(emphasis mine) Yes, that is also what I meant.
What kind of test is that? You’re intentionally crippling your competition in order to appear less bad. Do you also want to run this test on a Pentium II running Windows 98 from a 5400RPM hard disk and 16 megabytes of SDRAM? No, of course not, because that is not the realistic case that we are comparing against.
The point that I was trying to make is that if I sit down on my, or any other, relatively-recent relatively-up-to-date PC, running whatever OS and whatever browser, all of these sites will (almost certainly) work just fine. I.e. if I log on to a windows PC and open Edge and navigate to any of these sites, it will work. If I use an apple computer and open Safari, it will work. Even if I venture into my local hacker’s den and operate one of their Linux machines with Firefox it will work. I can ask for anyone of my friends phones, and it will work (this is very often good for a few laughs on my behalf when Sailfish lets me down once again). It will work on most any tablet. It will work on my TV’s built-in browser. If I had one of those fancy refrigerators with a built-in browser it would work on that.
say you do get a browser engine update and it does diddly-squat
To your point, yes, sure, I agree. I don’t care how it is fixed, so long as it is fixed, and this being Jolla’s custom browser, the onus is on them to fix it. If they don’t want to maintain it then they should just have shipped plain Firefox in the first place. (we would have gotten plugin/adblock support as a bonus).