Upcoming Firefox 57 ("Quantum") is twice as fast as Firefox 52
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thanks (need to review existing add-on before I finally take the Quantum jump)
I am not sure if script blockers or tracking/cookie blockers can cause access to web-sites to be slowed down ? whether javsacript can have counter-measures
I subsequently saw FF may have something built in too, need to understand the difference
https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/6r0hgh/duckduckgo_plus_addon_for_ff_with_tracker_blocking/
head over to “about
references#privacy”click the black-blue link that’s says “manage your Do Not Track settings.”
Tick “Always apply Do Not Track”
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Duckduckgo and firefox tracking protection use the same definition list.
Firefox tracking protection works on mobile, duckduckgo extension does not.
Duckduckgo also provides the same fuctionality as https everywhere.
Duckduckgo also displays a privacy rating.
So I have both on. Haven't noticed it being slow, if anything it feels faster.
Firefox tracking protection works on mobile, duckduckgo extension does not.
Duckduckgo also provides the same fuctionality as https everywhere.
Duckduckgo also displays a privacy rating.
So I have both on. Haven't noticed it being slow, if anything it feels faster.
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I've added an important setting, as follows:
- First Party Isolation ON
Basic description of what it is and how to enable it:
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/11/22/how-to-enable-first-party-isolation-in-firefox/
Discussion on the topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925
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Exactly. If you have DuckDuckGo extension installed there's no need to also have HTTPS Everywhere.
Shall uninstall when I get home, ta.
so with this, everything is compartmentalised, no sites access cookies from other domains, if, that is, you permit a cookie to be created at all, for that domain, with DDG or FF whitelist.
The only con seems to be google where a google domain cookie enables utube logon too.
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Yeah, but personally I haven't seen anything break yet, like.. at all.
I wonder if firefox has finally shaken of the garbage collection "hitches".
e.g. smooth scrolling a page would stutter every few seconds when GC code running, that made me jump to chrome.
Chrome weakness is for sure the insane memory usage, and to lesser degree the less power user friendliness (less tunables).
If firefox fixed their achiles heel I probably would move back, although a problem firefox now has also is they killed of legacy extensions which has left large gaps in functionality as many of the dev's abandoned firefox as a result.
e.g. smooth scrolling a page would stutter every few seconds when GC code running, that made me jump to chrome.
Chrome weakness is for sure the insane memory usage, and to lesser degree the less power user friendliness (less tunables).
If firefox fixed their achiles heel I probably would move back, although a problem firefox now has also is they killed of legacy extensions which has left large gaps in functionality as many of the dev's abandoned firefox as a result.
I badly worded that -
with the draconian add-on signing with the newer ff versions, I suspect they may soon clear-out/delete these older add-ons, especially since they will no longer be compatible with >=57
so if I need to re-install pre-57 firefoxes, I will need to archive the compatible add-ons.
The older FF's, providing you have demand loading of tabs is already economic on memory, and the diet I recently gave chrome, 'The great Discarder' add-on, works well.
there are a bout 40loaded tabs in Firefox, 20 in waterfox and 10 in chrome - but I am probably not typical.
I use the great suspender but this is interesting
I could probably live with the disadvantages.
I just asked this question, I dont know if you have the answer.
"Does this remember if tabs are discarded on shutdown so they stay discarded on startup? If no my chrome with over 150 tabs will use insane memory on startup and load slowly."
for me, in chrome, the great discarder, reloads all the tabs which then go to sleep after 30 minutes if not used.
in firefox I use the native capability, where session restore leaves all, bar the current tab, unloaded ... so ff solution is better
Redid some of my extensions at the weekend:
Switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden, so much quicker and the switch was pretty painless had to manually change some passwords that were exported due to a bug with Lastpass,
Decentraleyes,
Tested with privacy badger instead of DDG PE but I prefer DDG PE.
Switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden, so much quicker and the switch was pretty painless had to manually change some passwords that were exported due to a bug with Lastpass,
Decentraleyes,
Tested with privacy badger instead of DDG PE but I prefer DDG PE.
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v59.0.3 just came through, compatability for the new Win 10 Spring update.
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Apparently v60 is on its way with "promoted links" on the new tab page
Is it me or is 59.0.3 more "snappy"? seems much more responsive when clicking links than 59.0.2 and smoother scrolling down large pages.
EDIT: Something has definitely changed though not sure what/where - my local news site is a cluster **** of a site and used to hang the browser for a second or so on first loading and very sluggish scrolling down the bloated page (with or without blocking ads and other elements) - now it fluidly scrolls with content popping in rather than stalling periodically.
EDIT: Something has definitely changed though not sure what/where - my local news site is a cluster **** of a site and used to hang the browser for a second or so on first loading and very sluggish scrolling down the bloated page (with or without blocking ads and other elements) - now it fluidly scrolls with content popping in rather than stalling periodically.
Did you install the Spring Creators update for Windows 10? Only change for 59.0.3 is support for that, nothing else on the release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/59.0.3/releasenotes/
Although reading the bug report that the release notes links to it seems some code that's existed within FF for years has been doing the wrong thing but never did anything wrong until Microsoft "patched" it.
Although reading the bug report that the release notes links to it seems some code that's existed within FF for years has been doing the wrong thing but never did anything wrong until Microsoft "patched" it.
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