Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

Throrik said:
It's based on Firefox ESR - so it'll be based around 140 at the moment. It doesn't seem to be written anywhere on the homepage, but if you go into the changelogs you can see that the 6.6.x version is based on ESR 140.

www.waterfox.com

6.6.0 - Major ESR 140 upgrade with vertical tabs, tab groups, and new tab experience - Waterfox Release

Waterfox 6.6.0 upgrades the underlying platform from ESR 128 to 140 and introduces first-party vertical tabs, private tabs, tab grouping, new tab wallpapers, expanded media and hardware acceleration, and privacy-friendly defaults.
www.waterfox.com www.waterfox.com
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Nice one, thanks.
 
Is anybody noticing that some cookies for some sites are being removed? I'm not sure if it's uBlock Origin doing this or Firefox and I don't know to tell, other than disabling uBo for a day or two.

My own suspicion is a uBo filter list, as I have seen some list delete cookies - but it's find out which list.
 
If you have particular sites in mind and you disable UBO on those sites, couldn't that suggest that it is not causing the issue..?
I had something similar, not just with FF, but that was when I used a web based extension for my VPN. It would have certain filtering applied, it seems, above that of the settings being available to allow some sites to accept cookies and for the browser to retain them.
 
darael said:
Is anybody noticing that some cookies for some sites are being removed? I'm not sure if it's uBlock Origin doing this or Firefox and I don't know to tell, other than disabling uBo for a day or two.

My own suspicion is a uBo filter list, as I have seen some list delete cookies - but it's find out which list.
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I've got a reinstall of the OS coming soon so thinking my firefox is likely needing a refresh but I have noticed firefox with UBo not being as good as it used to be when loading stuff in general.

Part of me thinks it's lazy coders focusing purely on chrome specific code (back to the good old internet explorer days...) and part of me is thinking it's firefox just not being as compatible as it used to be, throw in a healthy dose of their 'semi privacy' focused approach with their tracking protection shield etc.

I don't want to use a chromium based browser but at the rate things are going if I want a 'seemless' browsing experience that might be the only way... I will be trying waterfox (and maybe some others) again which I have used in the past but it had compatibility issues for some sites I used.
 
Firefox is still locking up for me, only happens on YouTube. Firefox freezes and the CPU hits ~13% for a single process. I tried Edge but the number of add was crazy.
 
FredFlint said:
Firefox is still locking up for me, only happens on YouTube. Firefox freezes and the CPU hits ~13% for a single process. I tried Edge but the number of add was crazy.
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This isn't normal. You have an extension, third party software or video driver problem.
 
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cadmunkey said:
Firefox becoming a pain now, anyone used Brave browser?
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Yeah increasingly I use it more, on the PC and Android. Removes a lot of the bloats and and spam from websites. Sites that were unreadable and unusable are greatly improved. I've not made it my default yet. But I'm close to. Some sites I only look at in Brave now.
 
I still use Firefox, but often disable Hardware Acceleration, as Youtube can crash out of the blue, whilst it won't in something like Edge - so often leave it all to the CPU to handle (especially given I have a 7950X so has plenty of cores and memory on tap so the GPU can be used for other things then). And of course, there's no HDR display support for Youtube in Firefox (in Windows) at this time (still), which again something like Edge has. So may switch over to something else at some point if it continues to add resource hogs into it that I don't need for general browsing or youtube video watching.
 
Meddling-Monk said:
I still use Firefox, but often disable Hardware Acceleration, as Youtube can crash out of the blue, whilst it won't in something like Edge - so often leave it all to the CPU to handle (especially given I have a 7950X so has plenty of cores and memory on tap so the GPU can be used for other things then). And of course, there's no HDR display support for Youtube in Firefox (in Windows) at this time (still), which again something like Edge has. So may switch over to something else at some point if it continues to add resource hogs into it that I don't need for general browsing or youtube video watching.
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The lack of HDR support is about the only thing I can criticise FF for - personally not had any problems with it in terms of crashing, occasionally have to dig in about:config to disable things which should be in options like requesting Windows pin on certain sites like Amazon :(

Only time I've had to mess about with performance settings is when running FF in a VM as sometimes that doesn't play nice.
 
The recent Firefox 145 > 146 update has knocked out Personas for me so that the UI reverts back to the system colours. Luckily I use the portable version of FF on 3 machines, so I was able to pull FF 145 from another machine. Going on Google, it seems to be a known issue, so I have turned off the automatic updates to prevent it from going to FF 146 until the issue is resolved.
 
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