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Firefox 62.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by callinyouin »

vmsp wrote: post #2

I really want to change to Firefox but a while ago it was a huge battery drain on my mac. It had something to do with it not using CoreAnimation, I think. Does anyone know if this is still the case?

I've been using FF on my 2015 MBP as my daily driver for at least 2 years and haven't had any problems. I mean, it's a battery hog for sure, but no more so than Chrome or any other modern browser with dozens of tabs open. Every once in a rare while flash will cause CPU usage to spike like crazy, but that isn't much of a problem anymore for obvious reasons. YMMV though I guess, it seems like a lot of people are still having performance issues, probably depending on which extensions are in use.

Not sure on the use of CoreAnimation.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by Iem3ohvi »

bhauer wrote: post #9

When are containers going to graduate to a built-in feature rather than an extension?

All the heavy lifting for containers is built-in. It's just the mapping of tabs to containers, the creation/disposal of containers and UI parts that's managed through the extensions because users do have different preferences and use-cases in that area. E.g. they may want automatic rule-driven assignment of domains to containers except when either blah blah holds or when manually overridden.

The built-in minimal and completely manual UI can be enabled with privacy.userContext.enabled = true

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by bratao »

I'm a die-hard Firefox fan. While all my colleagues develop in Chrome, I'm the weird one who uses Firefox and always catches some problem in rendering when testing.

But recently I installed an 4K monitor. I use the Latest Windows 10 and have an GTX 1050 graphic card. The Firefox on this resolution is VERY slow. I have no problem in Edge or Chrome. Please, if any dev is around, check this use case.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by gsa »

bhauer wrote: post #9

When are containers going to graduate to a built-in feature rather than an extension?

Containers used to be the other way around, baked into Firefox and then moved to an extension last year. It's better that a power user feature is not a part of the default installation.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by nine_k »

Aardwolf wrote: post #5

"Firefox Home (the default New Tab) now allows users to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights" Yay, I always wanted to see more spam in it! (had the "fun" experience of needing to figure out again how to disable new spammy things from new tab page on mobile despite having already done so before)

"Highlights" is not "spam", it's pages you willingly opened and browsed through for long enough. or something. It's not useless if you're prone to rummaging through recent history trying to find that site you looked at 4 hours ago and closed, but want to find and reopen now. I wish I better understood the criteria to highlight, though.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by christophilus »

bratao wrote: post #13

I'm a die-hard Firefox fan. While all my colleagues develop in Chrome, I'm the weird one who uses Firefox and always catches some problem in rendering when testing. But recently I installed an 4K monitor. I use the Latest Windows 10 and have an GTX 1050 graphic card. The Firefox on this resolution is VERY slow. I have no problem in Edge or Chrome. Please, if any dev is around, check this use case.

++ This was my experience, too, running FF on an older Mac (2014, I think) with a big retina screen.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

#17

Post by TremendousJudge »

Aardwolf wrote: post #5

"Firefox Home (the default New Tab) now allows users to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights" Yay, I always wanted to see more spam in it! (had the "fun" experience of needing to figure out again how to disable new spammy things from new tab page on mobile despite having already done so before)

...there's a little cog wheel at the top right?

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by Karunamon »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #17
Aardwolf wrote: post #5

"Firefox Home (the default New Tab) now allows users to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights" Yay, I always wanted to see more spam in it! (had the "fun" experience of needing to figure out again how to disable new spammy things from new tab page on mobile despite having already done so before)

...there's a little cog wheel at the top right?

Defaults matter. Firefox has this annoying habit of constantly devising new “interesting” things on the new tab page. It’s to the point where you need to install an add on to override it to avoid constant surprises.
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