Firefox 59 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by ci5er » Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

crtasm wrote: post #230

ci5er wrote: post #212

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Well, if you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, you certainly shouldn't have the privilege of making my computer beep at me, whenever the hell you feel like it. But, that's me. Maybe you like people interrupting you. (Or maybe you like interrupting people because you think you are too important to wait en queue.)

I'm not suggesting your position is wrong, just that like IRC there's going to be lots of discord users who have a use for some kind of notification but would never want to give their number out.

Fair enough.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by jerheinze » Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

Silhouette wrote: post #227

sp332 wrote: post #224

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The main feature of the new model is that it has less functionality than the old model. Firefox is betting that it can enable close to 100% of the functionality that users actually want via clean APIs instead of opening up literally every internal aspect of the browser to extensions. There will be bugs, but specifying APIs makes them easier to fix. The advantages are speed, security, ease of installation, ease of dev…

Those benefits are "observable". Not yet, they aren't. In fact, the exact opposite has been observed here, many times already. This is my point. As you say, I'm sure we all hope that the situation will improve in the future, and then maybe the sales pitch for Quantum will start to look a bit more realistic. Until then, sad as it makes me, Firefox will remain relegated to primarily a testing tool on my system, because…

There are many reports of unusual CPU usage in some scenarios on Mac OS, you can help Mozilla debug the issue following this: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7knnn4/firefox_qua...

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by bluedino » Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 6:54 PM UTC

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.

Working perfectly here. Firefox 59.0.1 OS X 10.11.6 MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB