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Firefox 27 Released

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Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by nnethercote »

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…

If you have an old Firefox profile hanging around, please reset it first: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi...

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by nnethercote »

clarry wrote: post #88
ndesaulniers wrote: post #69

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

Having just one gigabyte of physical RAM, I run Firefox with a 512M rlimit (the OpenBSD default), as I have to reserve some space for other software too (and swap is painfully slow on the spinning disk). As far as browsing habits go, I do usually have quite a few tabs open (currently I've got 38, though they're not all loaded; I don't think I often go much over this often). None are pinned. Video is disabled, and I'v…

512 MiB rlimit and you usually have 10s of tabs open? I'm not surprised you're having problems; that's a pretty unusual and challenging configuration. Do other browsers behave any better?

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by Wohui »

pekk wrote: post #60
iamjustin wrote: post #45

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Oh my god, that's ridiculous. Nobody spends half an hour a day waiting on auto updates. The update downloads in the background and takes just a few seconds to install after restarting the browser.

Then Flash prompts for an update, then Acrobat Reader, then Java...

Is this at work?

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by dflt »

paulirish wrote: post #99
cbaleanu wrote: post #79

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So glad I am not the only one noticing the filter change. That additional click to display the filtering options that Chrome introduced really made me start using FF more and more for work. I think this dumbing-down approach Google is doing with all their apps and websites will only alienate more and more professionals out of using their platform.

(Chrome DevTools team here). We cleaned up the filtering as it was totally inconsistent across all panels. So now it introduces one more click, but felt like generally that extra click was OK. I think we can still improve the UX, however. Which panels do you most use filters on (and for what?) Console, Network?

Hey Paul, I'm trapped on Chromium-30.0.1599.101 (same goes for similar Chrome version) because DevTools freeze for ~3 minutes after GWT's SuperDevMode recompilation on newer Chrome/Chromium. There is huge regression in performance after Chromium 32.x.xxxx.xxx. Chromium-30.0.1599.101 is the latest version without this problem on my distro.

I've tried to report this but you guys don't have proper bug tracker only form in the about menu.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by ris »

mda wrote: post #159
ris wrote: post #142

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I think you put too much faith in the fables that surround what the chrome security model does and does not do. In short, no, they wouldn't.

Really? Care to give an example?

I don't really want to have to go into process security from scratch, but I have previously commented on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6811368

"Sandboxing" and "process separation" are not magic smoke.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by ZoFreX »

ndesaulniers wrote: post #147
bad_user wrote: post #77

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The problems I've been having in Firefox are with badly behaved apps - with memory leaks and stuff. Firefox manages memory better than Chrome, but when a tab leaks it can freeze the whole browser. Still, this happens rarely enough that it isn't an issue for me, plus Firefox is much better at keeping many tabs open. I did disable Flash and now I have to "click to play" - but I'm doing the same thing in Chrome too, bec…

> tab leaks it can freeze the whole browser Process per tab is _almost_ ready: http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-f... You can play with it by setting `browser.tabs.remote` to true in about:config.

I don't even want process per tab, I'd be happy with something much simpler: Tell me which tab is causing Firefox to use 100% CPU! This happens fairly frequently with lots of tabs open (I guess I use a lot of websites with really bad javascript) and the only recourse is to either quit Firefox entirely and re-open it, or play a guessing game.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by Cowicide »

According to the release notes Flash is fixed. But after updating, I still can't get Flash to work with Firefox on my Android 4.4.2 Nexus 7. Flash works fine with Dolphin though. Bummer.
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