Firefox 61.0 Released

Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by woumn on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @11:21AM (#17401260)

I always get so excited for new Firefox releases. Then I read the patch notes and never see that they've fixed performance for MacOS. I've tried everything I can find online, but Firefox just performs so terribly on my Macbook Pro. In the meantime, I use Opera (with little to no complaints).

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by greglindahl on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:40PM (#17402072)

I've used 6 different Macs over the past decade and none of them have ever had this issue. I'm not saying that you're wrong about your experience, but that it's not like it affects 100% of Firefox's quite large Mac userbase.

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by mythmon_ on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:41PM (#17402601)

It may not be in the release notes, but this release has some performance improvements specifically on OSX.

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by matt2000 on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:09PM (#17402798)

I'm having the same experience: high CPU usage, slow typing response and big battery usage. Will see if 61.0 helps at all.

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by rhencke on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:04PM (#17401709)

What issues do you hit? I've been running on two MacBook Pros (one mid-2012, one mid-2015) and never had any issues. Everything's smooth as butter.

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by tapoxi on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:40PM (#17402074)

I think the last time I ran into this issue it was a bug involving DPI scaling. If you're not running at the "default" scale, you'll have performance problems.

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by driverdan on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:30PM (#17402953)

I also have performance issues. High CPU usage with minimal tabs. I regularly see 20% of a core with around 10 tabs open.

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