cetla Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 People keep making this weird claim about firefox's "renderer being bad" but with little to back it up. I never have any problems with firefox's rendering of pages, nor have I had any stability issues with it... I just created a jolidrive account and browsed around in it for quite a while, I can't get it to crash at all here. I also use webapps such as google docs and skydrive pretty frequently, never have any issues on my machines. If you are getting crashes you should probably report a bug. Weird claim? I'm just reporting what works and doesn't with Firefox on my end. My claim of Firefox doesn't handle web apps is pretty grounded. Since you just signed up for Jolidrive, go ahead and test its music player. There's a bug with the seeker and volume slider in Firefox. You can't manipulate them. Works fine in Chrome and IE10. I also check the crashdump I had early on Jolidrive, apparently Firefox is cocking up with mp3 playback. Most music/radio sites have Flash fallback for handling mp3s (specifically for Firefox) but Jolidrive doesn't so it crashed for god knows what reason... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Weird claim? I'm just reporting what works and doesn't with Firefox on my end. My claim of Firefox doesn't handle web apps is pretty grounded. Since you just signed up for Jolidrive, go ahead and test its music player. There's a bug with the seeker and volume slider in Firefox. You can't manipulate them. Works fine in Chrome and IE10. I also check the crashdump I had early on Jolidrive, apparently Firefox is cocking up with mp3 playback. Most music/radio sites have Flash fallback for handling mp3s (specifically for Firefox) but Jolidrive doesn't so it crashed for god knows what reason... I can reproduce the mp3 seeking issue, but no crashes here. mp3 seeking not working on jolidrive hardly means "firefox can't handle web apps". I'm done with this thread because the amount of hyperbole is givine me a headache. max22 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 2, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 2, 2013 MP3 seeking works fine for me in Firefox, if it's not working on Jolidrive it's because Jolidrive is doing something strange. max22 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted August 4, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 4, 2013 Joe Drew left Mozilla, leaving several important bugs he was working unassigned... Hell.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Joe Drew left Mozilla, leaving several important bugs he was working unassigned... Hell.. an he prolly wont be the last either, with Mozilla making the browser " less Customizable " they dont need as many programers as they used to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konstantine Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 an he prolly wont be the last either, with Mozilla making the browser " less Customizable " they dont need as many programers as they used to have. And in which way is Mozilla making the browser "less customizable"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 And in which way is Mozilla making the browser "less customizable"? i take it you have never used the UX Build of Mozilla Firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 5, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 5, 2013 an he prolly wont be the last either, with Mozilla making the browser " less Customizable " they dont need as many programers as they used to have. That makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted August 5, 2013 Subscriber¹ Share Posted August 5, 2013 an he prolly wont be the last either, with Mozilla making the browser " less Customizable " they dont need as many programers as they used to have. i take it you have never used the UX Build of Mozilla Firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konstantine Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 i take it you have never used the UX Build of Mozilla Firefox? I'm using it right now. I commented using the UX build. My horse is a motorbike, your argument is invalid. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konstantine Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 I cannot access Google+ with latest UX build. o_O; It says "Your Browser is no longer supported." Wtf? Any way to fix it? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted August 11, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 11, 2013 Mozilla is shifting to JSON from SQLite for many stuff like today few addons related backend change, it will help Firefox in reducing main thread jank, startup hit and makes tab bar snappy. max22 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted August 13, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 13, 2013 Blog post related to Async and snappy work done: http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/async-and-responsive-issue-5/ JSON backend blogpost: http://www.controlledflight.ca/2013/08/12/add-on-manager-json-databases-landed/ pkmugg, Matrixik and max22 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted August 14, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 14, 2013 From mozilla-inbound, which will later on merge with mozilla-central: These are landed update, I can't say if one of them get backout later, as time of it, they sticked. Ion Monkey - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903394 Cleanup patch - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887116 HTML Parser update - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897143 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897153 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900724 WebRTC support on BSD based OS - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807492 WebGL ANGLE_instanced_arrays support - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900767 Cycle Collection related MemShrink - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901290 DOM related fixup - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903311 max22 and Matrixik 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 they need to speedup firefox in Linux. its slow as a Dog. Video is crap. a bit choppy ( Version 23 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted August 14, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 14, 2013 they need to speedup firefox in Linux. its slow as a Dog. Video is crap. a bit choppy ( Version 23 ) Nightly 26 should be a choice to test that whether such issues have been resolved in future release or not. Also if I remember correctly, they are working on making Firefox faster on Linux as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Nightly 26 should be a choice to test that whether such issues have been resolved in future release or not. Also if I remember correctly, they are working on making Firefox faster on Linux as well. im assuming 26 wont be officially released till late in the year? tho didnt they say 25 would be released in october? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted August 14, 2013 MVC Share Posted August 14, 2013 im assuming 26 wont be officially released till late in the year? tho didnt they say 25 would be released in october? Umm.. yeah!! But try to see where issues lies.. Some people say that Beta Flash also fixed several issues.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Umm.. yeah!! But try to see where issues lies.. Some people say that Beta Flash also fixed several issues.. im pretty sure the problem was in Pepper Flash, cause when i played Video in Firefox within Linux i never got Hissing/Crackling noises , an as i disabled pepper flash in Chrome ( linux Version ) an im using 11.2 now i no longer get those noises . but overall Firefox is slow inb linux. im not the only one to say that. there's a thread on the fedoraforums from ( glennzo ) who says the same thing. an i have disabled IPv6 within the browser an elsewhere ( systemd ) my gripe about firefox currently its slow at loading webpages. compared to Chrome its fast ( i no longer use Windows, so Linux only ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 14, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 14, 2013 Disabling IPv6 won't make it faster, all it'll do is prevent you from loading IPv6 websites. Edit: If you don't have a public IPv6 address it won't even attempt to do IPv6, it literally has no affect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Disabling IPv6 won't make it faster, all it'll do is prevent you from loading IPv6 websites. Edit: If you don't have a public IPv6 address it won't even attempt to do IPv6, it literally has no affect. i disagree with you, Disabling ipv6 has an effect on a Browsers Performance if you cant use ipv6 at all. so why have it enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 14, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 14, 2013 Nope, no effect at all, zero, none. If you don't have a public IPv6 address, the browser won't even bother trying to use IPv6, as in it won't even probe for an IPv6 address. Disabling it probably slows it down if anything (as it has to take a separate code path where it explicitly tells the OS not to use IPv6) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawz Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Nope, no effect at all, zero, none. If you don't have a public IPv6 address, the browser won't even bother trying to use IPv6, as in it won't even probe for an IPv6 address. Disabling it probably slows it down if anything (as it has to take a separate code path where it explicitly tells the OS not to use IPv6) but if you Disable ipv6 from within systemd it tells the OS there is no ipv6 support. same within windows. you disable ipv6 within windows an the browser it will not try an use that feature. i wouldnt think there'd be a lot of sites that currently support ipv6 anyway as its still in its testing phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 14, 2013 Veteran Share Posted August 14, 2013 The fact that you aren't running IPv6 on your network is enough to tell the OS you aren't using IPv6, it's not in testing phase either (Google have been running IPv6 for years, made it public last year for everybody) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetla Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Firefox Metro is scheduled to role out when Firefox 26 is released. Look decent so far. I wonder how the add-ons system will carry over if it will at all? +Zlip792 and max22 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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