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Re: Firefox 70

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> Web socket inspector - In Firefox DevEdition, the Network monitor now has a new “Messages” panel, which appears when you are monitoring a web socket connection (i.e. a 101 response)

Yay, this is great news. Thanks guys! Nice to not have to revert to Chrome for websocket debugging.

Re: Firefox 70

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Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

Would this bring it up to par with safari's power consumption?

I don't know about other usages, but energy consumption while using YouTube is important to me (usually have something playing while I work) so I just did a quick measurement.

Safari 13.0.2 versus Firefox 70.0 versus Chrome 77.0

Playing the same YouTube video at the same quality (1080p) and watching Energy Impact in Activity Monitor while the video played, I saw averages of: Safari used 20, Firefox used 45, Chrome used 45.

So on that task at least Safari is still king, but Firefox is on par with Chrome.

Re: Firefox 70

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Does anyone know how Firefox Lockwise compares to other password managers? For example, can it store additional notes next to the password?

It does not allow notes, only login/password.

I use it to sync passwords with my phone. I like that I can use a fingerprint to unlock the file on my phone (instead of passphrase). I used to put silly passwords on sites I didn't care about (variants on a common password), but now I systematically generate a random password for all sites because there is no loss of convenience.

Re: Firefox 70

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post #23

I wonder, why they implemented Baseline JS interpreter in C++? Why not Rust?

I was under the impression that this was a side goal of the servo project. Of course now it looks like it is it's own thing: https://servo.org/

Does anyone know if servo is supposed to be related to Firefox in some way, or if it is always meant to be independent?

Re: Firefox 70

#46

Wow, blown away by how much better the new password manager is! If they add support for custom fields on each login, this could almost completely replace my need for a 3rd party solution.

Agreed. I'm thinking of cancelling my Dashlane subscription and moving to this Password Manager now.

Firefox's Lockwise App (on android) leaves a lot demanding though.

Re: Firefox 70

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems there are add-ons for this :-) https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict

This is the kind of thing that should be built-in instead of Monitor, Pocket, etc. :(

They help pay the bills, so I don't mind addons like pocket even if I don't use it.

Re: Firefox 70

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Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

Would this bring it up to par with safari's power consumption?

Safari still uses significantly less CPU while decoding video.

Re: Firefox 70

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would this bring it up to par with safari's power consumption?

I don't know about other usages, but energy consumption while using YouTube is important to me (usually have something playing while I work) so I just did a quick measurement. Safari 13.0.2 versus Firefox 70.0 versus Chrome 77.0 Playing the same YouTube video at the same quality (1080p) and watching Energy Impact in Activity Monitor while the video played, I saw averages of: Safari used 20, Firefox used 45, Chrome us…

I just checked with the Intel Power Gadget on a 2015 MBP 10.14.6, iGPU only, same video at 1080p, package power consumption (CPU + iGPU):

~6,4W average in Safari 13.0.3

~8,6W average in Firefox 70

Re: Firefox 70

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The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

Please vote and/or speak up (constructively, no "mee too" comments please) on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687

> Opened 19 years ago

Edit: I commented on Bugzilla I hope everyone does the same.

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