Still on 56, sadly. The addons crucial for my workflow have stopped working. Shame these concerns were not properly addressed, even after months of clamour about breaking changes like these.
What add-ons?
Firefox 59 released
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Re: Firefox 59 released
#92A little OT, but how can I enable/use the Screenshots feature? I cannot find it.
Right click -> Take a Screenshot
Re: Firefox 59 released
#93Sadly, 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.
hey, I have a similar issue on PC. It's not that the CPU maxes out but that everything grounds to a halt, especially when typing in text boxes on JS-heavy sites.
I'm on HN, right? Totally fine. Amazing browser. I hit up Twitter, and I could be stuck halfway through a tweet and it freezes up for a good minute or two. Same on FB, same on many other sites.
I LOVE the browser but on my laptop (Thinkpad), I had to switch back to Chrome.
The issues came about with the Quantum update for me as well.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#94Congratulations! What's the memory usage like compare to earlier versions?
Looking at that bug, one problem with implementing the nonstandard "mousewheel" event is that the browsers that implement it have different behavior in terms of what the delta value means, so sites using it tend to do browser sniffing to decide how to handle it. Which means implementing it is likely to break sites unless you exactly match the UA string and behavior of some other browser. Given that, and given that Fi…
(I think this comment was meant to be posted somewhere else…)
Re: Firefox 59 released
#95"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications" Been waiting for this one.
I've been using the beta 59.0bxx series for quite a while and there are plenty of fun settings in about:preferences and about:config. One very important setting from preference, as I push those I know to adopt password managers, is the "Remember logins and passwords for websites" checkbox (don't save them in the browser). Another important security related setting for those with relatively new 2fa tokens is the "security.webauth.u2f" setting in about:config (still set to false by default with Firefox 59).
Re: Firefox 59 released
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking at that bug, one problem with implementing the nonstandard "mousewheel" event is that the browsers that implement it have different behavior in terms of what the delta value means, so sites using it tend to do browser sniffing to decide how to handle it. Which means implementing it is likely to break sites unless you exactly match the UA string and behavior of some other browser. Given that, and given that Fi…
(I think this comment was meant to be posted somewhere else…)
No, I posted it in the right place. Tepix subsequently edited his/her comment, as far as I can tell. The comment I was replying to, about "mousewheel" events, is certainly no longer in evidence.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#97Sadly, 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.
Same. Totally bogs down my maxed out Macbook Pro on some HTML5 video.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#98I switched to Firefox from Chrome at 58. I've been very happy with the experience all around. Keep up the good work, Mozilla!
I too switched for several months, but am already back to using Chrome. Even with the performance improvements, it's still noticeably slower than Chrome.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#99Sadly, 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.
Hi! I'm collecting profiles on cases like yours.
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