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Is anyone having problems with Firefox 29 being "laggy". The whole browser feels like it's struggling to maintain itself. Infact I just installed a theme(Mx 2.1) and I swear that's made it feel alot snappier.

I have noticed it feels a lot snappier with a different theme (I've tried mx4 and simple white and they both do)

Good job I disabled auto update months ago.

 

27.0.1 if anyone wants to revert: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/27.0.1/win32/en-GB/Firefox%20Setup%2027.0.1.exe

I'm still on ff26 and seeing virtually no different in term of speed improvement or better memory management with ff29. It's like Mozilla stopped caring about its core product altogether. I know they are working on electrolysis an all, but they've been at it since 2009! What the crap are they doing in Mountain View?

Is anyone having problems with Firefox 29 being "laggy". The whole browser feels like it's struggling to maintain itself.

Seems perky to me.. no idea how it would perform on a lower end/integrated GPU though if that applies to you. I did start with a new profile though, I do that every few major versions to lose some of the dead weight that builds up in the profile. That aside, benchmarks a bit faster than 27 and 28 too.. couple of tweaks and I'm liking it better than the previous version.

 

Good job I disabled auto update months ago.

Your perogotive of course but browser vulnerabilities isn't something I'd personally roll the dice with. 27 doesn't get any further security patches, only the current (29), the ESR build (which is still at 24) or betas.

Firefox29 does have its problems, they should have waited till firefox 30 to release the New Australis 

 

1 of my pet peeves with this Australis > bookmarks . is if you bookmark a new website it goes Directly to the " unsorted  bookmarks " but if i want it elsewhere i have to bookmark it again an then replace it where i want it. that is a show stopper for me. i bet lots will go to Chrome now

is if you bookmark a new website it goes Directly to the " unsorted  bookmarks " but if i want it elsewhere i have to bookmark it again an then replace it where i want it. that is a show stopper for me. i bet lots will go to Chrome now

 

 

I'm pretty sure this is exactly how it worked before australis...

 

edit: yeah, I just downloaded a pre-australis version of firefox, the old bookmark star worked the exact same way as it does now, one click puts it into unsorted, second click brings up dialogue to specify folder...

This is exactly how it worked before australis...

no it was not the same. if i bookmarked a website it popped up a small box asking me where i wanted to put it. if i  wanted itt somewhere else i had to scroll to the correct bookmark folder to drop the new bookmark in the folder where i wanted it. , now it automatically puts it in " unsorted bookmarks " whethere i want it there or not. 

Are you bookmarking by pressing Ctrl+D or clicking the star? I get the small popup for the former but not the latter.

pressing the star

 

ok fixed, but still, i should get the small box popup whether i press the Star button or not. 

no it was not the same. if i bookmarked a website it popped up a small box asking me where i wanted to put it. if i  wanted itt somewhere else i had to scroll to the correct bookmark folder to drop the new bookmark in the folder where i wanted it. , now it automatically puts it in " unsorted bookmarks " whethere i want it there or not. 

Pre australis versions do this too... this is how its worked for a long time when clicking the bookmark star.

 

I just downloaded pale moon (which is still based on fx 24 ESR) and the behavior is the same as with fx29 when clicking the bookmark star, 1 click sends to unsorted with no dialogue, another brings up dialogue....

 

If you want to immediately bring up the dialogue you can always use ctrl + d.

Everything about Australis is bad, even when it's completely unchanged from pre-Australis, it's now bad. :laugh:
 

Good job I disabled auto update months ago.
 
27.0.1 if anyone wants to revert: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/27.0.1/win32/en-GB/Firefox%20Setup%2027.0.1.exe


So you'd rather deal with security flaws than a slightly different theme? (Because for all the angry words about how things have changed, all that's really different is the location of some buttons)

Edit: Also, want to know where the original design for the curved tabs came from?

Pre australis versions do this too... this is how its worked for a long time when clicking the bookmark star.

 

I just downloaded pale moon (which is still based on fx 24 ESR) and the behavior is the same as with fx29 when clicking the bookmark star, 1 click sends to unsorted with no dialogue, another brings up dialogue....

 

If you want to immediately bring up the dialogue you can always use ctrl + d.

yeah i'll have to use shortcut method now :(  unless i enable the Menu Bar perm again

I've recently noticed another difference between bookmarking with the star button and the keyboard shortcut/context menu: The default folder for the former is Unsorted Bookmarks and the for the latter it's the Bookmark Menu.

 

Is there any way to have all methods use the same folder? AFAIK this was not the default behavior in previous versions and it's kinda annoying.

Anyone else noticing way faster startup times since upgrading to 29? Mine's gone from ~2 seconds to ~0.5-0.8 seconds (ssd)

 

 

yeah i have noticed it be faster

 

 

If you use Adblocker 2.6 (just came out a couple of days ago) you'll notice improvements from 1 to 5 seconds on opening Firefox 29.

That is because now ABP delays its initialization after the browser startup.So basically FF starts without loading the addon during the startup,and it loads it after the startup.

Because of this my homepage gets loaded with ads during the startup,but its not a big deal.

That is because now ABP delays its initialization after the browser startup.So basically FF starts without loading the addon during the startup,and it loads it after the startup.

Because of this my homepage gets loaded with ads during the startup,but its not a big deal.

Why doesn't Mozilla just lazily load extensions to get this win ?

In about:healthreport you can check the seconds, Firefox starts faster than Chrome for me now

Noticed that too, although didn't know about the spiffy graph till now.  Rather happy with that considering the number of addons I have it loading. 

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