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by marcan_42 1592 days ago
> But as a design pattern shouldn't we design our products to do their core functionality as much as independent from any anomalies that can happen?

When expected anomalies happen, like telemetry being down or taking a long time to respond. Firefox is certainly already designed like that.

This was not that. This was a bug. There is no magical design that avoids bugs.

> This is almost akin to me if Tesla rolls out an update and the car decides to pull over to the curb to do the update, while you are driving to your job or worse to hospital with an emergency.

Firefox is not a car. You're going to have to get Mozilla a lot more funding if you think the browser should be designed with extreme resilience in mind as required for life-critical applications. If a health enterprise is using Firefox in a life-critical role, that's kind of their responsibility, not Mozilla's.