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And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.
And Lynx before that!
And echoing pages with Telnet before that.
Firefox 26 is released
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Re: Firefox 26 is released
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
First of all, it's hard to tell how much memory a process uses. If you're on Linux or on OS X and you're using "top", there's difficulty in interpreting the results. For example right now my Firefox 26 with about 20 tabs is being reported by "top" as using 2190MB VIRT and ~1030MB RES. VIRT reports the total amount of memory allocated, including memory that's shared between processes, including memory-mapped files, in…
> And if you want to claim that it's a memory hog, then you need to take a look at how it behaves on top of memory constrained systems. I can confirm that Firefox regularly runs out of memory and dies on a system with a total of 1G of ram and 512M data segment limit.
And I can confirm that if I load 6 tabs in Firefox and go to work, when I come home it will have eaten 2G of my memory, the next morning it will have eaten 5, and a couple of days later nothing on my system will run without disk thrashing because Firefox is sitting at 96% memory usage.
Re: Firefox 26 is released
#103> Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed \o/
This was available already in the previous release, but disabled by default (media.gstreamer.enabled)
Re: Firefox 26 is released
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> I think only every 10 versions should be news Numbers aren't intrinsically important – what would be really nice is saving the announcements for specific features of note.
> Numbers aren't intrinsically important True, so yeah I stand corrected about that. Now, can we tell Mozilla this and get off this ridicul^H^H^Hrapid release cycle?
I actually prefer it this way rather than a big code drop every couple years.
Re: Firefox 26 is released
#105Re: Firefox 26 is released
#106Is there any way to update Firefox on Linux without resorting to ugly methods like running it as root and using update UI, or downloading the mar file manually and running the updater CLI tool with that file (as sudo / root)?
The issue is that I use stock Mozilla build (I prefer it to Iceweasel on Debian), so I just placed it in /opt, but I don't want to give write permissions to the firefox directory to my primary user (it's kind of bad security wise). Because of no write permissions, updating UI can't update the browser naturally, unless I run it as root. And manual mar + updater method isn't nice either.
Potentially there can be some better ways for updating:
1. Firefox can work with policykit and request authorization for updating (if user has it - it can ask for password). That's much better than running as root.
2. updater CLI tool can detect all the settings, channels sources and etc. from Firefox local DBs, and instead of forcing the user to manually grab some mar file, it can go and perform all that automatically. updater can be run with sudo still, but avoid all the manual steps.
Both these methods would be much neater than what I usually do now.
Re: Firefox 26 is released
#107I wished they would improve the PDF viewer.
How would you like it improved? I rather like it as it is--I've completely stopped using Adobe Reader, in fact--but I'm curious to know what you think is missing.
It never renders anything as well as external viewers for me. Often missing things, more aliasing, etc
Re: Firefox 26 is released
#108Anyone with memory problem with Firefox? My FF is currently using 2G memory while I only have 13 tabs opened and most of them are just plain simple pages. I am sure it will keep sucking up memory until I do restart. This problem is not new. Is there a memory leak problem with FF?
First of all, it's hard to tell how much memory a process uses. If you're on Linux or on OS X and you're using "top", there's difficulty in interpreting the results. For example right now my Firefox 26 with about 20 tabs is being reported by "top" as using 2190MB VIRT and ~1030MB RES. VIRT reports the total amount of memory allocated, including memory that's shared between processes, including memory-mapped files, in…
In my case, everytime I open a new tab, the mem usage goes up. But when I close a tab, it does not necessarily go down, or just goes down a little. So the overall trend is it goes up, until it can no longer function (freezed up on my old 4G computer). Then I have to kill and restart it.
I use OSX's Activity Monitor to see the mem usage.
Re: Firefox 26 is released
#109Firefox 3: Yay! Firefox 3.6: Let's see what's new! Firefox 4: oooh pretty UI (at least that's what most thought) Firefox 26: sigh another one? I think only every 10 versions should be news. Since they moved to this useless release cycle (basically replacing bugfix releases with major releases), we should shift our news upvoting from major releases to major-major releases (i.e. treat the decimal sign as if it were 2.6…
For me personally FF 26 adds a major feature, specifically h.264 video playback in Linux. Finally I'll stop needing Flash to view videos on Vimeo (and a few other sites).
It actually was already available in 25, it was just off by default.
Re: Firefox 26 is released
#110About gstreamer video playback: I didn't find a way to prioritize formats. Let's say some video is available in VPx (WebM) and H.264 (mp4). Firefox will pick first whatever is listed first on the page. So for me it always picks H.264 on Youtube. I prefer to use open codecs though when there is a choice, but there is no apparent way to set the priority.