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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by dralley »

jacquesm wrote: post #7

I have two main computers. One has for continuity reasons the old version of Firefox, the other the new one. The old version is so much more usable that I find myself using that computer much more frequently. It is rock solid with 100's of tabs open, all my extensions work and without silly restrictions on what they can and can not do and it uses a lot less memory. It's measurably faster too. I'm all for progress and…

Setting aside possible hardware differences between the two, try doing a profile refresh, because that's messed up.

I've also got a Firefox 52 installation lying around and the new version is noticably faster.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by shrikant »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #10
whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

Are there Chrome-only webapps you use that don't just work with a User-Agent switcher?

Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows.

I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by iaml »

whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

Google meet works in firefox (at least dev edition).

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by a1369209993 »

temac wrote: post #6

Ironically, it triggers on blog.mozilla.org :/

It's worth noting that this isn't actually inconsistent. If your browser does security properly, blog.mozilla.org saying "here, have some malware" doesn't matter because it will be ignored. If it doesn't, one more website serving (functionality-irrelevant) malware makes it that much marginally more painful to keep using a defective browser.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by jacquesm »

dralley wrote: post #11
jacquesm wrote: post #7

I have two main computers. One has for continuity reasons the old version of Firefox, the other the new one. The old version is so much more usable that I find myself using that computer much more frequently. It is rock solid with 100's of tabs open, all my extensions work and without silly restrictions on what they can and can not do and it uses a lot less memory. It's measurably faster too. I'm all for progress and…

Setting aside possible hardware differences between the two, try doing a profile refresh, because that's messed up. I've also got a Firefox 52 installation lying around and the new version is noticably faster.

Interesting. Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a shot. Hardware differences are negligible, in fact the machine where FF is noticeably slower is the faster machine. Especially start-up is super slow, takes a couple of minutes at times.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by spullara »

whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

I only use Chrome on Google. Safari for everything else. Best power usage and better protects privacy. No reason to not let Chrome see me use Google...

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by o10449366 »

whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

I sorely want to switch to Safari but I can't port all of my Chrome extensions over.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by mostlysimilar »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #17

Now if only the could fix firefox to not be the slowest and biggest battery draining browser on mac.

I believe this is related to using scaled resolution in macOS.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

I was able to achieve way better performance by changing this to `true` in `about:config`:

  gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque
Another note, performance seems way better when changing the following to `true`:

  gfx.webrender.all
  gfx.webrender.enabled
If anyone with deeper understanding of these options has any reasons why this is a bad idea I'm all ears. Otherwise it's made my experience way better.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by Drdrdrq »

jacquesm wrote: post #15
dralley wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Setting aside possible hardware differences between the two, try doing a profile refresh, because that's messed up. I've also got a Firefox 52 installation lying around and the new version is noticably faster.

Interesting. Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a shot. Hardware differences are negligible, in fact the machine where FF is noticeably slower is the faster machine. Especially start-up is super slow, takes a couple of minutes at times.

That is seriously weird. I don't have the fastest machine possible yet FF starts in a second or two.

Bigger problem are the apps that consume too much CPU and memory. Unfortunately there is no nice way to avoid their killing the whole system (Linux here). But other browsers are no better. The browser makers should realize they are delivering a multiuser OS and protect the resources accordingly.

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