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Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by EpicEng »

ambrop7 wrote: post #281
lugg wrote: post #100

Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…

On all my Linux systems (NixOS), Firefox lags/skips while scrolling all the time. It's a deal breaker for me so I use Chromium, which scrolls without lagging. I read it is because Firefox does not use HW graphics acceleration on Linux, in general. This is both on a computer with the NVidia driver and one with the open-source radeon driver.

This is the exact reason I have not been able to switch back to FF, but on Windows. Enabling HW acceleration did not fix it.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by joveian »

asadotzler wrote: post #276
andrepd wrote: post #244

How do the new privacy blocker settings interfere or conflict with uBlock?

You mean the enhanced tracking protection? There's no interference or conflict with uBlock.

It can at least be confusing and there might be conflicts. I'd recommend turning off the built in tracking protection if using other tracking.

They might have fixed the particular issue, but at one point I had stupidly enabled "strict" tracking protection and used that with uMatrix and found that it broke something major (I forget what, maybe reCaptcha) even when the internal tracking was disabled on a per-site basis. Very confusing and unnecessary to have the internal tracking protection if you already use a blocker.

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Post by samdixon »

jamiek88 wrote: post #197
JD557 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding the other replies, I believe that Firefox is extremely slow in OS X only if you use a scaled resolution. That seems to be a known issue, but for some reason it's taking a long time to be solved.

Scaled resolution is default on most/all retina MacBooks which is unfortunate.

For me it is only slow if I go outside the default scaled resolution. On my 2015 13" mbp I use the default scaled resolution to get around the performance issues.

Another work around if you want to use a non-default scaled resolution with firefox is to use firefox in non retina mode. I prefer not to use this as it makes the experience blurry.

I do wish they would fix this issue though.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by saghm »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #46

I don't understand why Firefox doesn't include an option to download the .deb package instead of tar file for Ubuntu and Debian during release announcements. The market share is already shrinking and why make it harder for people to install or upgrade Firefox? Chrome does it. Why can't Firefox do that as well?

Out of curiosity, don't most systems that use .deb files already have Firefox in the package manager? I was under the impression that Debian now has mainline Firefox (instead of Iceweasel) as of a few years ago

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Post by lucb1e »

newscracker wrote: post #155

I’m a diehard Firefox user and supporter, but with every release there are still things I wait on the WebExtensions support to improve: 1. There’s still no full featured Tab Mix Plus possible with the current APIs. That’s been a big bummer for some years now. 2. The most downloaded session management extension now is still not as rich and good as the old XUL extension Session Manager (from mozdev). 3. I probably have…

I also come to the comments on every Firefox release to see if anything improved on that front. We've been waiting for years indeed, and I guess the only way to get the functionality back is to maintain a set of custom patches (forking basically)... Still disappointed about pushing web extensions with no alternatives available at the time, and if I had looked into the future, I'd have thought the crystal ball was broken as there is still no compatibility years down the line.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by fulafel »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #46

I don't understand why Firefox doesn't include an option to download the .deb package instead of tar file for Ubuntu and Debian during release announcements. The market share is already shrinking and why make it harder for people to install or upgrade Firefox? Chrome does it. Why can't Firefox do that as well?

This would not get automatic updates and would be bad for security.

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Post by lucb1e »

Flimm wrote: post #94

No one mentioned WebP support yet! This is great news, Firefox will now feel faster on all the sites that use WebP. Safari is the last major browser to hold out.

What's so great about webp? I haven't heard about it. Is it one of those jpeg competitors? Because I did see a blog post recently that said none of the the things people are coming up with are more than marginally better despite jpeg's age.

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Post by 333c »

pselbert wrote: post #179
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you going to transition to from Gmail?

Not the original poster, but I would recommend to anybody that they move to Fastmail.

I've been on Fastmail for just over a year and it's been very reliable and effective.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by jedberg »

I recently made the transition back to Firefox too, like a lot of other folks in here it seems. Containers makes working with all my AWS much easier, and the containers isolating Facebook are great.

One problem though, that I can't solve, is that every once in a while I want to log in with Facebook, like for AirBnB. But I can't, because the cookie only lives in the Facebook container, but I can't add AirBnB as a hostname to the Facebook container.

Has anyone solved this?

Edit: I just solved this. You have to disable the built in Facebook Container extension and then it works as expected.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by skrowl »

newscracker wrote: post #155

I’m a diehard Firefox user and supporter, but with every release there are still things I wait on the WebExtensions support to improve: 1. There’s still no full featured Tab Mix Plus possible with the current APIs. That’s been a big bummer for some years now. 2. The most downloaded session management extension now is still not as rich and good as the old XUL extension Session Manager (from mozdev). 3. I probably have…

Have you looked at https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ ?

It's basically XUL Firefox w/o WebExtension crap (they played with WebExtensions and bailed).

Made by the same people who make Pale Moon, it's basically a successor.

The main downside, of course, is the XUL extension authors are unlikely to keep updating their extensions now the XUL is dead on OG Firefox.

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