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Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by lucb1e »

acdha wrote: post #47
lucb1e wrote: post #43

Firefox 3: Yay! Firefox 3.6: Let's see what's new! Firefox 4: oooh pretty UI (at least that's what most thought) Firefox 26: sigh another one? I think only every 10 versions should be news. Since they moved to this useless release cycle (basically replacing bugfix releases with major releases), we should shift our news upvoting from major releases to major-major releases (i.e. treat the decimal sign as if it were 2.6…

> I think only every 10 versions should be news Numbers aren't intrinsically important – what would be really nice is saving the announcements for specific features of note.

> Numbers aren't intrinsically important

True, so yeah I stand corrected about that. Now, can we tell Mozilla this and get off this ridicul^H^H^Hrapid release cycle?

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by DanBC »

nodata wrote: post #80
JangoSteve wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically speaking, "released" can also be a state, so "is released" (as in "is in the released state") works too.

Technically maybe, but when has a native speaker ever written that?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russian-bisex...

> Russian bisexual activist Irina Putilova is released from detention and taken off fast-track asylum list

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/12/10/godzilla-trailer-i...

Headline 'Godzilla' Trailer Is Released

There are very many other examples of native English speakers using released like these two examples.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by bzbarsky »

benjamincburns wrote: post #24

Maybe I'm biased, but jor1k is my FF benchmark of choice these days. Sadly I'm not seeing any major performance increase over FF 25 (posting this from jor1k via links [1]). 1: http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k (had to edit in the link as the ':' and '-' keys don't appear to be working)

I get about 170MIPS in Firefox 25 on that link. I get about 173MIPS in Firefox 26. A nightly is at about 179MIPS.

Chrome on the same hardware is at 80MIPS for me, so I think Firefox is doing OK here...

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by dragonwriter »

nodata wrote: post #80
JangoSteve wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically speaking, "released" can also be a state, so "is released" (as in "is in the released state") works too.

Technically maybe, but when has a native speaker ever written that?

> Technically maybe, but when has a native speaker ever written that?

"X is released" is the most common way I've seen native speakers write it, though there is a common trend on the internet in the last few years (which may be largely driven by non-native speakers) to reverse the usual role of subject and object of the verb "release" and say "X releases".

"X has been released" is, AFAICT, far less common than even the new "X releases" construction.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#95

Post by bzbarsky »

yeukhon wrote: post #41
benjamincburns wrote: post #24

Maybe I'm biased, but jor1k is my FF benchmark of choice these days. Sadly I'm not seeing any major performance increase over FF 25 (posting this from jor1k via links [1]). 1: http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k (had to edit in the link as the ':' and '-' keys don't appear to be working)

Give Firefox time. Mozilla is really small, compared to Chrome... and Firefox is stable! Hehehe. css transform is still a major performance sucker. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=css%20t...

Firefox beats the pants off Chrome on benjamincburns's testcase, at least for me.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by nhebb »

verytrivial wrote: post #67
riquito wrote: post #21

> Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible (847223) ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223 ) This is pretty cool

And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.

If you were to construct a graph of all the features implemented by one browser and then copied by the others, after a while it would look like a chain link fence.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by saidajigumi »

achairapart wrote: post #78

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.

Anecdata: I use FF heavily on a daily basis and haven't seen any of these problems. Issues of this magnitude are "set the internet on fire" problems. If a few web searches don't turn up tons of other users having these problems then it's best to assume there are local issues that need troubleshooting. Some suggestions on that:

1. Have you tried troubleshooting Firefox via Safe Mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-is...

2. If troubleshooting via #1 doesn't help, consider using the Profile Manager[1] to create a new, blank profile and see if your problems reproduce there.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Profile_Manager

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#98

Post by mythmon_ »

_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.

Because the version of Firefox increments by one every 6 weeks, and whatever features are ready get included. This is a over simplification of the process. For more info you can read this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Release_Process.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by omaranto »

RussianCow wrote: post #83
3rd3 wrote: post #70

I wished they would improve the PDF viewer.

How would you like it improved? I rather like it as it is--I've completely stopped using Adobe Reader, in fact--but I'm curious to know what you think is missing.

Speed mainly: it's unbearable on my machines. But maybe I'm a niche market: cheapskates with 5 year old laptops.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#100

Post by x0054 »

spindritf wrote: post #50
lawl wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's a good thing for the open web. :'( Then again I do like that I can watch more YouTube Videos in a reasonable resolution now. Most webm transcodes are just available in low quality.

I just download youtube videos[1]. It has many advantages over youtube.com. Hardware acceleration is one but also no stalling when skipping ahead, no disappearing videos that you planned to watch later, no need to sign in. Actually, youtube as a repository of material for download works much better than youtube as a streaming site. [1] http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

On OSX I highly recommend YouView[1]. It streams H.264, and CPU usage during playback is 1/3 of what the browser player uses. I guess it really inconsequential unless you are on a laptop. On a laptop it's a difference in 1-1.5 hours of battery life.

[1] https://mrgeckosmedia.com/applications/info/YouView

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