[kwlug-disc] Firefox 57?

[CrankyOldBugger]

They're saying that it's much faster, but not all independent tests agree...


Firefox Vice President for Product Nick Nguyen. "We use 30 percent less
memory, and the reason for that is we can allocate the number of processes
Firefox uses on your computer based on the hardware that you have," he told
TechNewsWorld

as per
https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/11/18/0328256/is-firefox-57-faster-than-chrome?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed



On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 at 12:01 Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm giving it a go, switching off Chrome for a while, having been assured
> > that my previous Firefox performance issues are a thing of the past. I
> > haven't used Firefox in years because it would become unresponsive after
> > leaving it open for a day or two. I'm hoping it's better.
>
> Several extensions make this a non-issue.
>
> Auto Unload Tab frees memory and stops any Javascript CPU hogging after a
> set
> time (I use 2 hours).
>
> NoScript prevents JS and Flash from sites not in the whitelist from
> running. This
> takes care of all the CPU hogging adware, malware, mineware, ....etc.
>
> uBlock Origin also stops ads on sites that are on the whitelist.
>
> This is why the absence of the first two extensions is a show stopper
> for my move
> to 57.
>
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