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Firefox 23 is available

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Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by lambda_cube »

I know that the release notes still says Firefox Beta when I submit this, but my browser just updated itself to version 23. The beta release notes usually are pretty accurate when it comes which features will be in the next stable version.

I believe the new baseline compiler is included in this release as described here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/04/05/the-baseline-...

If that is the case it's the most interesting new feature for me, but I'm a compiler guy :-)

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by M4v3R »

> Support for new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 and newer

Finally. That one took quite a long time for them. It looks simple in the change log, but I suspect that it was actually quite a big change under the hood.

EDIT: Woops, it seems that this is an error on release page, since they've hit a regression [1] and they've pulled the feature, it's due to come back in v24. And is seems I was right that this was actually a pretty big change under the hood [2].

EDIT 2: And they now removed the error about new scrollbar from the article.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636564#c244

[2] https://bug636564.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=744...

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by sirn »

For those who upgraded and still see the old scrollbar: despite what Beta Release Note said, Lion-style scrollbar is not in this release due to regression. It will be available in Firefox 24 instead[1]:

>The new scrollbars has been disabled on Beta for Firefox 23 due to a serious regression. It is now scheduled to be released in Firefox 24 as long as there are no serious regressions.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636564

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by 6cxs2hd6 »

I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread.

I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is crash/burn awful, but it adds up to be just irritating enough that it makes me mental. I tolerate it until I can't (for a couple weeks), then switch back to Chrome. Just did so yesterday, which is why I'm ranting in response to this headline.

This on OS X. Couple years ago when I was using Windows 7 all the time, Firefox was great. IME the fit/finish on OS X is not the same.

tl;dr: Firefox, I want to love you and be exclusive. Please change.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by robin_reala »

6cxs2hd6 wrote: post #6

I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread. I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is…

Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep.

That really doesn’t sound like normal behaviour? Have you tried the ‘Reset Firefox’ button on about:support? More info at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-p...

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by ihsw »

The very large banner at the top of the page seems to indicate that this is a beta release, so shouldn't that be indicated in the submission title? I was excited about a new release of Firefox (namely to see if performance improved), but if this is beta then I won't be touching it.
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