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Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by binaryanomaly »

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 .

Not sure what exactly your issue is but in general Firefox was never faster than it is now - since electrolysis support (multiprocess windows).

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by sp332 »

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 ?

According to http://www.slideshare.net/SamsungOSG/duel-of-two-libraries-c... Skia is faster than Cairo in most benchmarks, but the settings are very fiddly and it's easy to get incorrect results if you're not careful. It's owned by Google though, so I'd expect it to be possible to get good results. Also it says the API is not stable? That sounds like a big downside. I hope the speed gains are worth it.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by nautical »

binaryanomaly wrote: post #11
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 .

Not sure what exactly your issue is but in general Firefox was never faster than it is now - since electrolysis support (multiprocess windows).

Not sure , currently with one tab open chrome is reporting about 1.4% and firefox about 4.8% . Same page opened on both .

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by BoysenberryPi »

I see the WebGL improvements and how on their blog they market it as "Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming" and I really have to say, as a game developer, I really don't want the future of gaming to be on the web. This is more than just Javascript hate. It's hard to monetize games if you aren't going free to play with microtransactions. And really, on a personal level, I just like downloading games and playing them offline. I'm not always near internet access.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#16

Post by debaserab2 »

Side note: I absolutely love the format that Firefox does their release notes in. They're organized really well and do a good job of speaking with the right language for the audience of each change.

I can't think of another product that does release notes as well as them. Usually your hunting down ticket numbers (often on a private tracker) that are referenced from a changelog.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#17

Post by Zecc »

wnevets wrote: post #3
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".

You probably got a more relevant result by searching for "E10s" than if you had searched for "Electrolysis", too.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by dblohm7 »

majewsky wrote: post #4
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.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Quantum_Render

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by [deleted] »

majewsky wrote: post #4
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.

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