Firefox 51.0 = bye chrome

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And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his servants,[c] ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
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Still has the odd crashes on Android when I zoom in on certain webpages.

And e10s seems to be disabled for me still, but I found the addon that was causing it.

But 2017 is when Servo parts starts trickling down into the browser right? Might give it a go later in the year.
 
What cpu and gpu? Much smoother and 20% less cpu usage for me over chrome. This with an i5 6500 and GTX 960.
 
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The release comments say

Another enhancement delivers improved video performance for users that don’t benefit from any GPU acceleration. This has been achieved through reducing CPU usage and the promise of a better full-screen experience.
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and

The effort, code-named "Electrolysis" (shortened to "e10s"), separated Firefox's operation into more than one CPU process. The practice lets the browser take advantage of multi-processor systems for better performance, and segregates the browser's user interface (UI) and content to keep Firefox from fully crashing when a website or web app fails.

Other browsers, including Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome, already support multiple processes, albeit differently. Safari relies on a single process for the rendering engine, then spawns a new process for each tab's content. Meanwhile, Chrome assigns a new rendering process to each new tab.

Mozilla will eventually get to a Safari-style model, but the open-source developer is moving there in measured steps. Today's Firefox 49 was the second, and is to be followed by November's Firefox 50, which will further expand the multi-process audience.

The e10s edition of Firefox 49 will be offered to those users who only run one or more of a small number of third-party browser add-ons that Mozilla has identified as compatible with the process separation. Firefox 50 e10s will reach even more users as Mozilla gives the green light to a larger group of add-ons.
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so, if you have a gpu may have no benfit and unclear if e10's may come at the price of additional memory use.

given the need to re-qualify add-ons (usually the biggest issue during a ff upgarde) I will hold off

wait and see if they update browser benchmarks too
 
For those who use FF how does it do when synchronizing across devices....? That was one of my main reasons for moving over the Chrome. For me it just works across phones, tablets and PC's.

I like the way that Chrome works on my phone and how it handles tabs. The reviews for FF don't seem that good when read over at the Play store.
 
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For those who use FF how does it do when synchronizing across devices....? That was one of my main reasons for moving over the Chrome. For me it just works across phones, tablets and PC's.

I like the way that Chrome works on my phone and how it handles tabs. The reviews for FF don't seem that good when read over at the Play store.
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It works, but I found it sometimes didn't sync instantly so I had to open up the sync settings and tap the sync button to force sync it.
 
Still using FF as my main browser and can't really complain. Chrome is fast and snappy, but offering my entire browsing patterns up for free to Google is a step way too far.
 
about sync'ing - presumably with chrome this is done via your google account ? (or can you be more private).
I have not tried the FF sync and after reading doc not clear whether bookmark/tabs are also stored in the cloud.

Saying that, I similarly use FF as main browser, but on a tablet use Edge, so would like a more versatile syncing solution, for tabs predominately -
are there better options than xmarks which is a bit clunky, and itself, also uses cloud ?
 
With Edge not being available for Android that was going to be a non starter as synchronising bookmarks etc is pretty important to me across devices and platforms.

Yes Chrome sync's via my Google account and I'm not bothered with what they are analysing from that data any more than I'm overly bothered about what they could already be analysing from my Android devices.

As noted Chrome with multiple tabs works well on my phone and that was one area in the past I found FF lacking, with partial synchronisation and or Android implementation compared to Chrome.

When I used to login to my FF sync settings to try and edit the "master" saved settings, if that makes sense, I found that hit and miss.
I did like how sync can save addons as well, although pointless for Android.
 
No issues before with 4K, no issues now either on 51 64bit. No issues ever with Firefox really... It's fast, efficient and has things no other browser does. So I'm sticking with it.
 
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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