Jeez FF really stepping up the game. Seems like 32 was released just yesterday.<p>I'm not sure if there are any performance issues since I switched to FF about a year ago when bought new laptop with SSD and 16 gigs of ram it's as fast as Chrome. As for webdev tools, they are not worse, you are just too used to webkit ones. I might even say that FF has better dev tools because you can modify request and re-send it.<p>I switched because Google is trying to integrate Google too much into Chrome. That's definitely not something I look in a browser since I would like it to be independent and not spy on what I type/do.<p>Anyway, if anyone who is contributing to FF reading this I just want to thank you for best browser ever.
> Improved search experience through the location bar [1]<p>Really happy to see this one. Previously single-word searches were so slow that I'd usually have time to remember that they are slow, press C-e, and enter the same search term in the search bar, all before the browser realises there is no matching host and does a web search instead.<p>1: <a href="http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/faster-and-snappier-searches-now-in-firefox-aurora/" rel="nofollow">http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/faster-and-snappier-...</a>
The "ev" tag next to the DOM elements with events seems really useful<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector#Examining_event_listeners" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...</a>
So here's something I've noticed that's confused me about Firefox's cookie handling: I have cookies turned off, but a PREF cookie for google.com keeps getting set. I've even tried blocking cookies from google.com, but I still see this cookie. I turned off Do Not Track but haven't tried disabling SafeBrowsing or all my extensions, so maybe it is one of those. Has anyone noticed this, too?
Best browser keeps getting better. "If you know a Chrome user, get them to switch to Firefox" is going to be the new "If you know an IE user ..."
Interestingly this is not mentioned in this huge post, but according to <a href="http://arewefastyet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://arewefastyet.com/</a> Firefox JS is faster than Chrome and Safari in all benchmarks in both 32 and 64bit modes since quite a few month!<p>It used to be that Chrome marketing was pushing for this as being so much faster on Chrome than others so that's a pretty nice feat.
I wish they would put some effort into making Firefox feel more native on OS X, for example:<p>- Builtin support for Keychain (without relying on an extension).<p>- swipe-animation when going forward/backwards in history.<p>- "over-scroll" (you know, when you can sort sort scroll past the top and bottom of the page).<p>I know it sounds a bit vain, but I simply can't make a switch unless the look and feel is native to OS X.
The Latin1 optimization looks interesting. It seems like a big improvement for such a simple change (granted that it took one developer two months to do).<p>Activity Monitor reports that Firefox 32.0.3 is using 21 GB on my Mac. That makes for sluggish performance, even with 32 GB of RAM. Looking forward to trying Firefox 33.
I read the changelog and saw that proprietary window.crypto functions are removed. I actually make use of window.crypto.getRandomValues(), and good thing that's not going away:
<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Removing_Proprietary_window.crypto_Functions" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Removing_Propri...</a>
Please tell me, how to return the gray background in a new tab?
And how to return to the number rows and columns of picture thumbnails not decreased when the window changes at<p>half-screen, non-rounded thumbnails?
That new UI makes me sad...
still no cookie UI fix.... very disappointing, especially for an organization that claims to pride itself on protecting user privacy while dropping google analytics and google cookies on users... probably because they're so heavily dependent on google's money.
I'd be delighted to use FF on iPad. I do a lot of leisure browsing/reading and I want to support FF on all my devices. Is their stand still the same i.e. <i>We refuse to bring Firefox to iOS until Apple lets us use our web engine</i> ?<p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/15/mozilla-ceo-we-refuse-to-bring-firefox-to-ios-until-apple-lets-us-use-our-web-engine/" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/15/mozilla-ceo-we-refuse-to-b...</a>
The "send to chromecast" feature on Firefox android app is awesome, but I was kinda hoping that they added this to the desktop application too. I know that stuff like this is usually left for add-ons, but there isn't a good firefox add on which does Chromecast, unlike the several options on the Chrome web store.
It's disappointing that the H.264 video player support is not open source. Most of the patents managed by MPEG-LA have expired, and the ones that remain are either encoding-side only or for features nobody uses much, like interlace. Check out the patent lists.<p><a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_MP3_MPEG-2_H_264/" rel="nofollow">http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_M...</a><p><a href="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#MPEG-1_Audio_Layer_3_patents" rel="nofollow">http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#MPEG-1_Au...</a><p>Most of the remaining patents expire in 2015. There are a few for 2017, but they're for features nobody really needs in a computer decoder.
I think Firefox 33 also enables Direct3D 11 rendering on Windows. Can anyone confirm? I've just been digging through bugzilla and can't find a clear reference to that, but it's an interesting change if so.
Since upgrading to the last version (32), Firefox has become a significant resource hog on my machine. It has become considerably worse than any other browser. Has anyone else had this issue?
I had a real problem updating from 31 to 32. What usually is done automatically did not work. It kept on asking me if I would like to, and after saying yes it just kept stalling. This was in 2 different workplaces and at home, where I have not had trouble before.<p>I ended up having to download it from the website, which was not an obvious experience.
<i>Note: Firefox currently uses OpenH264 only for WebRTC and not for the <video> tag, because OpenH264 does not yet support the high profile format frequently used for streaming video. We will reconsider this once support has been added.</i><p>Yay, another decade before we get YouTube on OS X
I am currently running Win10 Dev preview full fledged on a daily work machine. Off topic, Win 10 works great except for a few USB bugs not allowing me to format USB drives.<p>My usage is not as high as im reading. But a lot of my usage comes from Adblock. I have 5 browser windows open, with about 5-10 tabs each, im currently @ 760mb on Win 10.<p>A nice bug I get is from Firebug. When I am debugging a site, and I try to hover over my Taskbar icons to grab a new window, it flashes for about 2 seconds on whatever im hovering, and I have to try again, the second try usually leaves my taskbar windows open. If I close Firebug, this problem stops.<p>I also notice when I run flash (I stream mixtapes from datpiff.com), my usage goes sky high. I have been trying some debug options in about:config, and I think I have knocked the usage down by modifying a few lines.<p>Also another bug I experience on Win10 with Firefox is my top bar will completely disappear, I have to alt+F4 to close out Firefox and re-open. Maybe Firefox 33 will fix some of these issues.
34 beta1 is also out and looks good<p>was hoping for native h264 to be working by now but apparently not<p><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/34.0b1/" rel="nofollow">http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/34.0...</a>
Hmm, after upgrading and restoring the session, all of my Hacker News tabs now show a Secure Connection Failed error: "The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_old_response)"
Still doesn't have the one feature I've been waiting for: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792831" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792831</a>
Do the Firefox releases have anything to do with the Spidermonkey releases? I've been seeing the placeholder page for Spidermonkey 31 for a couple of months now...
Did they fix the exponential usage of RAM for every extra tab yet? Stop saying that not used RAM is wasted RAM. I would like to do things with a browser in the background instead of closing and opening it everytime due to disproportionate RAM usage.<p>For reference, Chromium doesn't have this issue.
I begin to use Firefox more now than Chrome. Chrome has gotten really slow. like I navigate to a url, it will redirect to about:blank;<p>watching youtube or soundcloud sends cpu crazy active.<p>i remember I switched to chrome from firefox 5 years ago because of those reasons. now I find myself using firefox for the same reason, chrome is sluggish. I also don't feel creeped out.
Hmmm...<p>Don't most of HN users just use the Nightly's or the Canary build for Chrome?<p><a href="https://nightly.mozilla.org" rel="nofollow">https://nightly.mozilla.org</a><p>People complaining about the memory usage all the time seem a bit strange. Just buy a nice machine and help test betas so Google and Mozilla can move faster.
Great... so what long standing piece of UI did they screw around with this time that'll make me want to tear out my hair for a week until I either force myself to get used to it or give in to installing more 3rd party plugin crap to restore the functionality of?<p>I've seriously come to dread browser updates lately.