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Firefox has a long way to go. * Australis * Electrolysis (http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-firefox/#when http://billmccloskey.wordpr

by yeukhon 13y ago

Firefox has a long way to go. * Australis * Electrolysis (http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-firefox/#when http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-f...) * Fx Accounts Speed wise, I really think Fx is pretty much on par with Chrome. There are areas where Fx is faster and Chrome is faster. In general, both are great. If you install a lot of addons/extensions, I will expect some performance hit. But that's an not excuse, yet I personally not a big fan of addons (well, addons are common in web development) anyway so that doesn't really concern me. Memory hike usually happens with plugins (flash, java applet) but normal browsing is fine. Plus I have 16GB to spare...

agapos 13y ago
Australis will be a large step backwards in many aspects, so I would not count it as a "should have". Read this preliminary FAQ, especially the answers: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353#p13350353 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353#p1335...
- yeukhon 13y ago
  I don't have much opinion about Australis. I was referring to performance regression, addon/extension compatibility. Mozilla has a lot of work to put into after enabling it in the release; I believe it's 29?
  - agapos 13y ago
    ATM the target release is 29, but it may be bumped to 30.
- pdkl95 13y ago
  Wow. That's going to take like... every single piece of my firefox UI except maybe the location bar, and either reset it to the current defaults I can't stand or simply drop it all on the floor. Given that it's looking like I may have to rewrite a good chunk of the UI in an extension to fix this, I'm wondering if I'll even be able to find the time to upgrade. Mozilla has been making some horrific decisions lately, and it seems they are going to be yet another business set to learn the hard way that surprising and pissing off users that you depend on for survival is a BAD idea, when they can leave for your competitor at any time. Just about the worst thing you can do when users don't like your Cool New Design is to say "you'll get over it" and repeat how the features they cared about were removed.
  - agapos 13y ago
    This is what you will want: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

by yeukhon 13y ago

agapos 13y ago

Australis will be a large step backwards in many aspects, so I would not count it as a "should have". Read this preliminary FAQ, especially the answers: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353#p13350353 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353#p1335...

yeukhon 13y ago
I don't have much opinion about Australis. I was referring to performance regression, addon/extension compatibility. Mozilla has a lot of work to put into after enabling it in the release; I believe it's 29?
- agapos 13y ago
  ATM the target release is 29, but it may be bumped to 30.
pdkl95 13y ago
Wow. That's going to take like... every single piece of my firefox UI except maybe the location bar, and either reset it to the current defaults I can't stand or simply drop it all on the floor. Given that it's looking like I may have to rewrite a good chunk of the UI in an extension to fix this, I'm wondering if I'll even be able to find the time to upgrade. Mozilla has been making some horrific decisions lately, and it seems they are going to be yet another business set to learn the hard way that surprising and pissing off users that you depend on for survival is a BAD idea, when they can leave for your competitor at any time. Just about the worst thing you can do when users don't like your Cool New Design is to say "you'll get over it" and repeat how the features they cared about were removed.
- agapos 13y ago
  This is what you will want: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...