Firefox 51.0

#1

Post by binaryanomaly » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 5:59 PM UTC

Re: Firefox 51.0

#2

Post by stuaxo » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:39 PM UTC

Flac playback and more work on E10s, this is a pretty sweet release.

Switching to Skia on linux for rendering is interesting too, I wonder how this affects rendering performance and correctness vs cairo ?

Re: Firefox 51.0

#3

Post by wnevets » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:45 PM UTC

stuaxo wrote: post #2

Flac playback and more work on E10s, this is a pretty sweet release. Switching to Skia on linux for rendering is interesting too, I wonder how this affects rendering performance and correctness vs cairo ?

I had to look up what E10s was.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

>In Mozilla documentation "Electrolysis" is often shorted as "e10s".

Re: Firefox 51.0

#4

Post by majewsky » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:46 PM UTC

stuaxo wrote: post #2

Flac playback and more work on E10s, this is a pretty sweet release. Switching to Skia on linux for rendering is interesting too, I wonder how this affects rendering performance and correctness vs cairo ?

So they use Skia now? I would have expected them to rather switch to WebRender.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#5

Post by nautical » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:47 PM UTC

Was using Firefox from a very long time , but for some reason recently Firefox is very slow on my machine . Even chromium starts up slowly . Google Chrome opens the fastest and is very light on resources .

Re: Firefox 51.0

#6

Post by pyed » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:50 PM UTC

I tested the FLAC playback, it plays only the first 9 seconds!

Re: Firefox 51.0

#7

Post by farresito » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:50 PM UTC

nautical wrote: post #5

Was using Firefox from a very long time , but for some reason recently Firefox is very slow on my machine . Even chromium starts up slowly . Google Chrome opens the fastest and is very light on resources .

You are not alone. I also stopped using Firefox six months ago or so because it was incredibly slow. I'm keeping an eye on it to see if the performance improves, but unless something big happens, I don't think I will go back to it.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#8

Post by zobzu » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:51 PM UTC

nautical wrote: post #5

Was using Firefox from a very long time , but for some reason recently Firefox is very slow on my machine . Even chromium starts up slowly . Google Chrome opens the fastest and is very light on resources .

try refresh. ive no issue with firefox. uses less memory too

Re: Firefox 51.0

#9

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:51 PM UTC

Nice to see WebGL 2.0 finally coming to FF as well, congratulations!

Re: Firefox 51.0

#10

Post by nautical » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 7:52 PM UTC

farresito wrote: post #7

nautical wrote: post #5

Was using Firefox from a very long time , but for some reason recently Firefox is very slow on my machine . Even chromium starts up slowly . Google Chrome opens the fastest and is very light on resources .

You are not alone. I also stopped using Firefox six months ago or so because it was incredibly slow. I'm keeping an eye on it to see if the performance improves, but unless something big happens, I don't think I will go back to it.

With every release I try it out in hope of improvements , but have not seen major gains .