Firefox 58

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Post by ortuman » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:39 PM UTC

Re: Firefox 58

#2

Post by dgritsko » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

Simply linking to the download page isn't particularly useful, IMO. Release notes are here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

Re: Firefox 58

#3

Post by shmerl » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:19 PM UTC

So what is the ETA for release of Webrender in Firefox now?

Re: Firefox 58

#4

Post by equalunique » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:22 PM UTC

dgritsko wrote: post #2

Simply linking to the download page isn't particularly useful, IMO. Release notes are here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

Agreed. From the release notes link you provided:

    *Performance improvements, including:

    Rendering graphics for Windows users by using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP)

    Loading pages faster by changing how Firefox caches and retrieves JavaScript*

These performance enhancements were both featured on HN. It's good news.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by djhworld » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:23 PM UTC

dgritsko wrote: post #2

Simply linking to the download page isn't particularly useful, IMO. Release notes are here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

> Rendering graphics for Windows users by using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP)

Does this mean OSX and Linux users are not using this method?

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by sctb » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:26 PM UTC

dgritsko wrote: post #2

Simply linking to the download page isn't particularly useful, IMO. Release notes are here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

Thanks! We've updated the link.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by k__ » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

Switched back to Firefox a few months ago and I'm blown away by the speed.

Last time I had this feeling after switching to Chrome from Firefox years ago, haha.

Besides videos everything works like a charm. Somehow some videos won't start and sometimes I get a message that the video format could not be read, never had this issue in Chrome.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by potch » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

I wrote up a more detailed look at some of what's in Firefox 58: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era...

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by jherdman » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #7

Switched back to Firefox a few months ago and I'm blown away by the speed. Last time I had this feeling after switching to Chrome from Firefox years ago, haha. Besides videos everything works like a charm. Somehow some videos won't start and sometimes I get a message that the video format could not be read, never had this issue in Chrome.

Likewise, but I've found the performance on a few key websites to be awful. Namely Facebook, and often Google Inbox.

Another consequence of switching has been difficulty in using things like my Apple TV or Chromecast (e.g. casting a video to my TV), or using my Mac's media keys to control Google Play Music.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by cpeterso » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:37 PM UTC

shmerl wrote: post #3

So what is the ETA for release of Webrender in Firefox now?

I don't know the ETA for WebRender in Firefox. The team is focusing on Windows first. You can follow WebRender development on the Mozilla Graphics team's blog:

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/webrender-newsle...