updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

After 20 crashes in two days I say Adios Firefox and Hello Chrome

[bawz]

2 hours ago, Gary7 said:

After 20 crashes in two days I say Adios Firefox and Hello Chrome

Extension related more than likely, a bad Profile? could; be. were you on Nightly or stable Firefox ?

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Stable, I went back to the 32 bit. I was using the 64 Bit. I did not care for Chrome. Thanks.

[Boo Berry]

No crashes here with the 64-bit build. Try checking your extensions, try a new Firefox profile and try enabling/disabling hardware acceleration. Also make sure you're using the latest Flash and graphics drivers.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Also look in about:crashes for crash IDs, they'll point to what's causing the issue.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Since Firefox went to release 43.0.4 all is well. I have never seen so many release patches.

[bawz]

32 minutes ago, Gary7 said:

Since Firefox went to release 43.0.4 all is well. I have never seen so many release patches.

they have released a ..0.4 or a .1.1 many times before whether its an ESR or not

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Firefox 3.6 had 28 point releases, since the move to rapid release there usually isn't enough time to make the new patches before a whole new version has been released.

 

It's unfortunate they had to re-enable SHA-1 signing for TLS certs in this release, turns out there's a lot of crappy middleware/antivirus/ad blockers that do MITM attacks on TLS connections, and a whole bunch of them issue faked SHA-1 signed certs to browsers. Disable SHA-1 and those certs start getting rejected, stopping the user from ever loading TLS sites, and instead of the user blaming the actual cause of their problem, they'll just blame Firefox (Which is probably why MS is holding out for another year to disable SHA-1)

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

12 hours ago, The_Decryptor said:

Firefox 3.6 had 28 point releases, since the move to rapid release there usually isn't enough time to make the new patches before a whole new version has been released.

 

It's unfortunate they had to re-enable SHA-1 signing for TLS certs in this release, turns out there's a lot of crappy middleware/antivirus/ad blockers that do MITM attacks on TLS connections, and a whole bunch of them issue faked SHA-1 signed certs to browsers. Disable SHA-1 and those certs start getting rejected, stopping the user from ever loading TLS sites, and instead of the user blaming the actual cause of their problem, they'll just blame Firefox (Which is probably why MS is holding out for another year to disable SHA-1)

I know but 3,6 was way before they started the Aurora and Beta programs. This latest release seems to be working just fine.

[rsnn]

Mozilla to remove WebRT from Firefox

[bawz]

a Feature i never used, so good Riddance to it

[.stan]

Certainly looks like Mozilla's marketing dep pressured them into slimming it down so they can use the "Chrome is a memory hog"-mantra as a strategy! (jk)

[BooBerry]

https://twitter.com/bnjbvr/status/687544202167742465

[BooBerry]

Bug 1239520 - Enabled e10s on all configurations except release

[oldtimefighter]

On 1/7/2016 at 3:32 PM, Gary7 said:

Since Firefox went to release 43.0.4 all is well. I have never seen so many release patches.

 

On 1/8/2016 at 8:48 AM, Gary7 said:

I know but 3,6 was way before they started the Aurora and Beta programs. This latest release seems to be working just fine.

It doesn't really look that abnormal to me --> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/

 

Personally, I always prefer fixes. I don't think Firefox has ever crashed on me since stopped installing Flash three months ago.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Like I said, since 43.0.4 was released It no longer crashes. The default look of Firefox looks just like Chrome.. It seems Mozilla cannot be original..now. They used to be........

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

On 1/10/2016 at 6:37 AM, rsnn said:

Mozilla to remove WebRT from Firefox

Now if we could get MS to remove the apps from Win 10 everyone would be happy.

[Boo Berry]

23 hours ago, Gary7 said:

Now if we could get MS to remove the apps from Win 10 everyone would be happy.

That won't happen.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

8 minutes ago, Boo Berry said:

That won't happen.

I know but one can make it happen.

[bawz]

11 hours ago, Gary7 said:

I know but one can make it happen.

afaik, this is about Firefox, not windows10, take your problems with windows10 to another thread. 

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

On 1/19/2016 at 10:13 PM, Demz said:

afaik, this is about Firefox, not windows10, take your problems with windows10 to another thread. 

Will do sir!

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

i am now using Firefox 44.0 without any problems.

[+Red King Subscriber²]

Looks like Firefox 44 allows const and let just like IE, Edge, and Chrome. I can finally avoid var entirely in scripts.

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

Netflix working for anyone? I can't get it to work on a clean profile.

 

Do I need to install silverlight again?

[Boo Berry]

Works fine for me.