Firefox 60 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by nathancahill » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

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

Proposed fix: https://bug1387695.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8901...

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by sayhello » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

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.

Might be hardware related. Did you provide your HW profile in the bug report?

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by cimmanom » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

mccr8 wrote: post #41

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.

That sounds kind of like a known issue with scaled resolution on OSX. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any progress has been made on it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

Aha! That detail (that it's specific to scaled resolution) explains so much!

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by vanderZwan » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

kiliancs wrote: post #37

> Stylo comes to Firefox for Android in 60 > Firefox's new parallel CSS engine — also known as Quantum CSS or Stylo — which was first enabled by default in Firefox 57 for desktop, has now been enabled in Firefox for Android. That's exciting, but on my phone the Play Store still doesn't provide the new version.

Play Store rollout always takes a bit longer

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by trumped » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

kiliancs wrote: post #37

> Stylo comes to Firefox for Android in 60 > Firefox's new parallel CSS engine — also known as Quantum CSS or Stylo — which was first enabled by default in Firefox 57 for desktop, has now been enabled in Firefox for Android. That's exciting, but on my phone the Play Store still doesn't provide the new version.

You can download the apk straight from Mozilla: https://firefox.com/m

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by rmist » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

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

Open about:debugging, goto Manifest URL of the extension, search for 'permissions'.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by yborg » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

morsch wrote: post #21

gruez wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>... is software that generates revenue for its developer ... does pocket suggesting stories somehow generate revenue for Mozilla?

Mozilla owns Pocket. They're not calling them Pocket Sponsored Stories to be cute. You, too, can now buy screen space in the premiere open-source browser: https://getpocket.com/sponsor I think it's a disgrace.

I wish someone with the time would start producing a "De-Mozilla'ed" fork a la Chromium. I think Firefox has gotten to that point, things like this and the Mr. Robot fiasco indicate the project needs to be saved from itself.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by godelski » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:10 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.

Anyone else get the bug where it doesn't auto-fill (shows grey box), you right click and it shows that you have no stored logins, and then once you close that (right click) menu you are prompted like normal? This happens to me frequently, though seems to be specific sites.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by grumblestumble » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

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.

Chiming in here. I would absolutely love to switch to Firefox for a host of reasons, ranging from "I don't want to use Google products" to "I love the tabs". Unfortunately, it's completely unusable for my workflow on a 2015 Macbook Pro with 16G RAM. I keep a variety of tabs pinned (JIRA, Zeplin, Gitlab, Jenkins, Invision, etc) and it seems as if they continue to hog a disproportionate amount of resources even when in the background, which is not an issue on Chrome.

Re: Firefox 60 released

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Post by NVRM » Wed, May 09, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

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.

The exact opposite from gnu