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Firefox 27 Released

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Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by blinkingled »

AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #55
blinkingled wrote: post #38

I am using FF on Android (both phone and tablet) with sync and great addons like adblock/self destructing cookies/lastpass and am mostly a happy camper. Mozilla has resolved most of the performance issues barring one - compared to Chrome or stock browser the time it takes for FF to go from link tapped to page loading started is a bit annoyingly high. Many times after tapping a link it just sits there doing nothing or…

The video isn't online yet, but at FOSDEM this weekend there was a talk about "Firefox on Android". The guy said that it's actually adblock that's causing the long delays.

Thanks, I will experiment with disabling adblock and see if gets better.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by itry »

ianbicking wrote: post #57
itry wrote: post #54

Im on FF 24 and there seems to be no button to update it. I thought FF nowadays updates itself automatically?

It does, but if you want to update immediately go to About, there's a button there to update.

No, there is no button. Maybe because its "Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint"? Did they fork Firefox and disabled updates?

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by nfoz »

nirvdrum wrote: post #23
nfoz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would much rather a long-term-stable product with fewer security vulnerabilities that didn't need frequent updates.

Check out the Firefox ESR builds. They're supported for 1 year. Not super long-term, but better than 6 weeks: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/

That's great, I didn't know this existed. Thanks.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by cpeterso »

iagooar wrote: post #34

Some time ago I was a Firefox user. Then Chrome came out and I first started using it for free-time browsing, while still developing on Firefox. Later, I decided to fully migrate to Chrome. I've decided to change it again, so I'm going to give Firefox a try during this month. For now, it looks really nice, performance seems to be quite good and the feeling of getting at least a small part of my digital life away from…

Firefox's new Australus UI will be merged to the Aurora channel in just a couple days, if you'd like to try it out (without installing the bleeding edge Nightly channel).

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by blinkingled »

fpgeek wrote: post #49
blinkingled wrote: post #38

I am using FF on Android (both phone and tablet) with sync and great addons like adblock/self destructing cookies/lastpass and am mostly a happy camper. Mozilla has resolved most of the performance issues barring one - compared to Chrome or stock browser the time it takes for FF to go from link tapped to page loading started is a bit annoyingly high. Many times after tapping a link it just sits there doing nothing or…

Firefox is both better and worse than other browsers in dealing with intents. On the worse side, unlike some other browsers Firefox doesn't raise intents for redirected URLs, missing some opportunities to match appropriate apps. I believe the underlying issue is that too many redirect situations are ambiguous (especially if you might not be the default browser). I mostly deal with this with an external wrapper (Brows…

> you get the option of opening it in those apps (for YouTube, the Play Store, Twitter, etc.)

Great find, I hadn't noticed that one before! It does make things better.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by agumonkey »

AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #52
swannodette wrote: post #20

I see no one has mentioned Firefox 27 is the first major browser to have ES6 generators enabled by default - http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/24/es6-generators-and-c... . Callback hell begone!

I realised yesterday that "yield" in Python (and I guess javascript) is kind of a baby continuation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation ). It can be used to create coroutines and turn async code into sync (looking) code. Really powerful. Anyone interested should learn what continuations are (in Scheme).

There is some debate about continuations and generators :

http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/02/25/on-generators

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4690

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by erichurkman »

valarauca1 wrote: post #2

The second bullet is important, having up to date TLS is a big deal in today's security/spy conscience world. Its possible to currently get (if you monkey around in about:config), but default settings are powerful since the average user won't bother. And I mean average-user type average user, not average hackernews reader/poster.

How's My SSL? [1] now reports "Your SSL client is Probably Okay." for Firefox 27. Awesome!

[1] https://www.howsmyssl.com/

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by ndesaulniers »

JanneVee wrote: post #11

The glsl shader editor isn't announced in the release notes. It is supposed to be included in FF 27. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/live-editing-webgl-shaders...

And I just ported WebGL Inspector to FF, though it's been waiting in the AMO review queue for a while...

Anyways, powerful new tools for developing WebGL.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by ndesaulniers »

clarry wrote: post #59
lingben wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now firefox beats the pants off chrome for memory usage - that is why I'm using it.

Still it can't deal with memory pressure, and will just eventually oom & crash.

What's your host environment and browsing habits like (lots of tabs open, many pinned tabs, lots of video, flash video)?

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by dmunoz »

AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #52
swannodette wrote: post #20

I see no one has mentioned Firefox 27 is the first major browser to have ES6 generators enabled by default - http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/24/es6-generators-and-c... . Callback hell begone!

I realised yesterday that "yield" in Python (and I guess javascript) is kind of a baby continuation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation ). It can be used to create coroutines and turn async code into sync (looking) code. Really powerful. Anyone interested should learn what continuations are (in Scheme).

A good resource for this is the control operations chapter [0] in Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation [1]. It start off with some motivation, then covers generators and continuations, with mention of threads and coroutines. The base motivation and most code is for an interpreter implementation, but it isn't impossible to follow if you're not familiar with such material.

[0] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/Control_Operatio...

[1] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/index.html

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