This bugtracker is a work place, not a discussion forum. We have a bad fame.
> This bugtracker is a work place, not a discussion forum. that's actually an excellent way to frame what a bugtracker is actually for. it is about workers getting shit done and its optimized for the people who work the issues. it isn't optimized for the people posting comments on issues. and the fact that a lot of users that have never had to deal with fixing software bugs think it looks like a forum website would e…
The above phrase also explains why Social Media is not a bug-tracker. ^_^
Another reason to stop using Google. Don't waste the opportunity! Switched to DDG ages ago, and even though it's not amazing, it's already better than Google. Although, if we're honest, searching these days is absolutely atrocious everywhere. Any keyword search will only net you ads or "top X" articles full of SEO garbage most likely written by AI at this point...
For people who don't know them yet: use DDG bangs. For example "!m restaurant [citynmae]" will immediately bring you to Google maps, "!w chemistry" will open Wikipedia etc. Super easy and powerful :)
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They probably did. However wanted to screw Firefox users the same way as the YouTube slowdown.
There's a much easier explanation. They didn't test on it at all. It's a browser with sub-5% market share. There are folks in Google who personally test on firefox and believe in it ideologically as an important peace of the web ecosystem, but that's not a company policy and detecting Firefox bugs does not gate feature release for most projects.
Google is tracking the incident here: https://status.search.google.com/incidents/hySMmncEDZ7Xpaf9i... Disclosure: I work at Google but not on this. This was linked from the Bugzilla bug.