Firefox 51.0 = bye chrome

jpaul said:
you want to block the ff updates - yes ?
otherwise you wake up, with new, auto installed version (as bad as win 10) and half the add-ons no longer work as they are incompatible;
usually I install the new version separately, for a check out before commiting, and have a shortcut like this
"C:\Program Files\Waterfox_43\waterfox.exe" -P -no-remote
to assign a new profile.
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This is not an issue, and hasn't been for years.

The only reason it happened before was when add-ons were using the old code/api or whatever it was and Mozilla had a new add-on system in the new version of FF - Developers simply had not updated their add-ons to reflect the next gen system.

If some of your extensions stop working after an update, then blame your extension developer for lazy coding, not Mozilla.

As for Windows 10, it is a better OS than all previous versions of Windows.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Less memory use, way better video acceleration especially for 4k 60 FPS, fast as ****. Yeah I'm back firefox.
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I had random lockups, freezes with FF, so much so I went over to Vivaldi(1.6 latest version) and never looked back, I do have Firefox as backup but never needed it.

Vivaldi never crashed over the many months of use unlike FF regardless of which version or clean install etc...
 
weyland yutani said:
I'm still on version 50.1 from December but FF says I'm up to date :(
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51.0.1 was released yesterday. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/51.0.1/releasenotes/

Seems a bit snappier to render than 50.

On a side note - I noticed the other day that video is finally nice and smooth on my system. E.g. on Twitch I would get dropped frames fairly consistently, now.. none at all. I haven't watched much Twitch in the last few months but the only thing it can be is Firefox upgrades as nothing else has changed.
 
Moved over the Firefox beta on my desktop PC, phone and teblet. Some things must have changed as the sync worked very well across those devices. That used to be an issue for me in the past.
I like how FF handles tabs on Android and so far I'm impressed. Nice to have several choices of how to download YT vids.
 
Is it me or has Amazon added a type of clear type (blurred) font on their webpages in the last few days?

Hate it, its terrible in Firefox, not as bad in chome and ie

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about hardware video decode acceleration : not sure exactly how you confirm which hardware acceleration it is using
using laptop optimus intelHD+nvidia gpu and also have unreliable nvidia inspector tool.
with about:support option I can see it know about gpu.

FF has vertical tabs add-on which is great for landscape view.

The YT download plugin does not seem to work for 4K videos, also saw YT dropped h264 for 4K so that maybe related
 
Balb0wa said:
Is it me or has Amazon added a type of clear type (blurred) font on their webpages in the last few days?

Hate it, its terrible in Firefox, not as bad in chome and ie
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no problem with Amazon fonts here in ff - and no reason why your config might have changed. ?
about:config
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype.always_use_for_content;false


[also usually forbid w/noscript ssl-images-amazon.com otherwise it burns up cpu]
 
I cannot bring myself to use any browser that has a stupid versioning system that has taken it to version 51 :). A few browsers seemed to adopt the same system around the same time .
It's just a browser for goodness sake, not frequently changing drivers or something. I mean heck, Windows has been around for donkey's years and we're only up to version 10.

I use Edge, it works. Used to use Chrome but ditched it, Edge is better :) (for my needs at least)
 
DarrenM343 said:
I cannot bring myself to use any browser that has a stupid versioning system that has taken it to version 51 :). A few browsers seemed to adopt the same system around the same time .
It's just a browser for goodness sake, not frequently changing drivers or something. I mean heck, Windows has been around for donkey's years and we're only up to version 10.

I use Edge, it works. Used to use Chrome but ditched it, Edge is better :) (for my needs at least)
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Chrome is on v56:p

Edge is awful IMO.
 
Is your default search provider for that set to Google UK?

Seems fine here:

ffsearchbar.jpg


VS

ffsearchbar_2.jpg

Good thing is if the address bar suggestions are not relevant, just click the first one, to push that search query to the Google site instead.

You only get 5 suggestions in the address bar of course.

Personally I find Chrome pants, the interface isn't useful at all (menubar/layout), and Edge... let's not even get started, glol.
 
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Don't know, I manually set mine to Google UK years ago and it never changed since then.
 
with FF, I set it so keywords on address bar complete on history/bookmark items and identifying/switching-to other open tabs - more useful ?
and if you want slow (inavariably non-)predictive google stuff, do it via google site.
(but needs on a phone/small screen different to a large real-estate,kbd,mouse setup)
 
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