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I love Firefox, I use it everyday, I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config. At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year. What is the most realistic future for Firefox?
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Just did some tests on Firefox 83 and DOM reflow time grows exponentially with the depth of DOM tree. With grid elements of depth 10 single reflow takes seconds on my Ryzen laptop while on chromium is not noticable at all.
Can you post a link to a test case?
My advice; stop reinventing the wheel, and if you must reinvent the wheel, make sure its at least as round as the last one. I've been using FF since Netscape, and it used to be a few settings and we're off. Now, you have to edit policies.json to get updates stopped, autoconfig.js and firefox.cfg to disable telemetry, legacyUserProfileCustomizations to use userChrome.css to get anything like a proper menu system. 'Loc…
> autoconfig.js and firefox.cfg to disable telemetry You can change this in the configuration dialog, and once disabled, that setting will be preserved through Firefox upgrades. You shouldn't need to change this repeatedly. > legacyUserProfileCustomizations to use userChrome.css to get anything like a proper menu system. By "proper menu system", do you mean having the menu bar always visible? You can enable that with…
No thanks.
MS pulled that shit.
It's _my_ computer. That's a principal reason I installed Phoenix in the first place.
I don't auto-update because people running projects do what for me are stupid things like break all the add-ons, knock holes through my adblocking, remove key settings, add non-removable addons, etc., etc., and they do it without warning or option.
Not to mention the UI changes which annoy and confuse elders that I support.
I don't have time for supporting forced beta testers (family & friends, I'm a home user) so auto-update stays off for projects that think it's their device one is using.
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Why do you mean by non-native? If it's janky it might "just" be a performance issue. If you could grab a profile from profiler.firefox.com that would be much appreciated
By non-native I mean non-native. I am definitely not going to do that, I will simply keep using Edge.
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Your best options are: * Use Firefox; * Consider Pocket Premium; * Subscribe to Mozilla VPN.
Does Pocket Premium go directly to Firefox? If so I'm probably in (even if I don't use Pocket :-) Firefox VPN isn't available for me yet.
I love Firefox, I use it everyday, I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config. At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year. What is the most realistic future for Firefox?
> I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config Vivaldi is a configuration juggernaut in my experience. Reminds me of the glory days of Opera. It has a wonderful vertical tab bar too - built-in .
browser ux really seems like 'one step forward, two backward' over the last two decades.
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It is unfortunately closed source, however.
vivalidi is open source https://vivaldi.com/source you can't contribute to it like you can with something on github, but the source is open none the less
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GPU acceleration is not a magic bullet it seems. In our case drawing large SVGs suddenly becomes really slow when GPU rasterization is enabled. Chrome has the same problem. I really hope we will see more polishing in this area and maybe a cooperation between Chrome and Firefox developers?
Thing is, when I play the same video with VLC which uses HW decoding, it doesn't even break a sweat. So I think there might be something wrong on the browser part...
hardware decoding, no ads, buffering as i please
Is anyone else worried Firefox on Android is becoming increasingly unusable? How well supported is it my Mozilla I wonder. I often find pages render as blank pages until I refresh, and scrolling will often hang for multiple seconds. I was playing "Jackbox Games" (which is played via the web and PC), and I found those of us on Firefox found the text boxes were broken. Just downloading PDFs was broken for several weeks…
"Firefox now uses more modern techniques for allocating shared memory on Linux, improving performance and increasing compatibility with Docker." Finally, now I can use Firefox again. I have an older box, about 10-years old :-) I see noticable speed improvement on linux. I only use few extensions with dark theme, like uBlock/uMatrix/Dark-Reader. I've been using "Ungoogled-Chromium" for the past few years. Its nice to…