Firefox 59 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by floatboth » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:50 PM UTC

> Added support for W3C specs for pointer events and improved platform integration with added device support for mouse, pen, and touch screen pointer input

ohh yeah finally! I somehow missed that even though I'm following Nightly.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by jadbox » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:50 PM UTC

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #35

Switched to FF Nightly from Chrome about 6 months ago because Chrome's memory usage was awful. Firefox has been much better, especially since I modified the following in about:config: browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers => 0 dom.ipc.processCount => 1

Isn't limiting the ipc processes severely capping (CPU) performance?

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by vetinari » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:51 PM UTC

acaramanamaraca wrote: post #19

Looks like 'client side decorations' on Linux didn't make this release?

CSDs were already in 58 (Customize, Title Bar). What didn't make this release is Wayland support.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by dschep » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:51 PM UTC

acaramanamaraca wrote: post #19

Looks like 'client side decorations' on Linux didn't make this release?

Speaking of linux features. Is it me or did it stop using native desktop notifications?

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by childintime » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:52 PM UTC

Sadly no news on the Web-extensions front. Several of my extensions continue broken.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by barkingcat » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:53 PM UTC

TremendousJudge wrote: post #38

koolba wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve yet to find a site from which I do want to receive notifications.

chat apps like discord and slack, mostly

Even discord and slack I don't want browser notifications. Inside their own tab, I can deal with ui elements. There's no need nor no want to have a page alert outside of the web page itself.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by DangerousPie » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:53 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.

I have been having problems with Google Maps too, and Google Hangouts has been even worse. I'm pretty much at the point now where I have asked people to contact me on different services because Hangouts has become completely unusable.

I was assuming that this was just Google not caring about Firefox support. But now that you mention it, this seems to have started around the time of the Quantum update and doesn't affect all my machines. So maybe I'm experiencing this bug as well? I never connected the two things.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by rehemiau » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:55 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.

I noticed that too. Firefox does not work efficiently on macOS, unfortunately.

Additionally, Google doesn't do much to fix their web apps performance on Firefox. I even suspect the contrary.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by odabaxok » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:55 PM UTC

rebelwebmaster wrote: post #28

odabaxok wrote: post #17

A little OT, but how can I enable/use the Screenshots feature? I cannot find it.

On the right-hand side of the location bar, there's a Page actions menu (the 3 dots) which includes taking a screenshot.

I cannot see it there.

https://postimg.org/image/59fqo4pfx/

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by m_eiman » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:55 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.

I have something similar on my MBP late 2012, running latest OS. I've switched to Safari on that machine to avoid running out of battery and maxing the fans.