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Firefox Browser & Update Discussion
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According to Wikipedia, V49 due out sometime today.
Originally Posted by aurichie:
“I'm surprised anyone still uses Firefox. It's shocking how bad and bloated it now is.
Safari all the way for me these days.”
“I'm surprised anyone still uses Firefox. It's shocking how bad and bloated it now is.
Safari all the way for me these days.”
FF is a real disk thrasher with certain websites, but then I've got an old pc which will only handle up to FF12 for my old Windows OS. But I know it's not a lack of RAM issue.. Even now I read in Mozilla site forums that some users with modern PCs are still having disk thrashing problems with more recent versions. But I finally found a hack to stop FF making excessive use of my hard drive for memory swapping and that's cut thrashing down noticeably.
https://icedragon.comodo.com
this is the way to go
this is the way to go
Originally Posted by FrankBT:
“FF is a real disk thrasher with certain websites, but then I've got an old pc which will only handle up to FF12 for my old Windows OS. But I know it's not a lack of RAM issue.. Even now I read in Mozilla site forums that some users with modern PCs are still having disk thrashing problems with more recent versions. But I finally found a hack to stop FF making excessive use of my hard drive for memory swapping and that's cut thrashing down noticeably.”
“FF is a real disk thrasher with certain websites, but then I've got an old pc which will only handle up to FF12 for my old Windows OS. But I know it's not a lack of RAM issue.. Even now I read in Mozilla site forums that some users with modern PCs are still having disk thrashing problems with more recent versions. But I finally found a hack to stop FF making excessive use of my hard drive for memory swapping and that's cut thrashing down noticeably.”
I notice no such problems. However, I've found that Firefox on Windows 7 onwards has been much more stable. Under Windows XP, it was more unsable, though I don't know whether that was Firefox versions at the time or Windows XP. Maybe a combination.
For ages I was plagued with FF opening twice. One click - opens in task manager only, 2nd click opens to desktop. Or maybe I'd go to use CCleaner and up pops a message 'need to close FF' - was still open in the background. Google + Mozilla forums never came up with the answer. A real PITA.
The other day I realised it didn't happen any more - 1 click, 1 FF. When did this amazing fix take place ? This should've been headline news in DS, El Reg, News at Ten, PM's questions etc.
The other day I realised it didn't happen any more - 1 click, 1 FF. When did this amazing fix take place ? This should've been headline news in DS, El Reg, News at Ten, PM's questions etc.
Does anyone know what is happening here?
FireFox keeps downloading this file 903-win-x64.zip without me doing anything.
This page is the only info I can find in relation to the file.
https://bug635044.bugzilla.mozilla.o...cgi?id=1287925
FireFox keeps downloading this file 903-win-x64.zip without me doing anything.
This page is the only info I can find in relation to the file.
https://bug635044.bugzilla.mozilla.o...cgi?id=1287925
Originally Posted by Mr Dos:
“For ages I was plagued with FF opening twice. One click - opens in task manager only, 2nd click opens to desktop. Or maybe I'd go to use CCleaner and up pops a message 'need to close FF' - was still open in the background. Google + Mozilla forums never came up with the answer. A real PITA.
The other day I realised it didn't happen any more - 1 click, 1 FF. When did this amazing fix take place ? This should've been headline news in DS, El Reg, News at Ten, PM's questions etc.”
“For ages I was plagued with FF opening twice. One click - opens in task manager only, 2nd click opens to desktop. Or maybe I'd go to use CCleaner and up pops a message 'need to close FF' - was still open in the background. Google + Mozilla forums never came up with the answer. A real PITA.
The other day I realised it didn't happen any more - 1 click, 1 FF. When did this amazing fix take place ? This should've been headline news in DS, El Reg, News at Ten, PM's questions etc.”
Its got to be at least 6 months, maybe a year.
v49.0.1 just came through.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Just a startup crash fix.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Just a startup crash fix.
I have an issue on my office computer using Windows 10. When I'm using Firefox for Google maps or a vehicle tracking website, the page goes black and so do all the other tabs I may have open.
Really annoying as I have to close Firefox and relaunch and log in again to the pages I was on.
It is the latest version and I have the anniversary update for windows too.
Any ideas please?
Really annoying as I have to close Firefox and relaunch and log in again to the pages I was on.
It is the latest version and I have the anniversary update for windows too.
Any ideas please?
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“Firefox might be killing your SSD, fix it with one simple step
Modern web browsers offer amazing functionality, speed, and performance. One of the best features without question is the session recovery. This allows us to continue where we left of as if we never closed the browser, even in case of computer crashing. There is a definite drawback though.
Serve the Home's Sergei Bobik has noticed that especially Firefox likes to write excessive amounts of data on your drive in case recovery is needed. It can potentially amount to tens of gigabytes a day.
Also it not only eats your storage but slowly kills your SSD, if that is what you use. SSD's only allow certain amount of writes before they expire. Thus, having programs constantly writing on them is not good for their lifespan.
This seems to happen with Firefox even though it is not used. Bobik noticed that within 45 minutes of having Firefox open it had written over gigabyte of data to an SSD. At this pace tens of gigabytes per day can be accumulated. In his recent calculations the same problem seems to be in Chrome as well and it could backup restoration data more than 24 GB/day.
There's an easy fix to improve your SDD's lifespan and reduce storage used by Firefox. You can change the frequency of the data writeup, by default it is done every 15 seconds. Switch the browser.sessionstore.interval parameter by typing about:config in your Firefox address bar. Notice that the time is in milliseconds (15 000 = 15 seconds, 300 000 = 5 minutes).”
“Firefox might be killing your SSD, fix it with one simple step
Modern web browsers offer amazing functionality, speed, and performance. One of the best features without question is the session recovery. This allows us to continue where we left of as if we never closed the browser, even in case of computer crashing. There is a definite drawback though.
Serve the Home's Sergei Bobik has noticed that especially Firefox likes to write excessive amounts of data on your drive in case recovery is needed. It can potentially amount to tens of gigabytes a day.
Also it not only eats your storage but slowly kills your SSD, if that is what you use. SSD's only allow certain amount of writes before they expire. Thus, having programs constantly writing on them is not good for their lifespan.
This seems to happen with Firefox even though it is not used. Bobik noticed that within 45 minutes of having Firefox open it had written over gigabyte of data to an SSD. At this pace tens of gigabytes per day can be accumulated. In his recent calculations the same problem seems to be in Chrome as well and it could backup restoration data more than 24 GB/day.
There's an easy fix to improve your SDD's lifespan and reduce storage used by Firefox. You can change the frequency of the data writeup, by default it is done every 15 seconds. Switch the browser.sessionstore.interval parameter by typing about:config in your Firefox address bar. Notice that the time is in milliseconds (15 000 = 15 seconds, 300 000 = 5 minutes).”
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/articl...ne-simple-step
Good tip Grouty for those with SSD's, I don't have one but had a look in about:config and yes set at 15 seconds. What I don't really understand is what they are storing on the hard drive and why so much data ..... I understand what (sort of) but why so often and so much.
When does it write this data to the hard drive, when its idle ?
When does it write this data to the hard drive, when its idle ?
Probably writes all the time while in use, as main benefit will be for all those who have umpteen tabs open and it crashes id have thought, so they don't lose everything, as it all gets restored when it restarts/is restarted.
Ive just whacked a load of 9s in to stop it writing all time, as im using an SSD, only have the 1 tab open, so no need for it to be doing it
Ive just whacked a load of 9s in to stop it writing all time, as im using an SSD, only have the 1 tab open, so no need for it to be doing it
For info, I have had a couple of issues with Firefox which I have solved, though I don't know how long standing they were.
1. Videos were not playing on BBC News or iPlayer. This was solved by reference to this Firefox forum thread - post #5.
("to resolve the problem, in FF's "about:config", try disabling "dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled"..")
2. http://www.lightningmaps.org was not showing any map and this turned out to be a clash of some kind with the AddOn "I don't care about cookies". Disabling it for that site solved this one.
So if you happen to find either of these symptoms, these are worth considering.
1. Videos were not playing on BBC News or iPlayer. This was solved by reference to this Firefox forum thread - post #5.
("to resolve the problem, in FF's "about:config", try disabling "dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled"..")
2. http://www.lightningmaps.org was not showing any map and this turned out to be a clash of some kind with the AddOn "I don't care about cookies". Disabling it for that site solved this one.
So if you happen to find either of these symptoms, these are worth considering.
Has anyone tried uBlock? many people suggested it over at gamefaq and I never looked back I dumped adblock in a flash.
Originally Posted by albertd:
“For info, I have had a couple of issues with Firefox which I have solved, though I don't know how long standing they were.
1. Videos were not playing on BBC News or iPlayer. This was solved by reference to this Firefox forum thread - post #5.
("to resolve the problem, in FF's "about:config", try disabling "dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled"..")
2. http://www.lightningmaps.org was not showing any map and this turned out to be a clash of some kind with the AddOn "I don't care about cookies". Disabling it for that site solved this one.
So if you happen to find either of these symptoms, these are worth considering.”
“For info, I have had a couple of issues with Firefox which I have solved, though I don't know how long standing they were.
1. Videos were not playing on BBC News or iPlayer. This was solved by reference to this Firefox forum thread - post #5.
("to resolve the problem, in FF's "about:config", try disabling "dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled"..")
2. http://www.lightningmaps.org was not showing any map and this turned out to be a clash of some kind with the AddOn "I don't care about cookies". Disabling it for that site solved this one.
So if you happen to find either of these symptoms, these are worth considering.”
Thanks for posting the solution to the problem re the vids on the BBC site.
Originally Posted by mike1948:
“Thanks for posting the solution to the problem re the vids on the BBC site.”
“Thanks for posting the solution to the problem re the vids on the BBC site.”
Glad to hear it helped.
Originally Posted by Sick Bullet:
“Has anyone tried uBlock? many people suggested it over at gamefaq and I never looked back I dumped adblock in a flash.”
“Has anyone tried uBlock? many people suggested it over at gamefaq and I never looked back I dumped adblock in a flash.”
'Ublock Origin' is the one to go for I find it better than adblock....
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