Matisyahu's Blog

I woke up this morning with a splitting headache and sore throat (resulting in a croaky voice and difficulty speaking without eventually needing to cough heavily) so I thought it would be best to have today off to recover. After waking up, I then checked to see whether Google had released an update for Chrome which they did where Chrome was updated to version 132.0.6834.84 and along with the update there was also an update from AdGuard to version 5.0.183 – I haven’t noticed any regressions for either Chrome or AdGuard so things are working well.

I’ve given Firefox another try (the most up to date version being 134.0.1) – I really do want to give it a try but I tried to add my credit card to my autofill synchronisation on my phone but I found that it couldn’t be added so then I checked on Firefox on my laptop to see if I can manually add it but there is no way to do that. Unrelated to that issue, there is also the other feature that I love which is ‘Google Lens’ which allows you to copy text out of an image or select text in an image then translate it which I use on a regular basis. Firefox developers really need to deal with these shortcomings.

Am I going to make a bug report? I gave up trying to do that when over 15-20 years ago I reported memory leaks resulting in the browser being hopelessly inefficient (yeah, I know it is a long time ago but if I have a bad experience I’m less inclined to give an organisation a second chance). Long story short, the bug report was ignored by Firefox developers then it was closed off with no one interested in fixing it – it wasn’t until years later when they started losing their market share that the developers finally admitted there was a problem and finally started fixing these memory leaks. Long story short, if I am going to spend time reporting an issue then only having it to be ignored then I’m not going to waste my time reporting the issues I have then having to wait 10 years until Firefox market share hits rounding error numbers for something to happen.