updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[ViperAFK]

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.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

MP3 seeking works fine for me in Firefox, if it's not working on Jolidrive it's because Jolidrive is doing something strange.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Joe Drew left Mozilla, leaving several important bugs he was working unassigned... Hell..

[bawz]

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.

[Konstantine]

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"?

[bawz]

And in which way is Mozilla making the browser "less customizable"?

i take it you have never used the UX Build of Mozilla Firefox?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

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?

 

[Konstantine]

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. :(

[Konstantine]

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!

[+Zlip792 MVC]

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.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

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/

[+Zlip792 MVC]

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

[bawz]

they need to speedup firefox in Linux. its slow as a Dog. Video is crap. a bit choppy ( Version 23 ) 

[+Zlip792 MVC]

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.

[bawz]

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? 

[+Zlip792 MVC]

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..

[bawz]

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 ) 

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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.

[bawz]

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? 

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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)

[bawz]

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. 

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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)

[cetla]

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?

 

[Christophorus_Hatchenson]

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?

 

Sexy. Makes me want to buy Windows tablet. Is it installed separately, or included in standart Firefox installer? Can I launch desktop app by clicking tile?