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Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by bonsai80 »

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).

I use it as much as I can, although for development tasks Chrome performs much better for me and certain sites load slower. I'm looking forward to a year from now when servo/quantum/whatever is in there. In the mean time though, I'm thankful to have a non-commercial party in the mix and am happy to use it.

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Post by dashundchen »

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.

I noticed this around version 49. Through process of elimination I found out it was caused by two plugins I had: Privacy Badger and Adblock Plus.

Switched to uBlock origin and removed the other two, performance is normal again.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by thrombos »

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 .

This is because Chrome stays in memory even when closed where Firefox doesn't.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by realusername »

olegkikin wrote: post #25
realusername wrote: post #22

> Remove Belarusian (be) locale Anyone knows why they removed it by curiosity?

Looks like they didn't find a volunteer to do the translations. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304743

That's very sad, I've heard the language is slowly dying and replaced by Russian, it's probably harder to find younger people contributing.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by bobajeff »

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #15

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 offli…

You don't have to use JavaScript. (See emscripten, binaryen etc.)

The Web is basically just a runtime you don't have to host your files on a server if you don't want. You can distribute them via CDs if you prefer. Also you can use Service Workers now.

That said monetisation all depends on the product not the medium. Just look at Minecraft. It didn't use ads or microtransactions and yet it was run from a Java applet in a browser.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by rocky1138 »

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #15

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 offli…

Don't worry, binaries will always be around. The future of the majority of gaming is not on the web.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by TD-Linux »

debaserab2 wrote: post #16

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.

Blender has my favorite release notes: https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/

Though that's cheating a bit because it's easier to get pretty pictures of features in Blender.

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