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Fireox 57.0.
Seems really fast!
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Abhinav S wrote: Seems really fast!
Until it doesn't. 
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Jeremy Falcon
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How often does it crash? Can it handle HTML5? I stopped using the 'old' Firefox due to the things it couldn't do, not it's speed record.
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Jim_Snyder wrote: due to the things it couldn't do
I could write a very fast browser that didn't do anything.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I can't remember the last time I saw a proper Firefox crash. I had a few issues with graphics drivers when they first turned on e10s, but the latest nVidia drivers seems to have fixed that.
Yes, it handles HTML5. FF57 has turned on the date and time input types, which were previously hidden behind a flag.
Firefox Quantum 57 for developers - Mozilla | MDN[^]
What were the things it couldn't do?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I use a variety of browsers. It's rare that any of them crashes. I certainly don't get the "it crashes all the time" that some users often report about every browser.
But I agree speed is just one feature.
Kevin
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On the other hand, it took them 15 years and 57 major revisions to get there.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Abhinav S wrote: Seems really fast!
Fast at doing what, exactly? The only thing that appeared fast to me was how much my annoyance grew.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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It is definitely much faster than it was - even on my iPad.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Thanks. Very nice, but obviously I don't notice any difference with the pages I usually visit. Time to say thanks for first microsoftening their product and then installing it without asking.
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Hmmm, haven't really had chance to test, but seems too take longer connecting to a page but once the connection is made it seems like it faster, sounds like instead of remotely accessing certain features it downloads them and goes from there...
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It depends.
Two websites I visit every day, maybe several times, have been annoying me because they have used several / many seconds to come up, even when connected via fiber. With the new FF, one of them now comes up in a split second, while the other one is slower than ever. So the reasons for the slowness must have been different for those two sites, even though it appeared very similar.
The long delay was, for both, in the first phase, which I assume is the connect phase, before the wheel switched to the opposite direction of spinning. Once the wheel turned, both were "reasonably" fast. With the new FF, there is no longer any spinning wheel, so you can't see the phases of the setup.
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If you notice, it uses a lot less memory than before; maybe a 75% improvement through passive observations.
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jgakenhe wrote: 75% improvement through passive observations
Oh I missed that. They really tweaked their engine.
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When you load it up now, it creates 3 different processes with a total of about 100 threads. Each page now has it's own process with about 45 different threads. That seams like an awful lot of resources to me. I don't know who architected it but that seems excessive compared to what it does.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Not tried it yet, heard some add-ons have issues.
Not that I have many add-ons but still figured wait till that gets sorted.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Lopatir wrote: heard some add-ons have issues.
They've moved to WebExtensions, which means legacy add-ons don't work unless ported. Many have not been, some can't be and others can't be with equivalent functionality, since the old extensions model is more powerful.
Kevin
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Firefox is my default browser but, tbh, I never really notice these supposed differences in speed that the browser vendors tout. If they exist they are trivial in comparison to network latency or even just ease of navigation (e.g., Firefox's superior navigation in its address bar).
Kevin
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I've just installed in my fathers old computer...
It works wondefully well...
Thank you for posting!
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WTF of the day:
He believes what he believes, including that the Earth is flat. He knows this thought is a conundrum, given that he’s about to launch himself into the atmosphere.
Down the road, he’s intending to build a rocket that takes him to space, so he can snap a picture and see with his own eyes.
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...and you wonder why his neighbors call him a 'space cadet'!
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Well, once he does take those pics, he'll undoubtedly come up with a theory of how as you go higher and higher off the surface of the earth, the atmosphere creates a sense of curvature, and of course needing to throw in Einstein, as all these new-age idiots do, they'll start babbling about space-time curvature affecting the camera lens.
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My wife has been using that excuse about pictures of her for years...
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Have you told her that only a very large mass can bend space sufficiently, and that noticable gravity comes long before any optical effect?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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