Thanks Mozilla Firefox

Posted by diminish on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:26AM
from the self-post dept.

This morning I woke up - feeling good for some reason which then I remembered: I had installed Firefox 57 on Ubuntu and Android and experienced the new speed. It may seem a small update in some small open source software but it results in an improvement in the lives of hundreds of millions of people in 1 day.

So thanks Mozilla, Firefox and open source software in general.

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by woumn on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:45PM (#15724779)

Unfortunately, the update for Mac doesn't solve the battery usage issue.

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by wirddin on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:34PM (#15725269)

Can confirm this. It drains the battery.

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by xcoding on Sunday November 19, 2017 @03:49AM (#15732953)

Loving Firefox since 2005 on Windows, Linux. Awesome release.

A bit annoying is crashing on Android while using more than 5 tabs, phone is completely crashing, have to restart again.

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by MightySCollins on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:40PM (#15724093)

I have been using Nightly for sending time and glad people get to experience the numerous improvements

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by ekr on Friday November 17, 2017 @07:46PM (#15727140)

I've also been using Nightly since about 2 months ago, when I noticed how fast it became. However, it does have its share of glitches. For instance switching between tabs with C-S-Tab, doesn't take me to the previous tab, but jumps seemingly at random (this doesn't always happen but it does happen often enough to be annoying).

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by dabockster on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:43PM (#15726228)

Same here. I remember trying Nightly in 2010 and having be super unstable. Coming back after years on Google Chrome, Nightly feels super stable and responsive.

I do get the occasional rendering issue, but that's my only nitpick.

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by kazinator on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:32PM (#15732108)

Looks like complete shit; breaks add-ons.

I reverted back to 56 after 5 minutes of using this garbage release.

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Re:Thanks Mozilla Firefox by kazinator on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:24PM (#15734786)

Wife has 57 running on her older model laptop (Win7, 32 bit). Just found her trying to kill firefox because it was too slow; she was dismayed by the proliferation of multiple firefox.exe processes instead of the usual one. (I advised about "kill process tree"; seems to have worked).

Faster, my left foot.

Not in any real sense for the everyday user.

Task manager is still your best friend.

To add insult to injury, the "Restart firefox" extension (your other best friend) is gone.

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