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Re: Firefox 58

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Post by godelski »

callahad wrote: post #106
godelski wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone else get videos that show as like a pink or green screen and can still hear audio? I've experienced this on multiple machines with both Linux and Windows. Edit: Experienced this under FF57, unknown under 58 because I just updated it. This also usually happens with things like Facebook videos, but would less often happen with Youtube.

We've seen this on select AMD ( https://bugzil.la/1417442 ) and Nvidia ( https://bugzil.la/1422850 ) video cards. What GPU and driver version are you running?

I am using Intel, but Nvidia. On my current machine (Windows) I have a GeForce GTS 450 and the driver version is 23.21.13.8813. The linux one is Arch and has a 1060 Max Q, but I'm not at that computer and don't know the driver. Maybe selection bias, but I think it happens much less on the linux computer.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by zlynx »

sebazzz wrote: post #33
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.

I wonder how Firefox compares to Edge on a tablet like a Surface Pro. I really like the gestures and general touch and touchpad support in Edge and Edge should be quite efficient on battery life as long as you stay away from monsters like Facebook.

I have Firefox, Chrome and Edge on my Surface Pro 4. I prefer using Edge there because it's touch gestures seem to work better.

Firefox works just fine, but I feel it is more difficult than it should be to hit the tab close buttons with my finger.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by markdoubleyou »

scrollaway wrote: post #102
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.

I also switched back to firefox a few weeks ago and I'm not impressed. * Performance is really not that good. I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive). * Scroll-wheel to switch between tabs is gone. * No multi-tab management (shift/ctrl+click to select and move multiple tabs) like Chrome has * Firefox's UI on Android is utter garbage, so I haven't been able to switch there which defeats the point of h…

I had no idea you could select multiple tabs in Chrome. That's awesome--thank you!!

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by randomString1 »

scrollaway wrote: post #102
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.

I also switched back to firefox a few weeks ago and I'm not impressed. * Performance is really not that good. I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive). * Scroll-wheel to switch between tabs is gone. * No multi-tab management (shift/ctrl+click to select and move multiple tabs) like Chrome has * Firefox's UI on Android is utter garbage, so I haven't been able to switch there which defeats the point of h…

> I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive)

And YouTube. And Search. Hangouts, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Groups, everything else? I don't buy it for a second that it isn't on purpose, even with the polyfill justification.

You only make it easier for people like me to continue ignoring Chrome (if I even needed more reasons).

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by zlynx »

ac29 wrote: post #75
anderspitman wrote: post #32

Anyone running Quantum on Linux with a 4k monitor? I switched from Chrome for a couple months but the lag/jank/choppiness (especially when scrolling) finally drove me back to Chrome. Still loving the new FF on my HD screens though.

If you aren't setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true in about:config, Linux GFX performance is pretty bad. Its a night and day difference for me, and I haven't personally had any issues with it (I use relatively up to date kernels and Mesa on a variety of Intel GPUs, YMMV).

I was going to say that my Firefox on Fedora 27 works really well, but now I realize I did set that force-enabled setting. I have no idea how it works without acceleration.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by falcolas »

peterwwillis wrote: post #57
peterbe wrote: post #48

Don't know else to shout this from the roof tops, but it's a biiiig deal in terms of browsing happiness: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/another-win-for-tracking-protec... ^ That blog post was written when my Firefox Nightly was what is v58 today.

That speed comes at the cost of delaying or breaking existing sites, fwiw

IMHO, if the broken sites are broken because of their "need" to download trackers, intrusive ads, and any number of other dark-pattern based tools... we're better of with those sites broken.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by detaro »

butz wrote: post #26

Hoping for PWA support on desktop in upcoming versions.

What do you mean by PWA support? Service Workers etc already are there, and have been for quite some time.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by lod723 »

kbenson wrote: post #92
untog wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really, it works fine on Safari.

Which shared a lot of roots with Chrome. It's probably that they are optimizing for things that are fast in Chrome's JavaScript engine, which isn't necessarily what's fast in Firefox's Javascript engine.

Safari's JS engine is different than Chrome's though, no?

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by blinkingled »

bonsai80 wrote: post #100
blinkingled wrote: post #40

Since release 57 I have almost exclusively started using Firefox on Android. I know most quantum enhancements aren't yet in the Android version but something improved leaps and bounds at 57. The ability to use sync and various privacy enhancing extensions mean FF has a great appeal on Android. Now only if they can fix the remaining URL load delays and improve video playback compatibility it'll be a great experience.

I think and early version of the enhancements on Android are available in 58, and can be enabled by using the search bar to enter `layout.css.servo.enabled` and then switching it on.

Nope doesn't look like that setting is present in 58 on Android. It seems to be still disabled at build time.
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