Improving Firefox stability on Linux
I noticed that the two bugs they linked [1] [2] are both due to the distros introducing bugs by applying patches -- one for hurd support (!) -- that were not shipped by the upstream projects that the distros were repackaging.  As we have discussed earlier [3] I think the way distros inject themselves into this software development process produces these bad outcomes due to getting the incentives wrong.<p>[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1679430" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1679430</a><p>[2] <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633467" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633467</a><p>[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26216917" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26216917</a>