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I believe it was supposed to be a little bit faster for Linux users because they switched compilers but the big speed/memory increases are for 7 and 8.
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7 is now Beta and 8 is Aurora now btw. So far the biggest change I see in 8 (although this may had existed in nightly) is that on the first start it gives you a window where you can disable 3rd forced plugins and the Aurora button is blue. I blew out my profile as I was having freezes so I can't really tell if it really is faster than 7 was but it certainly feels like it. BTW, if you experience similar and use Lastpass disable it and use the xpi version instead. Seems to be due to a bug that only happens on x64 systems per a blog post I ran into. https://lastpass.com/lp_no_bin.xpi
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Neu posted:don't they basically list this everytime, but yet firefox still uses a huge amount of memory? A lot of what they were doing before was tweaking cache settings, or claiming that things were fixed but they weren't under conditions that users actually use the program under. They at least seem to be more serious about it this time. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
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Fapos posted:About the fonts, I had a little look around since they had changed again going from beta to aurora with hardware accelleration on and found gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode in about :config has a few options you can try: Adding to this slightly this is what each number means. Default: automatically, based on the font and size Aliased: no anti-aliasing GDI Classic: glyphs can only be positioned on whole-pixel boundaries GDI Natural: same as GDI Classic, but metrics are closer to ideal Natural: anti-aliasing in the horizontal dimension only Natural Symmetric: anti-aliasing in both horizontal and vertical dimensions Outline: bypass the rasterizer and use the outlines directly
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api A direct link to what MS Spy was talking about. Install restart choose what you want to use and restart again and you are good. It's the only reason I use Aurora currently.
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Any idea when the merge is going to take place? I thought it was yesterday but I haven't seen a update yet.
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Sep 29, 2011 01:32
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Fangs404 posted:Go to Help -> About, and FF will update. The merge I was talking about was when 8 is promoted to beta, 9 to Aurora and so forth. It hasn't hit auto update yet but they finally did it this afternoon. I just got so used to the daily updates with Aurora it was freaking me out that it hadn't happened over the last 3 days or so.
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TwoKnives posted:When are we likely to see the Chrome-like UI changes appear in the nightlies, or were those mock-ups just ideas that won't necessarily be implemented? It's in the 10 UX builds which are different than the 10 nightly. http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/25064-firefox_ux I believe this is nightly spot, but I'm not for sure as I'm not running it currently. I do know they are purposely doing it as it's likely to be unstable, even over the normal nightly. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-ux/
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Oct 1, 2011 03:35
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pokecapn posted:You don't need separate processes to do that, firefox's UI thread just likes to lock up. It still may the final frontier that they can work on to improve speed however. The lockup wouldn't be an issue if Firefox loaded the nsfw link above as fast as Chrome does. On my system it can sometimes be a 3-5 second difference on loading that page.
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Oct 16, 2011 01:34
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Well, as long as you are ok with losing desktop composition support in 7 go ahead, but that's off topic. I figure they will end 3.6 support when 10 is ready, so I wouldn't get too comfortable just yet
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The biggest issue is that despite all the work they have done, most of it is so slight that most people didn't see the difference. Every update we kind of go through the same thing "What did they change? it's still slow!" if the engineers can be moved to something that people will notice, at least for a while then maybe the ideas that the only thing Firefox is doing is tweaks to catch the number up to the competition will finally die down. Electrolysis biggest issue was that the only way the average person could see the differences was via benchmarks or checking memory, one that means nothing and the other people don't do correctly so they are still going to call Firefox bloated. If one of the side projects they can work on can mask the pauses and stutters that occur (which is similar to how other browsers deal with them) then I'm all for it. You can fix it in a way that will last later but for right now we need to deal with the problem visually.
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Nice. Didn't know there is some level of support in Aurora. I figured that I would have to wait until 10 filtered down, Triggered it and so far it's all good. To point out something that's in the comments that people who are running Add-on Compatibility Reporter should see. quote:Folks running the Add-on Compatibility Reporter need to do this to test:
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I just go to ninite and create a exe with the top plugins like foxit, flash, java, etc and save it somewhere and make a scheduled task that runs it every week.
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Selavi posted:I just connected a new D-Link WIFI router to my computer, and now whenever I type a single word into the url bar, instead of searching Google, it takes me to the D-link error page. I tried going into about :config, but I think it is a router thing. How can I get my search back? Disable advance DNS service in WAN settings.
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Jan 21, 2012 19:47
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TOOT BOOT posted:They've been talking about improving performance for a very long time time now without much to show for it other than on paper. Arewefastyet.com was registered two *years* ago, and the browser still feels slow compared to Safari, Opera, Chrome, even recent versions of IE. It's not Chrome fast yet, but in the last couple of days Aurora is considerably faster in the one place I can still see it as slow (mfc). As Alereon mentioned they are trying to work on improving how it feels, but in reality it's a lot faster than what people want to give it credit for.
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Feb 11, 2012 03:25
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Yep, they did do something a few versions ago that helps it exit quicker to prevent that prompt from coming up so it shouldn't happen as much as it used to. However, if you still are having it you either have a low memory system where it's taking time to clear swap, or you need a new profile.
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Feb 16, 2012 20:03
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Cool that you fixed it, but it still is probably the perfect time to try a new profile, at least just to test out the new feature in about:support Just make sure to copy the settings to the clipboard first, in case you don't remember all the plugins or about:config tweaks you've done. At least when I did it, it seems to speed things up a bit, probably because I had a lot of extensions.checkcompatibility settings all the way back to 3.6
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This sounds like similar issues I was having with javascript before I made a new profile and started anew. I'm going to say that a new profile is probably the first thing you should do if you are having a issue.
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Mar 23, 2012 15:54
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12 is now out. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-12.0&os=win&lang=en-US
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I'm still getting 12 through the link. The official date is tomorrow anyways, so if you are still getting 11 wait.
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Apr 24, 2012 03:12
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Those always seem to take a couple of days. If I'm recalling correctly the other platforms didn't shift over until 3-4 days later last time.
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Apr 24, 2012 14:37
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The new download interface is in 14 Aurora, but is disabled by default. Go into about:config and change 'browser.download.use.ToolkitUI' to false to enable it. Incremental Garbage Collector is there as well and can be enabled by setting 'javascript.options.mem.gc_incremental' to true. I would use some caution with it however, as I ran into a couple of posts at various places that stated that it hurt performance, although I haven't noticed a problem. As usual, not my fault if your break something.
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Apr 28, 2012 00:33
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Just in case someone runs into it, Xmarks is broken in 14, it will keep saying that the bookmark file is corrupted. They don't support anything but the official version but stated that they will have something ready to support 14 properly in a couple of weeks.
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Apr 30, 2012 17:42
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WattsvilleBlues posted:So what does this actually reimport? I'm assuming it does passwords, bookmarks and settings, but does it restore all your extensions, their settings, and any about :config changes? cookies, saved form history, saved passwords, bookmarks and it's backup. the about :config changes are listed, along with your plugins, so if you want to put some of them back hit the copy to clipboard option and save it to a text file before you try it.
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May 16, 2012 20:03
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I've been using Aurora for a good while - version 14, the current version (until later this week, anyway), is pretty nice regarding UI responsiveness. With a few minor about :config tweaks, Firefox runs pretty nice these days. I'm curious what tweaks you are using, just in case one is something interesting.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Aside from the previous tweak I mentioned, I generally only use the following in about :config: Thanks! didn't know about the mousewheel settings and they made a huge difference. If only I could stop the flash stuttering when hardware acceleration is enabled I would be content.
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Ryokurin posted:Thanks! didn't know about the mousewheel settings and they made a huge difference. If only I could stop the flash stuttering when hardware acceleration is enabled I would be content. As an aside, it seems like the new Flash 11.3, which put Flash into a Sandbox seems to have fixed the stutter.
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/links-open-background-firefox-chrome/ here's some about :config settings that may help
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Reading their forum indicates that the ABP pop up blocker addon is obsolete, so if you have that installed, remove that too as it's natively is taken care of by the program now.
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Alereon posted:I don't think that's true, I'm at work so I can't Google extensively, but Mozilla has posted update metrics on the Planet Mozilla blog that seem to show that users are reliably updating to new Firefox versions once they're on a Rapid Release version. The user experience would certainly have been better if they had laid the update groundwork before moving to Rapid Release, but it was also urgent that they close the innovation gap between Firefox and Google. I'll give him two things that he's right about, they should have fast tracked the extension compatibility settings that were eventually added around 10 to stop some of the chatter about upgrades breaking extensions (not everyone is going to know how to force them to work) and along with this made upgrades silent like Chrome. They pissed off the normal users because all they know is they saw a popup and now their toolbar is gone and power users were pissed off because now they have to spend 20 minutes editing files to get their plugins running again. Even now that those problems are now resolved no one wants to try because they assume it's going to involve work. the main reason no one complains about chrome is because they don't know a change was made. They may notice that something is different in how something acts, or that it's crashy but they rarely put it together that it was because of a upgrade.
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Dice Dice Baby posted:Hijacking what? I use HTTPS Everywhere and would like to know what happened Don't know what problem he had, but I have noticed that the 3.0 experimental does not like Gawker comments, even if you disable it. Not really a big loss.
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xamphear posted:Why don't you just use private browsing mode? I don't tend to use it because you have to restart the browser. That's the one thing that I like that Chrome does that Firefox cant, have a private window along with standard.
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As far as I know the new UI is still a separate build. I haven't heard much about it in a long time however.
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Install Gentoo posted:But I don't see any difference at all in my browsing. Waterfox feels more responsive too. We've been past the point of javascript speed increases being noticeable for around a year now. It was great when Google shamed Mozilla and Microsoft to step up but it's not really a talking point anymore as everyone is miliseconds within each other. The problem however is that the rest of the world hasn't realized this, kind of like it took a few years before people stopped worrying about Mhz or Megapixels.
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crestfallen posted:I'd have to disagree on that point. Having tons of javascript is only becoming more common, and most sites don't care about optimizing it too much. Not to mention the more "webapp" type sites out there. But those problems are not always because of javascript. Some is just plain problems with XUL and Gecko, which is a big reason why a year or two ago there were rumors that Mozilla had thought about dropping at least gecko in favor of Webkit but dropped the idea due to compatibility issues. If all the speed issues were due to javascript then there should be more buzz about Opera since it seems to be consistently as fast or faster than Chrome in some situations.
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Im_Special posted:So this has been bugging me for a while now and I just want to know if this is normal or did something not uninstall/install correctly and I have 2 running or whatever. Two instances is a biproduct of protected mode. It's kind of similar to how Chrome will show a instance for every tab. And flash would remain 32-bit unless you change to a 64-bit version of Firefox, or IE. In Firefox's case its still is developmental. Don't worry about either, it's all normal. edit: crap. Sorry for the repeat info!
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Uninstall, go into Program files and make sure the folder is empty, and the appdata/local folder is clean too (of course backup your bookmarks and such first) I haven't had a failure like you have before, but I have experienced weirdness over the past couple of weeks such as Firefox insisting to connect to some sites via https and then complaining about the invalid certificate among with other things and what I posted fixed it, for a while at least. I'm starting to wonder if there's some bug somewhere where your profile starts to deteriorate over time due to the daily updates. After rebuilding everything again every couple of weeks I dropped aurora and just went to Waterfox 15 and haven't had a problem since.
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I know it's a long shot, but here it goes. Is there any way to permanently block a plugin from re-enabling itself, or at least get Firefox to throw up a prompt when one is changed? Oracle in their wisdom always re-enable Java when you install updates and because I didn't remember to disable it again I got popped by an exploit last night. The only thing that saved me was MCE and Windows firewall throwing up an allow/deny prompt. If there's anyway to setup a permanent kill file similar to how you could block certain ActiveX controls in IE would be great.
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