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Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by adpirz »

apazzolini wrote: post #9

Unfortunately, looks like the CPU spikes are still a problem on OS X for me. I check this every time a new version is released as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome, but Firefox with one blank tab and no extensions uses more CPU than Chrome with 15 actual tabs. When I actually throw activity at Firefox it hogs the CPU even more. Here's hoping v61 addresses it.

At least good to hear I'm not the only one. I want to like it for all of its speed and sleekness, but it regularly runs hot and gets the fans going full blast. Odd that it's still an issue.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by cpeterso »

lonk wrote: post #30

Scrolling is still jerky and sluggish on android.

Firefox for Android will be copying Chrome's scrolling physics for faster scrolling, since that's what Android users are used to. Chrome doesn't use Android's standard scrolling physics, so custom scrolling code is needed to emulate its behavior.

You can test this in Firefox 61 Beta by setting the "apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.enabled" pref to true in about:config. The new behavior will hopefully be enabled by default in Firefox 62.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448439

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by sp332 »

dumbmatter wrote: post #35

I'm psyched to see the fix to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193394 released, which (amongst other things) mean that you can finally write code using both IndexedDB and promises without inadvertently committing the active transaction on promise resolution. Now I just need to wait until the market share of other Firefox versions decreases before I can actually take advantage in production :)

According to the CSV data available from http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share new Firefox versions tend to dominate just 1-2 months after release. https://imgur.com/a/xzvAU4t

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by cat199 »

Kpourdeilami wrote: post #16
apazzolini wrote: post #9

Unfortunately, looks like the CPU spikes are still a problem on OS X for me. I check this every time a new version is released as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome, but Firefox with one blank tab and no extensions uses more CPU than Chrome with 15 actual tabs. When I actually throw activity at Firefox it hogs the CPU even more. Here's hoping v61 addresses it.

It is borderline unusable on the most recent Macbook Pro and most recent version of OS X. Weird that it only seems to affect some people

sierra (not high sierra) and latest 15/4c MBP.

Has been working just fine here for 7-9mo since I got it (not on the latest latest, but this sounds like an ongoing issue)

Agree it's weird.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by cat199 »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #45
butz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you reported this bug? It's all fine on the old OS X Mavericks.

I reported it and they know what the problem is but it got marked as no-priority. Everytime there’s a new release I check if it’s solved and move back to Safari. Every release there are people complaining about it. I know I have been for 2 years now, but it falls on deaf ears.

issue ref?

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by greglindahl »

Kpourdeilami wrote: post #16
apazzolini wrote: post #9

Unfortunately, looks like the CPU spikes are still a problem on OS X for me. I check this every time a new version is released as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome, but Firefox with one blank tab and no extensions uses more CPU than Chrome with 15 actual tabs. When I actually throw activity at Firefox it hogs the CPU even more. Here's hoping v61 addresses it.

It is borderline unusable on the most recent Macbook Pro and most recent version of OS X. Weird that it only seems to affect some people

If it affected everyone all of the time, it would have been fixed.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by vanderZwan »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #47
Paul-ish wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless who is technically at fault, the Firefox team is best placed to resolve the issue. It kind of surprises me that this is an issue at all. I was under the impression a large number of FF devs use Macbooks.

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

I find this confusing: there is tons of discussion in the thread, and yet:

> UNCONFIRMED

> Votes: 0 votes

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by sp332 »

dsissitka wrote: post #49

Still no option to see all of the permissions an extension requires without digging through its source. :( https://imgur.com/a/k4rk0 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449698

You've linked to a duplicate of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427622
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