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The WebGL demo "After the Flood" linked in their release summary post is really beautiful. I don't play games but this technology is very impressive. Try it for yourself if you're on an updated Firefox (51+): https://playcanv.as/e/p/44MRmJRU/
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FWIW, Service Workers allow content to be downloaded in the background and to be made offline. Mainstream gaming will never catch on the Web. But Mozilla is working on WebVR to create an open and distributed platform for VR ( https://mozvr.com ). You'll be able to publish VR content in seconds and traverse from world to world. WebGL2 is exciting for that space.
Service Workers allow content to be downloaded in the background and to be made offline. In practice, service workers seem to mostly be drive-by installs of forms of hostile code. Look at "about:serviceworkers" in Firefox to see what's running. Did you ask for any of those? I have, excluding sites where I have a login: * https://www.youtube.com , https://plus.google.com I've never signed into Youtube, or Google, on t…
Tab switching has improved a lot. I also love the new zoom level indicator in the URL bar. Very innovative. Nice.
From 2014: "Choose Firefox now, or you won't get a choice later" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12579163
So now I'm back on Chrome. Felt good to be on FF for awhile, felt like I was preserving freedom or whatever. But now that I'm on Chrome, I won't switch back until Firefox actually becomes a better browser.
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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 .
They are the biggest reason why I use an extension to stop or unload background tabs.
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).
This release seems to help on the UX side of things regarding logins, along with improved efficiency. Some of the highlights: * Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them * Firefox will save passwords even in forms that do not have “submit” events * A warning is displayed when a login page does not have a secure connection * Improved video performance for users without GPU acceleration fo…
The WebGL demo "After the Flood" linked in their release summary post is really beautiful. I don't play games but this technology is very impressive. Try it for yourself if you're on an updated Firefox (51+): https://playcanv.as/e/p/44MRmJRU/
On my laptop, something is very wrong with touchpad controls and I seem to be mostly stuck looking straight down or straight up :(