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  • They could be upgrading hosting infrastructure - sometimes this requires servers to be shut down or restarted. They might also be applying database changes such as migrating data from one server to another, or updating the structure of the database to improve performance or support new features.

    Honestly, there are quite a number of reasons for planned downtime.

    Unplanned downtime is a different story. Usually that’s because something unexpected went wrong and there will be engineers trying to get things back up and running ASAP.









  • I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.

    For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.

    And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.

    I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the average user isn’t going to come up across these differences.