[kwlug-disc] Firefox 57?

[Ron Singh]

I moved to Firefix ESR about 6-7 months ago, both in W7/W10 and
Linux(Mint(despite the fact that Mint does not have it in their repo)),
just to be able to use my fav add-ons. I have not experienced any
shortcomings of FF ESR. All my "legacy" add-ons run well.

That said, I do have a playtime Thinkpad X220 i7 laptop with 8G running
Mint Cinnamon 18.2 and when I reload some 72 tabs on the new FF57, it *is*
some 30% faster on finishing all them reloads. Tabs snap into view a wee
faster, advert content load visibly faster too when I have Ublock Origin
turned off.

Since NoScript 5.x is supported till June 2018, I think I will stick with
FF ESR. I am on FF ESR 52.4, even though 52.5 just popped into view a
couple of days ago. I will give it another 6 weeks to see how FF ESR 52.5
is received before upgrading.

I would think upgrading from FF 56 to FF 57 in newer hardware will show
very little "felt" performance increase, but on my older(6-7 yo) laptop,
FF57 was visibly faster. For daily driving, I am sticking with FF ESR and
will only bust a move to FF 57 after a point release and when NoScript is
up to speed.. My 2 cents.



Thanks,

Ron Singh
"in transit, via mobile comm device"

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:21 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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