Firefox 60 released

Post by staktrace » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:31 PM UTC

mercer wrote: post #158

xenophonf wrote: post #108

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I wonder what's causing that on your computer, because I'm running Firefox on a late-2011 MacBook Pro without any issues, and that's with a ton of tabs opened (including a bunch of pinned tabs running multiple instances of Office 365 in separate containers, Slack, and so forth) and the usual crowd of extensions (UBO et al). It's bouncing between 0 and 5% CPU utilization.

I've tried figuring it out, but haven't been able to pin it down. Is it even possible to check tab resource usage the way I can in Chrome? If not, that's another reason I'd probably keep coming back to the latter. Thing is, it's not even that I have so many tabs open. It's always been fewer than Chrome, and with fewer active extensions to boot. Furthermore, it also happens on my other computer. The other one has 16 G…

Post by Grimm665 » Thu, May 10, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

wpdev_63 wrote: post #34

If anyone from lastpass is reading this thread, please fix your plugin. Everytime I try to edit the password from the prompt on the page, it opens a blank page for the password vault page.

Post by zaphirplane » Fri, May 11, 2018, 5:45 AM UTC

xenophonf wrote: post #108

mercer wrote: post #100

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I really want to switch to Firefox, so every once in a while I force myself to use it 'properly' for a week or two at least. Such a two week period has just ended, and while FF does feel snappier than before, I'm running into exactly the issues you describe. When using Firefox, my four-year old MacBook Air pretty regularly slows down to the point where my music starts stuttering and even force-closing FF takes a whil…

I wonder what's causing that on your computer, because I'm running Firefox on a late-2011 MacBook Pro without any issues, and that's with a ton of tabs opened (including a bunch of pinned tabs running multiple instances of Office 365 in separate containers, Slack, and so forth) and the usual crowd of extensions (UBO et al). It's bouncing between 0 and 5% CPU utilization.

Post by spiderfarmer » Fri, May 11, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

jamienicol wrote: post #231

spiderfarmer wrote: post #47

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Yeah, well they know what the problem is but it fails to get a high enough priority to get solved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407536

Hi, I'm one of the commenters on that bug. The discussion is all specific to that page. The biggest issue is that the animations are being driven from Javascript instead of CSS, so there's little we can do to optimize it. The rest of the discussion is possible heuristics we can implement to optimize how we layerize the page. It would potentially help on this page, but might make things slower elsewhere.

Post by majani » Fri, May 11, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC

PostOnce wrote: post #186

majani wrote: post #182

From the comparison of the lists, looks like desktop is still their focus, which points to a sad level of navel gazing for an internet company in 2018. Makes me question whether they are focused on competing with Chrome or whether they just want to make cool tech.

The desktop (and laptop) is still my focus, too. It's where I do all my work. I'm glad someone still gives a damn. I'm glad not everyone is chasing the crowdsourced social-mobile-AI-blockchain. Not all tech has to point in the same direction. That said I use Firefox on Android every day and it's fantastic, so what are you talking about specifically?