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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by Narishma »

capableweb wrote: post #43
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

The best I ever did for performance was switching away from macOS. Sure, Safari and Chrome is really fast on Mac hardware/macOS, but nothing beats the performance of Firefox on Linux.

> nothing beats the performance of Firefox on Linux

Firefox on Windows does.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by scoopertrooper »

fzil wrote: post #154
bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

I did the same test on my M1 Air. Safari is using 40% CPU while Firefox is 55%. Not sure why there's such a large difference between your results and mine.

Another M1 datapoint,

Chrome: ~20% Safari: ~35% Firefox: ~45%

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by helb »

cyberlab wrote: post #76
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.

> PDF forms now support JavaScript I thought they always required JS to be enabled. I have JS disabled by default in uBlock Origin, and the inbuilt Firefox PDF viewer doesn't work unless I whitelist and enable JS temporarily for the page. Only then can I read my PDF.

Mozilla's PDF viewer is written in JS – it's literally called PDF.js: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/.

This new feature means you can run JS embedded in PDF… in PDF.js.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by zapt02 »

fzil wrote: post #154
bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

I did the same test on my M1 Air. Safari is using 40% CPU while Firefox is 55%. Not sure why there's such a large difference between your results and mine.

My guess is that the OP doesn't have hardware acceleration for Firefox on his GPU configuration. You probably don't either with your numbers. I have about 3-4% CPU usage on GitHub.com using Firefox, and my GPU is at about 20% load from the 3D being drawn.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by nofinator »

bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

This is a nice simple test.

But note for others: you need to be logged out of GitHub to see the animation. Or open GitHub in a private window.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by walls »

ffpip wrote: post #152
walls wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are several pages on AWS that do not show it. For example, most CloudWatch pages. I think it has to do with iframes.

You can shift+right click if a page (like the ones on AWS) block right clicks. You can shift+right click normally too, even when a page doesn't block right click.

It's not about blocking or hijacking right-clicks. The menu option simply isn't there when the right-click happens in an iframe.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jug »

cardanome wrote: post #49
globular-toast wrote: post #2

I thought FTP support had been removed a long time ago for some reason! I have very fond memories of FTP but I guess its time has come. I probably haven't used it for 10 years at this point.

I used it yesterday. I regularly use FTP at work, well preferably SFTP but it does happen. While we have a automatic deployment pipeline for our own projects, lots of our customers that host externally still use good old FTP. I don't think FTP is ever going to fully die. It is still a typical way to deploy your files when using a shared web hosting that does not offer SSH.

We’re kind of crazy and use WebDAV. Big upsides besides upload support were built in support in Windows Explorer, running over a single port / http, and https support.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by tvb12 »

baq wrote: post #124
dave5104 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.)

the right click screenshot is one of the most useful features i didn't know i need; it's super convenient to not have to precisely draw the rectangle to share a meme or report a bug.

Choosing to screenshot the entire page seems to be cropping off most of the right side on every site I've tried so far. Is that a known bug? It would be really useful otherwise.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by fzil »

zapt02 wrote: post #164
fzil wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did the same test on my M1 Air. Safari is using 40% CPU while Firefox is 55%. Not sure why there's such a large difference between your results and mine.

My guess is that the OP doesn't have hardware acceleration for Firefox on his GPU configuration. You probably don't either with your numbers. I have about 3-4% CPU usage on GitHub.com using Firefox, and my GPU is at about 20% load from the 3D being drawn.

after reading your comment I checked again and realized that activity monitor has a column for %GPU as well under the CPU tab. So here's the eyeball average after watching the GitHub page for about a minute.

Firefox 88 (no extensions, private mode):

CPU% 55 (avg) 61 (peak)

GPU% 65 (avg) 77 (peak)

Safari (no extensions):

CPU% 33 (avg) 40 (peak)

GPU% 33 (avg) 40 (peak) <- same numbers for both CPU and GPU in safari.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by hu3 »

bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

Windows 10 here.

Chrome ~2.5% https://streamable.com/flb8rh

Firefox ~3.5% https://streamable.com/dkrp0w

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