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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by overcast on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:24PM (#14974307)
How has the nightly been for you in terms of stability? Been thinking of switching to it from beta. The memory issues on MacOS are killing me, and I believe there are fixes in nightly now.
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by kibwen on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:30PM (#14974759)
IME, desktop nightly hasn't ever outright crashed (less lucky with mobile nightly). Sometimes I notice minor rendering glitches on various sites, but I also have Servo's CSS engine enabled which might be doing it (it's not yet the default).
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by littlestymaar on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:36AM (#14978633)
Well, it used to crash a lot at some point : when e10s was first activated by default in Nightly (in 2013 IIRC) it crashed several times a day. I stopped using nightly for a year afterwards.
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by overcast on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:42PM (#14974839)
Yeh it doesn't crash for me, it just chews up memory until it's unusable. SO far so go though. We'll see how it last through the night.
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