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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by cletus »

akvadrako wrote: post #70
cletus wrote: post #58

Still no update on super-high CPU usage of Twitch on Firefox, an issue that has been open for at least 4 years [1][2]. I really want to like Firefox and I want there to be viable alternatives to Chrome but when playing video back at 360p (not joking) grinds my 1.5 year old Macbook Pro to a halt on a popular website... I just can't use it. I don't know if this is a video codec issue, a CSS/JS issue that Twitch manages…

Is it multi-user video chat? Firefox can't do this efficiently and it's also a problem with other tools like Jitsi.

Well, that's worse because it's a bigger issue. If you look through some of the bugs (there are several) you'll see suggestions of turning off chat to mitigate the issue but this raises even more questions:

1. Why don't users have to do that with Chrome?

2. While it does help, the video-without-chat CPU+GPU usage is still higher than Chrome's CPU+GPU usage for video-with-chat.

If that also applies to Youtube or other services and has been open for 4+ years then... yeah, big problem.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by teddyh »

iorrus wrote: post #67
88840-8855 wrote: post #35

I just switched from FF to Brave. Despite the unnecessarily built-in adblocking (I prefer blocking on router level + 2nd layer via ublock) and the BAT stuff, it is a good browser. It feels so fast and snappy. I wished FF was as fast. Macbook Air M1

Yeah I moved away from FF as well after they got too political, very happy with Brave.

That sounds like an “out of the frying pan into the fire” kind of thing.

Re: Firefox 88.0

#83

Post by [deleted] »

ravenstine wrote: post #16
drewda wrote: post #3

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.

I have an idea. Why not allow embedding a full browser engine inside of a PDF, complete with tabs and extensions? I hate having to leave Adobe Acrobat in order to read my Gmail, so I think this feature could be really useful. Anyone who builds a PDF can include their own custom browser that their users will love.

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Re: Firefox 88.0

#85

Post by judge2020 »

kkaranth wrote: post #36
51Cards wrote: post #17

>The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. Odd, this is the only place I accessed it from. Not a big deal as it's still on the context menu and also can be added as a tool bar item but I am curious the rationalization behind this change. That seemed like a great place to have it to me.

I typically use Ctrl+Shift+S for this

If you use Windows, newer versions (v1809 and newer) have win+shift+s as a neat region-select screenshot tool that sends the image to your clipboard.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by cpeterso »

51Cards wrote: post #17

>The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. Odd, this is the only place I accessed it from. Not a big deal as it's still on the context menu and also can be added as a tool bar item but I am curious the rationalization behind this change. That seemed like a great place to have it to me.

There is still a "Take Screenshot" menu item in the context menu when you right-click on a web page.

Re: Firefox 88.0

#88

Post by judge2020 »

Y_Y wrote: post #69
jorams wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Especially on pages that block right-clicking Note that, in Firefox, you can always get to the context menu using shift-right click.

Thanks! This always bugs me. Maybe not disabling right-click has legitimate uses in things like games, but I only ever seen to see it used spitefully.

It's more 'override right click' and is useful for eg. Google Docs to use application-specific context actions. Unfortunately I agree that most sites override it just to disable it, though.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by cpeterso »

cletus wrote: post #58

Still no update on super-high CPU usage of Twitch on Firefox, an issue that has been open for at least 4 years [1][2]. I really want to like Firefox and I want there to be viable alternatives to Chrome but when playing video back at 360p (not joking) grinds my 1.5 year old Macbook Pro to a halt on a popular website... I just can't use it. I don't know if this is a video codec issue, a CSS/JS issue that Twitch manages…

A good way to get traction on a Firefox performance bug is to provide a profile. You don't need to install any new software. Instructions for recording a Firefox performance profile:

https://profiler.firefox.com/

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by dave5104 »

matsemann wrote: post #45
51Cards wrote: post #17

>The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. Odd, this is the only place I accessed it from. Not a big deal as it's still on the context menu and also can be added as a tool bar item but I am curious the rationalization behind this change. That seemed like a great place to have it to me.

When I first tried to use it, I knew of the feature but couldn't find it. They probably have metrics on it being underutilized so they want to bring it forward a bit or so. But I think the whole "page actions" button is too hidden. I think screenshot belongs there, and the issue is that most people don't know without being told that "page actions" is something that even exists. It's great btw to take screenshot of lo…

> the issue is that most people don't know without being told that "page actions" is something that even exists.

I'm a daily Firefox user for quite a while now... thanks for telling me this exists! Never really looked into what those 3 dots were.

(That being said, I always right click to trigger the screenshot option from the context menu.)

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