Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by beezischillin on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:18PM (#18973772)

Yeah, even with all the speed increases from the rewrite, Firefox still feels awkward and slow at times when compared to Safari and Chrome. Every time I decide to try and switch over from Safari, I get pages where scroll performance is a lot slower than what I'm used to and then I get bothered by it and switch back.

It annoys me because I really want to use it. I'm very happy that we have it and I hope that the wider community will hold Mozilla to account every time they try something shady to protect the best free and open browser we have. If we lose Firefox, we lose the Internet to corporations.

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by novaRom on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:26PM (#18973868)

This is strange, because Firefox is much faster than Safari for me. Have you tried Firefox Nightly?

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by beezischillin on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:27PM (#18973880)

I haven't but I'll give it a shot, thank you!

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by the8472 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:40PM (#18974011)

If you want to try their experimental GPU rendering (webrender) you can enable it via about:config -> gfx.webrender.all = true

It works well on windows, I don't know how far the mac support is.

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by cpeterso on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:57PM (#18974176)

Note that the WebRender can only be enabled in the Firefox Nightly channel. To confirm that it's working, flip the pref, restart Firefox Nightly, and then search for "WebRender" in about:support.

WebRender does work on macOS (and Android and maybe Linux), but Mozilla is prioritizing a Windows MVP first (because something like 90% of Firefox users are on Windows). Work on macOS, Linux, and Android will then resume.

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:38PM (#18973983)

Also good to start with a fresh profile[1], lots of times you may have some cruft built up in an old profile.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by feanaro on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:30AM (#18978356)

> I'm very happy that we have it and I hope that the wider community will hold Mozilla to account every time they try something shady to protect the best free and open browser we have. If we lose Firefox, we lose the Internet to corporations.

Yet how long will we have it if everyone keeps using excuses to continue using Chrome?

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