[kwlug-disc] Firefox 57?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I was on the ESR release for some time.

It is good for stability and no surprises ...

But the annoying thing is that the releases are in .tar.bz2 format,
and have to be installed manually when security releases come out.

Time consuming and error prone, because one forgets how to do it for
months, then a security release comes out and I have to dig the script
that does it (which is not totally automated since the download file
name changes because it has the version in it).

I wish there was a .deb that can be installed using gdebi, but I don't
know of one that exists.


Back to 57.

I am considering backing up my Firefix profile, then upgrading to 57
and see how it works. If things go haywire, I can revert the profile
back. But will wait a bit more to see if the extensions in question
get released.

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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