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Firefox 26 is released

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Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by dear »

mccr8 wrote: post #59
dear wrote: post #31

Anyone 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?

If you look at about:memory, it can give you information about where the memory is going. If you file a bug on bugzilla with the [MemShrink] whiteboard, we can look into it and try to figure out what is happening.

Thanks! I have used about:memory and 'CC', 'GC', etc, but they didn't help. I will see if this is a problem with the new version. At least older versions (25 or before) all had the similar issue.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by shmerl »

pwnna wrote: post #57
acdha wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If Google didn't buckle like a house of cards on this. I wonder where we'd be? Content providers weren't jumping to more double their storage costs or deal with another immature toolchain so I rather suspect we'd be where we are now: Flash got an extra couple years reprieve until everyone accepts reality and implements H.264. This is particularly true since no matter WebM's merits it was going to be worse when tran…

Hopefully Daala/Opus would take off soon so we don't have to worry about these things anymore..

Daala is at least 2 years away still.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by winslow »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #77
_sabe_ wrote: post #61

How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.

A lot of software is developed via some sort of agile software process these days. This means a new version of the software quite regularly, released on a time basis rather than a feature basis. This is what made version numbers meaningless. There are three common solutions: time based: Ubuntu 12.04 increment the major number: Chrome 31 increment the minor number, never or rarely changing the major numbers: Linux 2.6…

What is your solution then if these don't work well?

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by skybrian »

achairapart wrote: post #78

Firefox 25 hanged most of the time, it seems was because of Firebug. I disabled Firebug. Firefox 26 hangs at start up. CPU stuck at 100%. Almost 1 GB of ram used with 1 tab open (I can't even open a new one). What happened, Mozilla? I'm giving up with this browser.

Try it with a fresh profile to try to narrow it down.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by Crito »

erichurkman wrote: post #66
Crito wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do the same. The one disadvantage is you lose the ability to click on overlayed links to related videos that some people often put at the end of their videos.

I could argue that being a benefit -- the overlays and other annoyances during the video playback go away, too. So do the YouTube comments.

I'd say it depends entirely on the video/channel. For instance, on Brady Haran channels (Periodic Videos, Sixy Symbols, Numberphile, etc) the overlays are very useful as they link to videos about tangentially related topics, followup videos on the same topic, or even other videos on the same topic featuring a different professor explaining things a different way.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by dkhenry »

shmerl wrote: post #106

Is 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 u…

If you have the files dropped in /opt just chown them to your primary user. I have been running like that for some time now and there shouldn't be any issues.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by anymane »

I am curious about this change in the changelog. "Password manager now supports script-generated password fields" I couldn't easily find any details about. Would someone be kind enough to elaborate on what it does and where it is useful?

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by _doug_ »

anymane wrote: post #117

I am curious about this change in the changelog. "Password manager now supports script-generated password fields" I couldn't easily find any details about. Would someone be kind enough to elaborate on what it does and where it is useful?

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355063

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by shmerl »

dkhenry wrote: post #116
shmerl wrote: post #106

Is 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 u…

If you have the files dropped in /opt just chown them to your primary user. I have been running like that for some time now and there shouldn't be any issues.

I can chown them, but isn't that bad in general? If something breaks out from the browser, it can overwrite the binary with malicious code or whatever. Is it a real concern? Regular Linux packages aren't accessible for writing for the ordniary user offering some security barrier.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by jsilence »

x0054 wrote: post #100
spindritf wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just download youtube videos[1]. It has many advantages over youtube.com. Hardware acceleration is one but also no stalling when skipping ahead, no disappearing videos that you planned to watch later, no need to sign in. Actually, youtube as a repository of material for download works much better than youtube as a streaming site. [1] http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

On OSX I highly recommend YouView[1]. It streams H.264, and CPU usage during playback is 1/3 of what the browser player uses. I guess it really inconsequential unless you are on a laptop. On a laptop it's a difference in 1-1.5 hours of battery life. [1] https://mrgeckosmedia.com/applications/info/YouView

Awesome! Thank you for this hint!
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