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Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by trevor-e »

syeaj wrote: post #104
trevor-e wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too switched for several months, but am already back to using Chrome. Even with the performance improvements, it's still noticeably slower than Chrome.

I'm curious: what OS do you use and what sites are you visiting? I've had a stellar experience on Arch Linux. The RAM usage is down. I can't say I really ever found Chrome slow, but nor is Firefox for me. I think they're both plenty fast, but I prefer sites without lots of garbage flying around on the page anyway.

macOS High Sierra. I generally have a lot of tabs open: two Inbox tabs, Facebook, StackOverflow chat + question pages for what I'm working on, many JIRA tickets, HN, sometimes Twitch, etc.

I think it has something to do with video rendering since opening Twitch/Youtube often causes the problems to start.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by jcadam »

chmln wrote: post #126

Firefox gets raving feedback here, but for me it is unusably slow on a Linux machine. While websites do render fast, the UI is not very responsive, whether its laggy typing into the address bar [1] or the crawling devtools. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699

I switched back to Firefox for dev work on my system (Arch Linux), because Chrome would slow to a crawl with its devtools open. Firefox (since quantum) seems to fare better.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by Shivetya »

teamhappy wrote: post #2

"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications" Been waiting for this one.

about:preferences is not the place for this as the vast majority of users know nothing about what they cannot see in a menu structure.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by iamjs »

grok2 wrote: post #79

After I switched to Firefox 59 beta on Windows (7 upgraded to 10), I see the following issue all the time. When accessing finance.google.com in one tab and etrade.com (internal page) in another, if I am on finance.google.com and if it refreshes and is slow for some reason I start seeing a blank page with a spinner on that tab and while this is happening, if I switch to the etrade.com tab, I see that page is blank too…

I've also noticed the same blank page with spinner (which seems to hang and never actually refresh in my case) on non Google sites since the quantum upgrade. Figured it was a bug that would get squashed in a subsequent version, but no luck yet.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by vmarsy »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #106
grok2 wrote: post #79

After I switched to Firefox 59 beta on Windows (7 upgraded to 10), I see the following issue all the time. When accessing finance.google.com in one tab and etrade.com (internal page) in another, if I am on finance.google.com and if it refreshes and is slow for some reason I start seeing a blank page with a spinner on that tab and while this is happening, if I switch to the etrade.com tab, I see that page is blank too…

Google web apps and sites don't work well in Firefox, generally speaking. Examples where Chrome performance and functionality is superior include: - Inbox (try downloading attachments) - Maps - Analytics - ...

> Inbox (try downloading attachments)

The only times I got issues with this on Firefox was due to some add-on (Disconnect for instance). On Firefox out of the box I haven't had issues with downloading attachments lately, even with the add-on on.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by deft »

zbraniecki wrote: post #99
sutoor wrote: post #34

Sadly, still unusable for me since the Quantum update. A clean install and profile, no add-ons, and google.com/maps (for example) will max out my cpu. There must be some bug related to old hardware and OS (Macbook Pro 2009 + 10.11.x) or more people would be experiencing this.

Hi! I'm collecting profiles on cases like yours. Here are instructions if you'd like to help: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7knnn4/firefox_qua...

I haven't actually checked if firefox was eating my CPU but with my pre-quantum profile on post-quantum Firefox (connected to firefox Sync) Firefox would essentially lock up whenever I was on a page with a lot of Canvas stuff. I made a fresh profile and the issue was gone. Don't know if this is at all related to what you're collecting.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by deft »

grok2 wrote: post #79

After I switched to Firefox 59 beta on Windows (7 upgraded to 10), I see the following issue all the time. When accessing finance.google.com in one tab and etrade.com (internal page) in another, if I am on finance.google.com and if it refreshes and is slow for some reason I start seeing a blank page with a spinner on that tab and while this is happening, if I switch to the etrade.com tab, I see that page is blank too…

I have this exact issue, and I really don't think it's google's fault. Both those sites are using canvas to draw charts. I experienced it on crypto trading sites mostly. Try a fresh profile, copy your bookmarks and history over to the new one. I did this and the problem was gone. (See my other comment in the thread)

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by kibwen »

lloeki wrote: post #119
Flimm wrote: post #39

Firefox 59 is the first Firefox release to support SameSite cookie attribute, joining Chrome. > Same-site cookies ("First-Party-Only" or "First-Party") allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain. I like this one!

How does this play out WRT "Block 3rd party cookies" (which wasn't on by default on Fx and Cr but was on Safari since an eternity?)

It sounds like they serve totally different purposes, where one is a server-side tool to improve security, and the other is a client-side tool to improve privacy.
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