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Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by untog » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:25 PM UTC

jacurtis wrote: post #113

amimetic wrote: post #101

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A scaled resolution is now default on most MacBooks. I haven't noticed battery problems but certainly seen RAM usage at least double that of Chrome and considerably above Safari.

If you are worried about battery performance, I can personally attest that Firefox is better than chrome in terms of battery performance. Still Safari is the best in terms of battery endurance (its a VERY SIGNIFICANT difference). But then again its Safari, so you have to decide whether you want a capable browser (FF/Chrome) or a battery efficient one.

IMO Safari is a very capable browser. I switched to it long ago and found I didn't miss anything from Chrome. Experimenting with Firefox now because I love the containers feature, I hope we'll see it in Safari some day.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by JohnJamesRambo » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #29

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #24

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Why do you still use it?

For the lack of better alternatives (I need some specific extensions, and I don't want to use Chrome). I also use alternative browsers like qutebrowser but it cannot replace everything I need to do.

Have you tried Brave? I'm really liking it.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by chadk » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:27 PM UTC

pyr0hu wrote: post #112

Is it just me, or the font used by FF is changed on OSX? It's a bit crispier and it's not antialiased

yeah it is like everything bolded... not just in the menubar, but I think the rendering of webpages is affected too. I feel like I am on a Windows machine. ️

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by gruez » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:28 PM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #171

stronglikedan wrote: post #136

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+1 for Bitwarden - it's been fun to watch that product unfold.

I’ve wanted to try BitWarden, but haven’t because I couldn’t find a way to use it as a standalone app without creating an account on its site or without having to self-host it. I prefer a solution that allows me to choose where to sync the password database.

keepass?

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by shmerl » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

Is there any progress with GPU accelerated video decoding / encoding in the Linux version? Now that WebRender is in place it should be possible?

Without it, any WebRTC video conferencing applications are very CPU heavy, which cripples them on laptops especially.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by 24gttghh » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:32 PM UTC

ddtaylor wrote: post #111

I hope someday we'll see Duck Duck Go partner with Firefox as the default engine.

This is the case on Linux Mint. I can't even set Google as a search provider if I wanted to! Too bad Duck Duck Go is simply re-branded Bing results, and they kinda suck.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by winstonsmith » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

shaklee3 wrote: post #56

I remember about a year or two ago, there was a lot of press on HN about a new Firefox engine that made it extremely fast. Ever since then, I've only seen negative comments about Firefox. Did that just not pan out as much as people had expected?

My experience has been very positive. I recently noticed that Firefox had become slightly slow to recover my session at start-up. I investigated and found I had over 1800 tabs open. With a few hundred tabs open start-up is amazingly fast. I never even think about performance otherwise because it has ceased to be an issue.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by kbd » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

kemenaran wrote: post #47

Handoff on macOS, finally! \o/ Just tested opening Firefox on iOS, and the "Open page in Firefox" pops up in the Dock of my Mac. Neat. (It is advertised as also working with Mobile Safari.)

Does any of this work with Firefox on Windows/Linux? It would be nice to have this kind of syncing across all platforms.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by jamiek88 » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

yuchi wrote: post #87

> Support for Handoff on macOS: Continue browsing across devices. Pick up where you left off with iOS (via Firefox or Safari) on Firefox on Mac. OH YES! Finally!

This alone makes me consider Firefox again!

Handoff (when it works)is just so useful.

Still a little flaky even for apple apps so interested to see how it works on Firefox.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by snazz » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

bubblethink wrote: post #180

move-on-by wrote: post #147

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I've pretty much made the same changes. I was luke-warm on the switch from chrome to Firefox until I started using containers and CookieAutoDelete with those containers. I have a 'Google' container that preserves google cookies for when I log into gmail (transition in progress)- but otherwise google cookies get automatically deleted. There are a handful of other sites I wish to stay logged into - like github, slack,…

Last I checked, containers weren't working properly, and I gave up on the idea because false sense of security is worse. My test website was web.whatsapp.com. I think this is the tracker, although I didn't really look too much into it ( https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8... Edit: fixed link

Have you tried that again since September 2017? I can’t seem to reproduce the issue on my machine. (By the way, the link includes an extra underscore. The correct one is https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8... )