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Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by clarry »

bad_user wrote: post #60
dear wrote: post #31

Anyone with memory problem with Firefox? My FF is currently using 2G memory while I only have 13 tabs opened and most of them are just plain simple pages. I am sure it will keep sucking up memory until I do restart. This problem is not new. Is there a memory leak problem with FF?

First of all, it's hard to tell how much memory a process uses. If you're on Linux or on OS X and you're using "top", there's difficulty in interpreting the results. For example right now my Firefox 26 with about 20 tabs is being reported by "top" as using 2190MB VIRT and ~1030MB RES. VIRT reports the total amount of memory allocated, including memory that's shared between processes, including memory-mapped files, in…

> And if you want to claim that it's a memory hog, then you need to take a look at how it behaves on top of memory constrained systems.

I can confirm that Firefox regularly runs out of memory and dies on a system with a total of 1G of ram and 512M data segment limit.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by padenot »

footpath wrote: post #65

The Android version has received a facelift as well, and it looks nice. However, I suppose there still isn't a way to manually pin sites to the about:home page if they do not show up there already?

This is possible in Nightly, so it's likely to be live in release in a couple months or so.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by untog »

super_mario wrote: post #16
caissy wrote: post #4

> There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache. Quite happy with this one. I had to develop an offline web-based application a few weeks ago and it really bugged me that I had to allow the application to use the offline cache.

I'd like to know if some web developer has decided to use 5 GB of offline storage for their app.

IIRC most (all?) browsers prompt you when usage goes above a certain limit (5MB, I think). Firefox was the only one that asked you before the site saved a single byte.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by mhurron »

revasm wrote: post #39
spindritf wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the appropriate plugins and how do I find out if I have them? I have an Intel card and normally use mplayer-vaapi[1] to get hardware acceleration for decoding. [1] https://launchpad.net/~sander-vangrieken/+archive/vaapi

At a minimum you'll need gstreamer1.0 and gst-plugins-ugly[1]. Perhaps gst-libav[2] would be an alternative to plugins-ugly. OT: Check out http://mpv.io/ . It's a forked mplayer2 with native support for libva: mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=vaapi [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html [2] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-libav.html

I believe it is Gstreamer 0.10.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917

Gstreamer 1.0 is a work in progress.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by erichurkman »

See also the Firefox 26 for Developers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/26

And Site Compatibility for Firefox 26, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/26/Site...

Of note, images with EXIF rotation data are now rotated correctly! And you can inspect :before and :after elements in the built-in inspector finally.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by handsomeransoms »

Ygg2 wrote: post #15

I have a silly request, can timings on Network tab be displayed on mouse hover? I hate having to click to measure which part took much time? This is @Mozilla Web inspector

Should be pretty easy to add that functionality! File a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org. In fact, this would make a great first bug for a new contributor :)

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by bryanlarsen »

_sabe_ wrote: post #61

How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.

A lot of software is developed via some sort of agile software process these days. This means a new version of the software quite regularly, released on a time basis rather than a feature basis. This is what made version numbers meaningless. There are three common solutions:

time based: Ubuntu 12.04

increment the major number: Chrome 31

increment the minor number, never or rarely changing the major numbers: Linux 2.6.39

None of these solutions work well.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by achairapart »

Firefox 25 hanged most of the time, it seems was because of Firebug. I disabled Firebug.

Firefox 26 hangs at start up. CPU stuck at 100%. Almost 1 GB of ram used with 1 tab open (I can't even open a new one).

What happened, Mozilla?

I'm giving up with this browser.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by ushi »

mhurron wrote: post #74
revasm wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At a minimum you'll need gstreamer1.0 and gst-plugins-ugly[1]. Perhaps gst-libav[2] would be an alternative to plugins-ugly. OT: Check out http://mpv.io/ . It's a forked mplayer2 with native support for libva: mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=vaapi [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html [2] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-libav.html

I believe it is Gstreamer 0.10. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917 Gstreamer 1.0 is a work in progress.

Yes, that's right. Works with gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins on Arch Linux.
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