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done that, doent help im afraid, only other thing i can think of doing is Disabling Javascript, but given that im more of a Chrome user now due to the updated Flash Player ( Linux ) you dont get that in Firefox, your stuck with 11.2 

Look at about:crashes, it should usually point to the case of the crash.

nothing there, but it crashes the whole OS in the meantime when using firefox,  i know others that use Gnome-shell have the same issue, not just me., the only real fix to it is to use the Nvidia Blob driver. , it could well be video driver ( opensource one ) causing the problems, it has been reported , but when i use Chrome for a long time i cannot reproduce the issue. 

Awesome. When both e10s and MSE/EME is fully supported in the stable channel I might have to actually switch back to Firefox from Chrome! :D

i still will use Chrome, but will still use Firefox occasionally. ( within Linux )

 

i dont think e10's will be default till Fx38 atleast  

Last I saw, they were aiming for March and Firefox 37 but you very well could be right.

bit like Australis was supposed to come in at FF27 or FF28 but got enabled by default on Fx29 instead. an Mozilla dont always release things by default when they say they will. 

Weren't they supporting it for a few months now?

 

edit: News from Jun: https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-adds-support-for-60-fps-videos-and-fan-donations

 

They actually enabled support for now videos by default, previously I think it was field trail experiment.

One thing I have noticed about firefox since the early early builds was that :

When you have multiple heavy tabs open . And then try to close the active tab . There is a certain hangup while the tabs bar  adjusts itself to use the space freed up on the bar. I think this  is just a logical lag in the tab bar related to how UI handles it rather than Issue of the  Firefox Engine and Memory Release processes. 

I hope this could be fixed. I am a heavy user of firefox with 20-30 tabs open at any times LOL!

Any body faces this?

I hope this could be fixed. I am a heavy user of firefox with 20-30 tabs open at any times LOL!

The UI lag 'issues' has been known since the beginning. Hopefully e10s takes care of this (it does for me in my tests).

 

Well, still sucks that only Nightly is capable of 60fps youtube videos playback. I prefer to stick to stable releases for my main browser.

Only because Nightly has (better) support for HTML5 videos (e.g. MSE) and HTML5 is enabled by default on YouTube by Google for Nightly. Why HTML5? Because 60fps videos don't seem to work very well with Flash. ;)

There is no way to switch from html5 to flash on Nightly on YouTube eh? It crashes my PC and I always get a BSOD saying VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE or something(yes I have the latest drivers but my GPU is an Nvidia 7100GS fml). That's why I switched to the beta version. Still, I wish I could get back to Nightly. :(

You can actually. For example I can force Flash or HTML5 using the YouTube Center userscript (use the aggressive Flash option and the developer version of YouTube Center). Do note that if you're wanting to view 60fps videos on YouTube, it requires HTML5.

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If anyone wants 60fps YouTube video support in Nightly, do the following;

 

1) Make sure media.mediasource.enabled is set to true under about:config

 

2) Make sure media.mediasource.ignore_codecs is set to true about about:config - if this option doesn't exist, create it (right click > New > Boolean)

 

3) Test a 60fps YouTube video.

 

4) Profit?
 

NOTE: This will NOT work for stable Firefox builds.

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You can actually. For example I can force Flash or HTML5 using the YouTube Center userscript (use the aggressive Flash option and the developer version of YouTube Center). Do note that if you're wanting to view 60fps videos on YouTube, it requires HTML5.

I had totally forgotten the name of the addon. So, I installed both Nightly and the addon. But I can't open its settings.Addons > YouTube Center > Options ---> it shows "https://www.youtube.com/#ytcenter.settings.open" @ the url but it won't show any option, just the regular YouTube homepage.

 

Edit: I installed the dev version from github and it does the job.

I had totally forgotten the name of the addon. So, I installed both Nightly and the addon. But I can't open its settings.Addons > YouTube Center > Options ---> it shows "https://www.youtube.com/#ytcenter.settings.open" @ the url but it won't show any option, just the regular YouTube homepage.

 

You can try this addon, it doesn't have diverse options like Youtube Center, but it forces Flash pretty fine for me.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-video-player/

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I had totally forgotten the name of the addon. So, I installed both Nightly and the addon. But I can't open its settings.Addons > YouTube Center > Options ---> it shows "https://www.youtube.com/#ytcenter.settings.open" @ the url but it won't show any option, just the regular YouTube homepage.

try greasemonkey with the user-script version. the direct add-on can be a bit iffy sometimes I've noticed. (also try the dev version as well if you've only tried the stable)

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MSE support in Firefox is still fairly buggy, mainly due to them not having many devs working on it, that's changing though since MSE is a big feature and every other browser supports it.

One thing I have noticed about firefox since the early early builds was that :

When you have multiple heavy tabs open . And then try to close the active tab . There is a certain hangup while the tabs bar  adjusts itself to use the space freed up on the bar. I think this  is just a logical lag in the tab bar related to how UI handles it rather than Issue of the  Firefox Engine and Memory Release processes. 

I hope this could be fixed. I am a heavy user of firefox with 20-30 tabs open at any times LOL!

Any body faces this?

I'm not seeing that, are you sure it's not just the feature they added where it doesn't scroll the tab bar if you've got the mouse over it? (So that the close buttons don't constantly move when you try clicking them.)

Hey guys, one question. Let's say I got one New Tab Page opened and I want to open 3 sites from a folder. I right click the folder and select "Open all in Tabs", but when that happens I will have 3 tabs(the 3 sites I opened) AND the New Tab Page. In older versions of Firefox/Nightly, one of the 3 sites would be opened in the New Tab age, thus having 3 tabs opened and not 4. Any way I can fix it with a simple addon or inside the "about:config"?

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