Firefox version 57.0 is

[Omeletpants]

blazing fast.

It's the Willie Gault of browsers

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

blazing fast.

It's the Willie Gault of browsers

Or the Curtis Conway for younger noobs.

 

[Ares]

Did they fix the horrific memory leaking?

Nah?

 

[Crystallas]

Memory leaking seems to be a huge problem with all of the browsers. IDK if Mozilla fixed it, but would be nice if someone did. I'm using a beta build of Waterfox, it's good and uses the same rendering improvements just without a number of privacy concerns and EME. But still not better overall than palemoon IMO. But that all depends on the kind of sites people use and the kind of power people want over their web experience. If you don't care, just run Vivaldi IMO.

 

[Tater]

Just switched to Firefox ESR 52.5.0
A certain plug-in wouldn't work with the regular version. hen did 57 come out?

 

[SERE Bear]

Is memory leaking an issue when using a VPN ?

 

[Omeletpants]

Just switched to Firefox ESR 52.5.0
A certain plug-in wouldn't work with the regular version. hen did 57 come out?

2 days ago

 

[Crystallas]

Is memory leaking an issue when using a VPN ?

The sites themselves render in the browser and consume whatever resources. Unless you consider something like a TOR browser as a VPN, which it can be seen as such but really is a category of its own, then it's still on the browser itself.

A VPN is just a middle man in the network that resolves your activity to the VPNs IP and logs(or lack of pending their policy) instead of your local device. The service provider can have additional features, but those are on their own. Like certain firewall rules or geolocation landing for geolocation targeted services.

 

[Tater]

2 days ago

Hmmm, that's just when I gave up on the previous version and switched to the ESR. It's working good now, not sure if I want to upgrade yet. The ESR plug-in fix is supposed to end with the new year.

 

[Crystallas]

Unless you have a slow computer and need to eek out all the performance you can, you aren't going to miss much by waiting.

 

[Tater]

Unless you have a slow computer and need to eek out all the performance you can, you aren't going to miss much by waiting.

Thanks, the bold applies here.

Edit: Also, there's a program I want to use that requires a plug-in. It stopped working since the Firefox update several months ago. It's nice to have it back for now at least.

 

[Ares]

Memory leaking seems to be a huge problem with all of the browsers. IDK if Mozilla fixed it, but would be nice if someone did. I'm using a beta build of Waterfox, it's good and uses the same rendering improvements just without a number of privacy concerns and EME. But still not better overall than palemoon IMO. But that all depends on the kind of sites people use and the kind of power people want over their web experience. If you don't care, just run Vivaldi IMO.

True.... Chrome leaks like a mofo too.

This was a joke 10 years ago when I was starting college.... not sure why they continue to ignore memory leaks.

If there was 1 thing Firefox could do that would make me want to use it over other browsers, it would be if it wasn't a memory leaking POS.

I know not all users notice it, but I think enough do for it to be worthwhile for browser devs to work on it, no?

 

[Scoot26]

True.... Chrome leaks like a mofo too.

This was a joke 10 years ago when I was starting college.... not sure why they continue to ignore memory leaks.

If there was 1 thing Firefox could do that would make me want to use it over other browsers, it would be if it wasn't a memory leaking POS.

I know not all users notice it, but I think enough do for it to be worthwhile for browser devs to work on it, no?

For the last year, chrome leaks have been worse on my computer than Firefox. I stopped using Chrome.

 

[Crystallas]

I don't use chrome because of privacy concerns. Plus it has an infinite resource allocation and the opt-out features actually don't honor any request. Even Chromium is loaded with these blobs, so I prefer to use other blink-engine browsers that do honor system policies.

Is it a fast browser, or *was* (this goes back and fourth), yes. I still use an isolated Chrome instance for certain sites just to keep browsing profiles squared. But it has never been so much faster to me, that I would willingly allow so much phoning home as a main use case.

Mozilla is no saint themselves. They act like they are, but also have gone in with other major services to add some of their own non-neutral DRM development.


Good news though, in 2017, neither are the the top 2 browsers, or top 3, if you're one of those quacks that think Edge is any good (or totally delusional and think Safari is more than a default browser for lazy people). Many projects maintain clean and fast code, take the best of both worlds and give the user the experience they seek. For a tool a person uses so often, not a bad idea to hone in on that right browser.