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March 27, 2015

Looking forward for Servo engine full potential.

it'll be interesting when Serve/Firefox comes out

1,669 · March 28, 2015

I am trying to get Servo working but unfortunately I've had problems cloning the necessary github repos because of the stupid DDoS attack.

March 29, 2015

Firefox Gecko vs Servo engines on Ubuntu 15.04

2,724 · March 31, 2015

Nightly has been marked version 40 now and Firefox 37 Stable is out now.

Firefox 38 is aimed for 64-bit release on Windows.

April 1, 2015

Nightly has been marked version 40 now and Firefox 37 Stable is out now.

Firefox 38 is aimed for 64-bit release on Windows.

37 an 38 is/was a 5 week release cycle also, wonder if Google will do the same

6,202 · April 1, 2015

I wouldn't object to a shorter cycle honestly.

20,536 · April 1, 2015

...

Firefox 38 is aimed for 64-bit release on Windows.

I don't think so, there's still a few issues (With the JS engine and EME) which they don't want to launch with, and their current plans only talk about 64bit releases of the developer edition (And not planning for a general release until 41/42)

April 1, 2015

IMO Mozilla need an official 64bit version. if they dont release one, they'll lose out to Google

an as far as EME goes, will it ever be suported?

Might as well as Kill off Firefox/Gecko now

20,536 · April 1, 2015

32/64 doesn't matter for 99% of people, and EME is supported in 38, that's one of the reasons 38 won't have an official 64bit release (Since Adobe don't support 64bit for it currently)

April 1, 2015

AFAIK, Mozilla dont care for Adobe ever since Moz came out with shumway. but even in 64bit Linux/Firefox installs there really is no native 64bit only flash, its still half an half im pretty sure.

4,147 · April 1, 2015

32/64 doesn't matter for 99% of people, and EME is supported in 38, that's one of the reasons 38 won't have an official 64bit release (Since Adobe don't support 64bit for it currently)

as someone using firefox 38 beta 1 x64 i can say there is a significant different between 64bit and 32bit firefox. I have 6gb ram and i'm running win 8.1 x64. Firefox is able to use about 3-3.3gb ram before it freezes up, firefox 64bit can manage 4gb ram before that happens. Firefox 38 x64 is quite a bit faster at switching between tabs and scrolling long pages. It has significantly improved firefox for me. Hardly anyone even knows what EME is so that is much less important.

20,536 · April 1, 2015

It sounds like you have an issue on your system if even 64bit Firefox can only use 4GB of RAM, it should be able to use something like 16 TB of RAM on a 64bit system. Perfomance wise the 64bit build of Firefox is probably the same as the 32bit build, or slightly slower on average. The 64bit version of Chrome was (on average) slower than the 32bit one, performance in desktop apps like these isn't improved with moving to 64bit, quite often it's hurt (Because the code takes up more size, pointers are longer, more data gets moved around, etc. Unless the workload is specifically helped by a 64bit execution environment, it'll most likely be hurt).

And more people would know (Or want to know) about EME than what the differences are between 32/64, anybody watching Netflix needs EME for example.

AFAIK, Mozilla dont care for Adobe ever since Moz came out with shumway. but even in 64bit Linux/Firefox installs there really is no native 64bit only flash, its still half an half im pretty sure.

Who do you think is providing the DRM module for Firefox?

6,202 · April 2, 2015

Does EME in Nightly support Netflix yet or not? I haven't actually tried it.

April 2, 2015

It sounds like you have an issue on your system if even 64bit Firefox can only use 4GB of RAM, it should be able to use something like 16 TB of RAM on a 64bit system. Perfomance wise the 64bit build of Firefox is probably the same as the 32bit build, or slightly slower on average. The 64bit version of Chrome was (on average) slower than the 32bit one, performance in desktop apps like these isn't improved with moving to 64bit, quite often it's hurt (Because the code takes up more size, pointers are longer, more data gets moved around, etc. Unless the workload is specifically helped by a 64bit execution environment, it'll most likely be hurt).

And more people would know (Or want to know) about EME than what the differences are between 32/64, anybody watching Netflix needs EME for example.

Who do you think is providing the DRM module for Firefox?

no idea, but can you provide a source of who?

6,202 · April 2, 2015

no idea, but can you provide a source of who?

Well...

Primetime Content Decryption Module provided by Adobe Systems

20,536 · April 2, 2015

Boo Berry beat me to it.

Does EME in Nightly support Netflix yet or not? I haven't actually tried it.

Doubt it actually :laugh: , it's up to Netflix to support (Did I mention that the CDMs are a horrible, unspecified, proprietary mess, and we can thank Microsoft/Google for that), and for Firefox to not be buggy.

4,678 · April 3, 2015

Anyone experience the following,

1. FF sometimes stops rendering - resizing browser window fixes the issue

2. FF sometimes renders images black / half black - disabling half-assed HWA fixed the issue.

April 3, 2015

its probably this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067470

its been annoying me for over a month now.

April 6, 2015

http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/31kk9x/ublock_creator_requests_old_project_to_be_renamed/

4,977 · April 6, 2015

Anyone get this issue with the menu?

I click the menu button, it renders it, but then it quickly disappears. When I click again, I don't get the full menu, just this:

1,175 · April 6, 2015

Not at this moment .

1,669 · April 6, 2015

Anyone get this issue with the menu?

I click the menu button, it renders it, but then it quickly disappears. When I click again, I don't get the full menu, just this:

Yeah, I got that too, but it randomly stopped.

4,678 · April 6, 2015

http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/31kk9x/ublock_creator_requests_old_project_to_be_renamed/

That extension been dead since someone mentioned it.

2,943 · April 6, 2015

Firefox beta channel finally has a 64bit build starting with v38.

April 6, 2015

Firefox beta channel finally has a 64bit build starting with v38.

AFAIK , there wont be any real official 64bit releases to the release channel till firefox40 or 41 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/win64

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