Firefox Fights Back - Firefox 57

Edwin · 06 Oct 2017

Josey Wales said:

What do you mean? Oh you mean like from general to search and so on? I can do that Edwin. Try to clear your cache.

Nope! Can't do it on Nightly or Quantum!
Just stays on 'General'!

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Edwin · 06 Oct 2017

Refreshed!
All good!

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Sbrideau · 07 Oct 2017

I used to use Firefox with just 2 add-ons (which is what they were called at the time). Ever since Firefox 3 it seems every version I tried had issues, especially with memory leaks (sometimes I'd just close Firefox and open it again to release 3GB of RAM).

I'm currently using both Opera and Chrome but I don't like the Chrome UI, I just use it to be able to use my ChromeCast from my computer. I've been trying Vivaldi lately and it looks much more promising than the current offering of browsers.

Will try this new version of Firefox though it looks like it's something.

CountMike · 07 Oct 2017

Sbrideau said:

I used to use Firefox with just 2 add-ons (which is what they were called at the time). Ever since Firefox 3 it seems every version I tried had issues, especially with memory leaks (sometimes I'd just close Firefox and open it again to release 3GB of RAM).

I'm currently using both Opera and Chrome but I don't like the Chrome UI, I just use it to be able to use my ChromeCast from my computer. I've been trying Vivaldi lately and it looks much more promising than the current offering of browsers.

Will try this new version of Firefox though it looks like it's something.

You are probably talking about your laptop because no way that desktop of yours would be clogged up by any number of browsers, tabs opened unless something is badly wrong.

dalchina · 07 Oct 2017

Has anyone noticed this?

- seemed to appear on updating to v56, when some seemed to stop working. reverting to v55, I still see the Legacy designation, which I didn't think I'd seen before.

CountMike · 07 Oct 2017

Practically all my add-ons are labeled as Legacy. in v56-56.01.

Sbrideau · 07 Oct 2017

CountMike said:

You are probably talking about your laptop because no way that desktop of yours would be clogged up by any number of browsers, tabs opened unless something is badly wrong.

I had stopped using Firefox before my current desktop build so yes, but with the news I'm seeing here, it looks like they're making efforts to make it better and stable again so I will be trying Firefox again.

CountMike · 07 Oct 2017

Sbrideau said:

I had stopped using Firefox before my current desktop build so yes, but with the news I'm seeing here, it looks like they're making efforts to make it better and stable again so I will be trying Firefox again.

v56.01 is running just fine on my old laptop with single core and 3GB of ram, win XP.

reddice · 07 Oct 2017

Chrome renders fonts fuzzy with no real fix that works. Firefox they are sharp which is the main reason why I always stuck with Firefox. I only use Chrome for web players as Firefox does not perform as good.

larc919 · 07 Oct 2017

dalchina said:

Has anyone noticed this?

- seemed to appear on updating to v56, when some seemed to stop working. reverting to v55, I still see the Legacy designation, which I didn't think I'd seen before.

I'm running Nightly 58.0a1 and using Ghostery to block ads. From regular Firefox to Nightly, to Firefox beta and then back to Nightly, it has worked with no problems.