Firefox 29?

Rroff · 7 Apr 2015 at 02:09

Its just going downhill and downhill for me from 34.0.5 onwards, 36.0.4 was frequently losing my previous session tabs on startup on 2 systems, had to use about:config to change the new tab url to about:blank or it would come up with invalid address or sometimes crash on opening a new tab, performance is bottoming out 37 seems to be struggling to stay responsive in one tab if a site on another tab is remotely busy and complex sites are taking 2-3x longer to load than before 34 not to mention the other UI issues...

Almost ready to swap to internet explorer.

Elevon · 7 Apr 2015 at 09:29

Rroff said:
Its just going downhill and downhill for me from 34.0.5 onwards, 36.0.4 was frequently losing my previous session tabs on startup on 2 systems, had to use about:config to change the new tab url to about:blank or it would come up with invalid address or sometimes crash on opening a new tab, performance is bottoming out 37 seems to be struggling to stay responsive in one tab if a site on another tab is remotely busy and complex sites are taking 2-3x longer to load than before 34 not to mention the other UI issues...

Almost ready to swap to internet explorer.

Try disabling hardware acceleration,also remove all your old FF profiles.

Personally no issues for me,still fast as ever.

Phonesis · 7 Apr 2015 at 10:08

I'm a long time FF user and have stuck with it even during bad patches. However, due to Chrome defaulting to HTML5 on YouTube a couple of weeks back I decided to give it a go. As soon as I installed a nice custom theme and some extensions, set up Sync, bookmarks etc, I was pretty much sold on Chrome over FF. It just seems smoother and runs far better on Macs than FF seems to. There is also the issue with FF never supporting iOS. So, after many years, it's goodbye FF from me.

Rroff · 7 Apr 2015 at 10:40

Elevon said:
Try disabling hardware acceleration,also remove all your old FF profiles.

Personally no issues for me,still fast as ever.

Its not just on one system - some like the tablet I'm on now is a fresh install of 37 with no prior versions.

KIA · 7 Apr 2015 at 11:27

Rroff said:
Almost ready to swap to internet explorer.

mrk · 12 May 2015 at 21:01

Firefox 38 came out today, best get updating

Changes include improved rendering performance, HTML5 changes, seems Youtube HTML5 is back, options page is in its own tab now like Chrome, but better and various other fixes/changes.

V F · 12 May 2015 at 22:52

Curious, what is peoples start up time? Under Help, Firefox Health Report. As well as date for stability from last crash.

mrk · 12 May 2015 at 22:57

That's pretty cool, never knew that page existed!

Based on 3 pinned tabs (Netvibes, Feedly and GMail) loading up on each cold startup and whatever tabs I had open after them if I didn't close any before closing Firefox.

Will compare this after a week of using v38.

mad_weegie · 13 May 2015 at 12:14

http://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/cyberfox-intel-version-x64

much better

demonix · 15 May 2015 at 17:10

mrk said:
Firefox 38 came out today, best get updating

Changes include improved rendering performance, HTML5 changes, seems Youtube HTML5 is back, options page is in its own tab now like Chrome, but better and various other fixes/changes.

And 38.0.1 just came out which explains why I was being told that firefox was up to date when it was on version 37.0.2

Trifid · 15 May 2015 at 19:29

mrk said:
Firefox 38 came out today, best get updating

Changes include improved rendering performance, HTML5 changes, seems Youtube HTML5 is back, options page is in its own tab now like Chrome, but better and various other fixes/changes.

How do you get Youtube HTML5?

Disco_P · 15 May 2015 at 20:32

Go to about:config and search for "media.mediasource.webm.enabled" and enable it

Restart firefox

Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and enable it

Trifid · 15 May 2015 at 22:02

Cheers.

mrk · 15 May 2015 at 22:09

Those are some long start times :eek:

Trifid · 15 May 2015 at 22:29

My poor old PC.

joeyjojo · 18 May 2015 at 09:20

Disco_P said:
Go to about:config and search for "media.mediasource.webm.enabled" and enable it

Restart firefox

Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and enable it

Ahhhh no small lag when waiting for the Flash plugin to load, so nice!

P.S. didn't even need to restart FF.

mortals · 18 May 2015 at 13:43

Just looking at maybe moving to firefox from chrome as the new chrome bookmarking system looks like it was designed for tablets

Does anyone use any bookmarks sync addons or should I just use the mozilla sync? (need to sync across linux, windows & maybe android)

mrk · 18 May 2015 at 13:47

No reason to use addons when Firefox Sync will sync whatever you need across platforms perfectly. In turn you can cross send tabs between devices this way too.

V_R · 18 May 2015 at 14:10

mortals said:
Just looking at maybe moving to firefox from chrome as the new chrome bookmarking system looks like it was designed for tablets

Does anyone use any bookmarks sync addons or should I just use the mozilla sync? (need to sync across linux, windows & maybe android)

You can disable the stupid bookmarks in chrome.

http://www.omgchrome.com/disable-chromes-new-bookmark-manager/

mortals · 18 May 2015 at 14:46

V_R said:
You can disable the stupid bookmarks in chrome.

http://www.omgchrome.com/disable-chromes-new-bookmark-manager/

Nice

I didn't realise you could disable it.
I messaged google twice a few weeks ago questioning why bookmarks had changed and if I could disable it.
They didn't reply back

I've setup firefox sync and imported bookmarks now

I have had both chrome and firefox installed for testing webdev stuff but might give firefox a try as my main browser just to see if it's better/worse.