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Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by derekdahmer » Wed, May 09, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

apazzolini wrote: post #119

mccr8 wrote: post #41

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That sounds kind of like a known issue with scaled resolution on OSX. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any progress has been made on it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

I unfortunately notice this behavior even when my MBP (2013, Retina) is in clamshell mode hooked up to a 1440p monitor rendering at native resolution. :(

My hackintosh with a dedicated GPU has no problem at all because it has the rendering power to handle it. But my 2014 MBP Retina with integrated graphics gets destroyed and ends up spiking the CPU as well.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by esfandia » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

Has the Classic Theme Restorer add-on been ported to the new extension API? Until then, I'm staying with my old version of Firefox.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by bhandziuk » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:21 PM UTC

Did anyone else lose the ability to scroll by clicking the middle mouse button in the 57 (Quantum) upgrade? Still missing for me in this version.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by superkuh » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:24 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #163

superkuh wrote: post #125

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I have about 20k bookmarks.

Do you ever use any of them or get back to them? I used to do that too on a smaller scale but realized after a while that I don't really need them to find things as the browsers address bar is usually enough and worst case I can fall back to a web search. I never really had a case where I couldn't find something again that I would've found through my bookmarks as these are usually not tagged well or there's not enoug…

I use my bookmarks constantly and I have a well structured folder hierarchy so I don't run into the problems you describe. There is no downside to having lots of bookmarks. It isn't the same as a physical space in which the 'clutter' or 'less is more' ideologies may have merit.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:27 PM UTC

clumsysmurf wrote: post #134

One killer feature from Safari missing still is 'Show tab overview' with thumbnails of all your tabs ... anyone know of a well maintained plugin that does something like this? I think it should be built into the browser.

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Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by Narishma » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:27 PM UTC

StudentStuff wrote: post #161

kleiba wrote: post #120

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I experience regular "gray outs" on Ubuntu with FF hogging so many resources that eventually the only thing that works is killing it. This happens to me both on a 5 year old desktop as well as on old Lenovo Thinkpad (X2002s). However, I believe flashplayer to be the culprit as I often have quite a few youtube tabs open -- obviously never more than one playing though.

Why are you using Flash Player for Youtube? I've gone nearly 4 years since installing Flash on any machine, its pretty well unnecessary today. If you want to reduce performance though, using Flash is one way of going about it.

Depends on your hardware and drivers. On a couple of my older machines the Flash plugin is the only way I can get hardware accelerated video decoding.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by severine » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:29 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #23

Firefox in mobile is worth using simply for the reader view. It makes the mobile web tolerable again.

Do you use the Open in Reader View extension?

https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/reader-view/

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by megous » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:34 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #163

superkuh wrote: post #125

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I have about 20k bookmarks.

Do you ever use any of them or get back to them? I used to do that too on a smaller scale but realized after a while that I don't really need them to find things as the browsers address bar is usually enough and worst case I can fall back to a web search. I never really had a case where I couldn't find something again that I would've found through my bookmarks as these are usually not tagged well or there's not enoug…

URL bar search uses bookmarks, and they also make search useful even after clearing your history.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by azinman2 » Wed, May 09, 2018, 10:58 PM UTC

Kpourdeilami wrote: post #16

apazzolini wrote: post #9

Unfortunately, looks like the CPU spikes are still a problem on OS X for me. I check this every time a new version is released as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome, but Firefox with one blank tab and no extensions uses more CPU than Chrome with 15 actual tabs. When I actually throw activity at Firefox it hogs the CPU even more. Here's hoping v61 addresses it.

It is borderline unusable on the most recent Macbook Pro and most recent version of OS X. Weird that it only seems to affect some people

I’m on a 5k iMac with zero problems on latest OS X.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by bradknowles » Wed, May 09, 2018, 11:01 PM UTC

lwansbrough wrote: post #43

apazzolini wrote: post #9

Unfortunately, looks like the CPU spikes are still a problem on OS X for me. I check this every time a new version is released as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome, but Firefox with one blank tab and no extensions uses more CPU than Chrome with 15 actual tabs. When I actually throw activity at Firefox it hogs the CPU even more. Here's hoping v61 addresses it.

I was gonna submit a performance profile as a bug report, but the https://perf-html.io profiler doesn't work in FF60

It worked fine for me, just a few seconds ago.

What specific problems are you seeing?