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Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by wongarsu » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

SllX wrote: post #42

phakding wrote: post #23

With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.

Another satisfied user, but it comes with the caveat that my habits let me use it. Firefox really knows how to make memory leak and if I weren’t the type to aggressively close windows/tabs I don’t need and not keep the browser going 24/7 I would probably end up switching to Safari as my default.

I currently have 76 tabs open and last closed Firefox approximately 2 days ago. Firefox sits at about 5GB RAM usage and 3% CPU, which I find very acceptable.

In my experience Firefox handles a large amount of tabs very well, while Chrome tends to eat a lot more RAM in the same situation (while doing its best to hide that fact).

On the other hand there are some websites that will easily demand a gigabyte of RAM on their own, or that use excessive amounts of CPU time. Chrome handles those cases much better than Firefox. But those are outliers, and if I have to visit them I just open them in Chrome.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by erikpukinskis » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

phakding wrote: post #45

coffeefirst wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I keep trying to switch. The thing that stops me is it chokes on big single page apps. Arguably the problem is the sites being choked on (too much javascript) but there's not much I can do about that.

What would be an example of a "big single page app"?

Can’t speak for OP, but Slack is the first that comes to mind.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by joelthelion » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

phakding wrote: post #23

With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.

You're not alone :)

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by toyg » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

JimminyCrocket wrote: post #57

Youtube on Firefox for me is awful. I get constant buffering on 1080p+ content. Chrome is flawless. I have the same extensions on both browsers, curious if anyone else has experienced the same recently?

YT recently got choppier for me too, but I put it down to the layout changes rather than FF.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by ams6110 » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #32

Aardwolf wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure? Here is what "recommended by pocket", which automatically appeared recently, shows for me [edit: this is non-personalized as mentioned in a comment]: "buzzfeednews: Teachers are moonlighting as instagram influencers to make ends meet" trending "vox: a history of happiness explains why capitalism makes us feel empty inside" trending "theguardian: chanel shoes, but no salary: how one woman exposed the sca…

"Recommended by Pocket" is not "Highlights". Yes, I do disable the "recommended" stuff. When I enable "Highlights" on the new tab page, I see pages I spent a lot of time on lately: e.g. OpenWRT recommended hardware page, Coney Island water temperature page, and a page about the Graphwiz format. None of them are related to anything in Pocket (which I also actively use), or, thank goodness, buzzfeed.

I disable absolutely everything on the home page/new tabs.

My home page is ~/home.html in all browsers. Thus it's the same in Chrome, FF, w3m, whatever. Much easier than remembering how to set bookmarks/favorites in different browsers and keep them all in sync.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by fasafsafsf » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #24

nine_k wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Are you sure? Here is what "recommended by pocket", which automatically appeared recently, shows for me [edit: this is non-personalized as mentioned in a comment]: "buzzfeednews: Teachers are moonlighting as instagram influencers to make ends meet" trending "vox: a history of happiness explains why capitalism makes us feel empty inside" trending "theguardian: chanel shoes, but no salary: how one woman exposed the sca…

I have disabled all the Pocket stuff on my Firefox so I didn't see this, but it does not surprise me (even though it disappoints me) that the Mozilla Corporation is using the Firefox home page to push left-wing news.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by gkya » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

phakding wrote: post #23

With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.

Complaining, criticising, two different things. The latter is what's being done, and that is quite useful. Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless. I have a love/hate relationship w/ Firefox, but it's the best trade-off for a privacy-aware power-user that also wants a relatively stable browser which does not want too much fiddling. But too many negatives are present and if we do not point them out they wont be fixed. Fixing them is good for Firefox, and good for all of us FF users.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by phkahler » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

>> Improved graphics rendering for Windows users without accelerated hardware using Parallel-Off-Main-Thread Painting

Because so many people run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware?!?!?! And yet Wayland support is still not up to snuff.

I use Firefox almost exclusively, but Mozilla seems to have some strange priorities. It's not just them, it's a lot of people out there doing what they want instead of what's good for their users.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by mrspeaker » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

JimminyCrocket wrote: post #57

Youtube on Firefox for me is awful. I get constant buffering on 1080p+ content. Chrome is flawless. I have the same extensions on both browsers, curious if anyone else has experienced the same recently?

Yes, I notice this on my mac (mac book pro, 2015?): I'll even often open Safari just to watch youtube videos. It's fine on my Linux machine (X1 Yoga thinkpad) though.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by QasimK » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #4

Been waiting for “Reopen in Container” for awhile. It's very annoying when I Ctrl+T to open a new tab for a site and it takes me awhile to realize I forgot to open it in the right container tab. Glad to see the feature finally added!

Also a huge fan of this feature, I lit up when I read it. I hope there is a way to turn it into a keyboard shortcut.