Firefox 23 is available • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by nhebb » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:33 PM UTC

acomjean wrote: post #11

6cxs2hd6 wrote: post #6

I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread. I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is…

I love firefox too. But for me it always starts slowing down half way through the day (about the same time as I do). Maybe its firebug? This has happened on windows and mac. Restarting it makes it work better, like myself after lunch. Its still my favorite browser though.

Go to about:memory then click the "Minimize memory usage" button.

P.S. If anyone knows how to add that button to the FF toolbar, I would consider you a minor deity for at least a whole day.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by conradfr » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:34 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #10

Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .

Which apparently does not work in IE10 & Chrome either.

I guess you can still implement it easily in JS though.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by CapitalistCartr » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:35 PM UTC

So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by gholap » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #10

Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .

Nice find! I wonder what prompted to look at the code there...

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by LandoCalrissian » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #10

Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .

It's now gone from every browser I think, that was a funny legacy feature I wish they would have left in just for fun.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by cyphax » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

CapitalistCartr wrote: post #23

So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.

They removed the checkbox from the options but if you look in about:config you can disable Javascript.

So that's a yes and a no? :P

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by negativity » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:38 PM UTC

...and remember, kids. JavaScript is now compulsory.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by ender7 » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:38 PM UTC

CapitalistCartr wrote: post #23

So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.

It was, but there are many addons that will turn it off for you.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by melling » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

It's great to finally see that Firefox is updating almost everyone like Chrome.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-201322-...

Those first few (dozen?) releases people constantly complained about the version number changes, the rapid release cycle, and there was quite a bit of fragmention.

There days there are a billion people getting a new HTML5 browser every 6 weeks.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by mmuro » Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

Jgrubb wrote: post #13

mmuro wrote: post #12

It feels like OSX will be on Mavericks before the Lion scroll bars are supported in Firefox. I've been using Safari a lot lately. Only thing I'm not crazy about is the inspector. It's easily the worst of all the browsers, but at least they are fixing that in the next update.

Just out of curiosity, why Safari?

I just don't like Chrome, for one. But, I really like the scrolling, pinch to zoom, swipe to go backwards, bookmark syncing across my multiple computers, etc.

The inspector, as flawed as it is, has some nice features. I don't have Mavericks, but I believe these updates are coming: https://www.webkit.org/blog/2518/state-of-web-inspector/