Dang! Looks like Tab Hiding API didn't make it for 58.
Firefox 58
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Re: Firefox 58
#22Switched 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.
Yeah, the browser has gotten snappier. But then I pop open the dev tools and they're unbearably slow - like I simply can't do real dev work in FF anymore, have to use Chrome. It may be that I tend to do a lot of development with Web Components, which FF still doesn't have natively (though Custom Elements are live in 59/nightly, right?!), but either way it seems like a failing of the tooling that it beachballs for 5-10s at a time when inspecting normal valid html.
Re: Firefox 58
#23Add to Home screen button on mobile is great!
Easy way to spot progressive web apps.
Move URL bar to bottom and we have almost perfect browser.
Re: Firefox 58
#24Switched 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.
Yeah, it positively was, and it would lock the browser up with misbehaving tabs. I managed to use Fx50 (or so, I forget the exact release) for about a day before going "nope, back to Chrome, it might chew batteries like crazy but at least it's fast."
Firefox has significantly improved and deserves praise for it. Rewriting history to always be at war with Eastchromea is unnecessary.
Re: Firefox 58
#25Still on Firefox 56. My crucial addons still don't work. Still wishing Mozilla made FF56 into an ESR.
Just wanted to say you're not alone, I'm on 56 for the same reasons.
Re: Firefox 58
#26Hoping for PWA support on desktop in upcoming versions.
Re: Firefox 58
#27Switched 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.
Yeah, the browser has gotten snappier. But then I pop open the dev tools and they're unbearably slow - like I simply can't do real dev work in FF anymore, have to use Chrome. It may be that I tend to do a lot of development with Web Components, which FF still doesn't have natively (though Custom Elements are live in 59/nightly, right?!), but either way it seems like a failing of the tooling that it beachballs for 5-1…
This!
If I have at least one tab with Dev Tools open, then FF becomes unbearably slow.
Will check if it is fixed in FF58 though.
Re: Firefox 58
#28Any updates on U2F support with major sites? Google, FB etc.?
I haven't tested on FB, but it works with Github.
IIRC you have to enable it, as it was experimental also, didn't work with Google Accounts.
Re: Firefox 58
#29Switched 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.
Yeah, the browser has gotten snappier. But then I pop open the dev tools and they're unbearably slow - like I simply can't do real dev work in FF anymore, have to use Chrome. It may be that I tend to do a lot of development with Web Components, which FF still doesn't have natively (though Custom Elements are live in 59/nightly, right?!), but either way it seems like a failing of the tooling that it beachballs for 5-1…
Yep, true that.
The browser itself is very snappy an enjoyable now (apart from high res videos, which drive up CPU load a lot).
But the devtools are unbearably slow. They hog down performance to a crawl.
I use FF as my main browser now, but when I need to do some web debugging I switch over to chrome.
Re: Firefox 58
#30Dang! Looks like Tab Hiding API didn't make it for 58.
Looks like it's slated for 59 though:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725
Didn't read much, but hopefully it allows hiding without unloading.
Patiently waiting..