So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.
I'm using web developer extension anyway. Disabling/enabling JS is a matter of 2 clicks in its menu.
Firefox 23 is available
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#32I'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…
Yup, I have very similar problems.
Google+ is a great example - it slows to a crawl after a few minutes of browsing - it particularly becomes unusable when I scroll down and it loads more content via AJAX.
I'm on Xubuntu 13.04.
Re: Firefox 23 is available
#33The biggy for me is support. I’ve already ripped jQuery UI out of an internal project today; it was only there because of that omission.
Man, that was a long time coming! Glad it's finally here.
Re: Firefox 23 is available
#34I'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 could've written this myself. I love Firefox and I used it for years but at some point it became rather unusable and after it forgot which tabs I had pinned as app tabs for the fifth or so time (because I had to kill a completely unresponsive Firefox, this happened often) I was angry enough to actually give Chrome a try. It is SO much more responsive, even just the UI. I've kept Firefox up-to-date but I don't want…
Firefox has come so far from the memory hogging 4.0 days. Like others here, I give it a shot ever few month and UI responsiveness always sends me back to Chrome. The resurrected electrolysis project can’t come soon enough.
The irony is what use to be its greatest flaw, memory usage/leaks, is now it's greatest strength. Around Chrome 15+ memory usage started ballooning and was too much for my 2GB netbook. A laggy UI is much better than an unresponsive system from thrashing RAM.
Re: Firefox 23 is available
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Interesting. What does pressing that button actually do?
Re: Firefox 23 is available
#36So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.
Also a dealbreaker, no "disable HTML" option. It's critical to my daily workflow to be able to turn off all content and browse the web in peace and silence.
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#37Wasn't this the release that was suppose to disable third-party cookies by default? What happend?
That was supposed to be switched on by default in Firefox 22, but Mozilla noticed some issue with it. The feature is there in FF22, but you have to switch it on yourself. If you you want to know more about the issues, you can read what Brendan Eich had to say:
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#38Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .
Geocities are gone. is gone.
Pretty soon, will be gone too. At least animated gifs are still stronger than ever.
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#39Looks like gstreamer support for non-free codecs (like H.264) is not enabled in this build yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794282#c78
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#40So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.
The idea is that non-technical users shouldn't have options in preferences that will break the web for them, and that technical users will use about:config or an add-on (e.g. NoScript). I find it difficult to argue with that.
edit: clarity. total rewrite.