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Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by scholia »

StRoy wrote: post #137
scholia wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and uses a quarter the memory somehow. I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. It consumes more RAM on my Windows PCs, though I confess I use more tabs than are viable in Chrome....

> I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. That's only in comparison to Safari and Edge. If you open enough tabs to cause memory issues on Chrome, Firefox would have frozen and slowed down to a crawl before filling the memory, anyhow, and electrolysis still isn't in a state where it could change that: there's still one process for the renderer so if enough intensive webpages are run your web browsing exp…

That's not what I find. How are you measuring memory use?

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by scholia »

twblalock wrote: post #109
scholia wrote: post #100

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> and uses a quarter the memory somehow. I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. It consumes more RAM on my Windows PCs, though I confess I use more tabs than are viable in Chrome....

Chrome is a resource hog for me, on macOS and Windows. But Firefox is only slightly better in my experience. I last tried it about 3 months ago.

You can clear out memory use in Firefox by restarting it. It doesn't create a firestorm of reloads that cripple your PC because it only reloads tabs when you click on them.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by rocky1138 »

patates wrote: post #38
rocky1138 wrote: post #29

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

I thought with the WebAssembly we can have (sort of) both? (not really binaries because it's bytecode and not really on the web because it runs somewhat in a different context, but then again, are web workers not on the web? Perhaps it's hard to define what "on the web" means).

Yeah, I meant OS-specific binaries. For performance reasons I'm way more interested in important services being delivered by Linux binaries than Chrome or Firefox binaries.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by piyush_soni »

Is anyone else facing trouble in updating Firefox from the 'Help->About' dialog? Whenever a new Firefox version is released, this dialog promptly gives me the new release, but this time it has decided to stick to 50.1.0 (while going to the Firefox download site directly downloads 51.0)

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by twblalock »

ngokevin wrote: post #128
twblalock wrote: post #118

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Firefox was released in 2004. It did a great deal to break up IE's market share at that time. I remember it very well, and I liked it a lot back then. But it is now 2017, and when I decide which browser I should use, I choose one that is good today, and I don't care about the blows its parent company struck for or against freedom 13 years ago. I also disagree with the assertion that Firefox is better for security or…

Security and privacy isn't only prevalent on browser frontend features. There are battles happening within every standardized Web specification. Without more than one major player, one company would be allowed to dictate the level of security and private within every API. There are also initiatives that push the Web forward in security like with Let's Encrypt or Do Not Track. Mozilla also advances into new areas of t…

Ideas and values don't matter if you don't have enough power to make a difference in the world.

What has Mozilla actually done in the past few years to push the web forward in security or ensure that a web specification protects user freedom?

Things that Microsoft or Google or Apple were also trying to do don't count -- what good things did Mozilla succeed in doing that the other browser companies opposed?

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by Esau »

LegNeato wrote: post #125
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.

Fun fact: Alex Keybl and I based them on 1Password's release notes ( https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/OPM4 ). Here was the old style: http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_r... And the new style: http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_r... The new style has since been tweaked a bit since we left Mozilla. They also always had a list of all bugs fixed (for examp…

Props for giving props.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by ggchappell »

> Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language

Can anyone explain that last bit. I know WebGL 2 goes with GLSL ES 3.0, but that seems to be the same ol' GLSL with a few tweaks. Is this "new sophisticated shading language" just overblown PR, or is there an actual new shading language?

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by roryokane »

dagurp wrote: post #35

Does anyone else think the login popup is a bit annoying? Is there a way to go back to the way it was before?

The save password pop-up? You can disable it for all sites in the Firefox settings, the same as in previous versions. All they changed was making it recognize some login forms that it didn't recognize before; it's not a totally new feature. Are you seeing false positives with it?
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