I’ve stopped using chrome everywhere because of all the goodness in Firefox since 55
It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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Best i can tell, Firefox is doing something on Android during first (cold?) launch that just chugs the storage. The really problem source is that all this is stored in the cache dir for the app, and that can and will be flushed at irregular intervals. This resulting in Firefox doing it over again next time it is launched.
Well, my issue was mainly with render speed. The delay between scrolling and the site actually rendering in is the issue.
Your lucky, I'm dealing with an app crash every hour or so(if I'm lucky), ui freeze, then hang for 5 seconds , then ' email us the details box', before it restarts.
Trying the beta now though, fingers crossed!
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After the most recent LastPass extension vulnerability, I no longer run LastPass extension in my default browser (Firefox). I have it installed on a different browser then copy/paste as needed.
More convenient to just disable auto-fill, which prevents the exploit.
Until the next one, then the next one, then the next one. I just figured at some point it's safer to trade a slight inconvenience of copy/paste to not have my passwords available via JavaScript.
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I got the beta two days ago and oh my God this thing is super fast. I used to dread opening web pages, now it's my favorite thing! I am extremely impressed with the work they did.
That's interesting. I find Firefox Nightly on Android to be extremely slow compared to Chrome.
What's your setup?
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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There's also the grid layout debugger and a bunch of other stuff. If you go to the devtools settings you can add a lot of cool tools to the main pane including a canvas debugger and some other useful stuff.
Think this is what Firefox should focus on, Chrome has had incredible resources put into making the devtools amazing, and they are amazing. If Firefox has a few killer features, it's not going to prevent people from using Chrome devtools, but they will Firefox as well, which is what everyone really wants, for the good of the web.
FWIW firefox has pretty steadily been churning out new debugger features this last year at least.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#306I tried it again on my notebook having seen the Project Quantum dev edition announcement here. Initially impressed by its speed, I've been using it since (3 days I think?). I've found after a few hours it slows down in two very irritating respects -- scrolling gets very janky and reluctant, and switching tabs takes nearly a second. I suppose this may be due to an extension, but given I only use my notebook for work,…
Can you run the profiler https://perf-html.io/ and when this happens next, capture a profile of some janky tab switching. Once you've captured a profile you can share it which gives you a link. Then can you file a bug at https:/bugzilla.mozilla.org and include the link to your profile and a description of the symptoms.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#307Am I the only one here who thinks that nothing can beat the Chrome debugger ? Nothing comes even close. It's a different story if you are just browsing, like the 95% or more of the internet consumers.
I’ve found the firefox dev tools to be quite good, maybe even better. For instance, I’ve found it has a little better tools for working with iframes.
Firefox also doesn't hide SSL certificate info like Chrome recently started doing.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
#308I tried it again on my notebook having seen the Project Quantum dev edition announcement here. Initially impressed by its speed, I've been using it since (3 days I think?). I've found after a few hours it slows down in two very irritating respects -- scrolling gets very janky and reluctant, and switching tabs takes nearly a second. I suppose this may be due to an extension, but given I only use my notebook for work,…
Can you run the profiler https://perf-html.io/ and when this happens next, capture a profile of some janky tab switching. Once you've captured a profile you can share it which gives you a link. Then can you file a bug at https:/bugzilla.mozilla.org and include the link to your profile and a description of the symptoms.
I should have said more about the profiler in case you're new to it. Let it run. It's overhead is really quite low. Then when you notice the slow tab switching or janky scrolling, you hit Capture Profile and that stops the profiler and loads the profile for you to view. IN that view you'll find a "share" button in the top right that makes the profile remotely available and gives you a link you can use to file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
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That's as a bit unfair conclusion. I just believe that if Firefox dies then for sure "Open Web" will die. But, yeah, of course I am not happy with Pocket. But it still better than using Chrome.
Curious what is the concern with pocket?
It's troubled past and weird current state, doesn't make me comfortable with sharing any info that Mozilla shares with them.
Re: It’s time to give Firefox another chance
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Can you run the profiler https://perf-html.io/ and when this happens next, capture a profile of some janky tab switching. Once you've captured a profile you can share it which gives you a link. Then can you file a bug at https:/bugzilla.mozilla.org and include the link to your profile and a description of the symptoms.
I should have said more about the profiler in case you're new to it. Let it run. It's overhead is really quite low. Then when you notice the slow tab switching or janky scrolling, you hit Capture Profile and that stops the profiler and loads the profile for you to view. IN that view you'll find a "share" button in the top right that makes the profile remotely available and gives you a link you can use to file a bug a…
I will. I was actually intending to put Firefox aside for a beta release or two, but I've enjoyed using it so much aside from those issues that I think I shall persist for a while.
Thanks for the info.