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That seems like a broad generalization, and for specialized software that requires newer hardware, you'd expect to find the rate of bitflips crashes much lower than 10%. You could argue that since Firefox is supported on older operating systems, longer than the support lifetime of the OS ^[https://www.theverge.com/tech/880781/mozilla-is-dropping-firefox-support-for-windows-7-and-8], it's likely Firefox is being used specifically to get the last bit of life out of the hardware before it gets trashed.