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Re: Firefox 58

#11

Post by [deleted] »

djhworld wrote: post #5
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?

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Re: Firefox 58

#12

Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

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/

And since this is HN, the download people here are most likely to want is the Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Re: Firefox 58

#14

Post by dao- »

djhworld wrote: post #5
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?

Not yet.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432531

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430793

Re: Firefox 58

#16

Post by JohnTHaller »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #12
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/

And since this is HN, the download people here are most likely to want is the Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Not necessarily. Developer is the beta channel, after all, so many of us use Firefox stable as our primary. I use my various PortableApps.com packages to run separate channels without impacting each other for testing sites.

Re: Firefox 58

#18

Post by dao- »

technojunkie wrote: post #15

Did canvas fingerprinting blocking make it to this release? There were many articles saying it might or will happen and I can't find anything backing this up in the release notes. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefox+58+canvas+fingerprinting&t...

According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895 it's in 58 but wasn't added to release notes because it's disabled by default via the privacy.resistFingerprinting about:config setting.

Re: Firefox 58

#19

Post by throwaway181986 »

jherdman wrote: post #9
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.

Agree: I have similar performance issues with Google Inbox. E.g. I'm unable to attach files sometimes, and the interface is terrible. Still, I've switched to the new FF as my browser of choice and with the exception of those few sites it's great

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by Yizahi »

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.

It was never that slow as some people declare it to be.
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