No video download helper. Anyone got a good way of downloading video streams?
Have you tried youtube-dl( https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ )?
Not for a while. I was hoping for a browser addon.
Firefox 57.0 Released
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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#252Anyone know how the new FireFox compares on battery-life? Safari crushes Chrome on this front currently, but I'm curious how FireFox compares now.
For Firefox 57, the team has been working essentially on improving CPU, GPU and memory usage, as well as concurrency. I know that some people have been looking at energy, but that's not where most efforts were spent.
I hope that our next priority becomes energy. Stay tuned :)
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#253Can one run the new version alongside a previous version? I need to access occasionally extensions unsupported in the new version: namely Scrapbook and the extension that provides maff file support.
As long as you use different profiles, and start each of them up with the profile indicated as runtime option: yes. (particularly useful when you need to test some website against a main, beta, and nightly version of a browser simultaneously)
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have a look here [0] for legacy extensions replacements. [0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU...
It needs an entry for RamBack[0]. Before installing RamBack, FF was very frustrating and I was seriously considering chrome [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ramback/?src=...
Given the performance and memory usage improvements in FF57, it might not be necessary any more (I note that extension was last updated in 2007)
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#255Glad Tree Style Tabs ported over to 57...but kinda annoying I needed to uninstall/re-install add-on to get it working again
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try starting Firefox in safe mode in case that's some broken extension: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-is...
No extensions installed. Literally just downloaded firefox.
sounds like you should file a bug about that so they can be aware of that problem and look into it.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#257Just upgraded. Definitely feels snappier at first glance, what I'm most curious about however is how much the speed deteriorates the longer I use it (if at all). The older version was definitely pretty bad after a couple of days of uptime. All in all though. Nice job so far. :) Edit: I do sorta feel like the tabs are now smaller (when there is a lot of tabs open), any way to make them bigger?
I've been using the nightly version for several months, and it doesn't slow down significantly.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
None of the Firefox Quantum work has looked at power usage, so don't expect any changes on that front.
Well... new renderer and JS engine are faster and use less memory, which means less CPU cycles are used for the same thing and less information is stored in RAM, there are improvements for Windows and Linux hardware acceleration. This all summed-up means reduction of power consumption.
The new style system is faster, but partly due to parallelizing, which doesn't necessarily mean fewer CPU cycles (though _can_ mean more time spent in CPU sleep state).
I don't know why you think 57 uses less memory than 56 for the "renderer and JS engine". I don't think it does. In fact, the data shows that it actually uses a bit more than 56, though this obviously depends on workload.
(Disclaimer: I work on the Firefox rendering engine and have done some work on the JS engine.)
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#259I'm loving the new FF, my missing feature is being able to open a site as a desktop app. I use chrome to make different icons/windows/apps for gmail, hn, reddit, photos, cloud9, etc. Anyone know if there is a way to have a website shortcut open in its own window and have an icon in the taskbar?
Exactly, this is the only reason why I don’t use anything other than Chrome. While I really want to switch to FF. Chrome “add to desktop” does make website almost as like a desktop app and without unnecessary tabbar and stuff. I wish firefox could do that. That being said, I don’t use any native app at all other than a terminal emulator. Just terminal + vscode + chrome.
For what it's worth, Firefox used to be able to do this (with a few manipulations). At some point, that feature was killed, because apparently nobody (except me) was using it :/
It's a shame, because I would really like to be able to move my chat clients out of the Firefox UI.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#260Feels GREAT! Happy to be using this in addition to Safari. I also added uBlock Origin as an adblocker but would still love if FF eventually included native, declarative content blocking like Safari (probably less likely given how much money they get from Google).