Mozilla Firefox Browser Stable Version Releases

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  1. Trooper

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    Just installed Firefox a little while ago. No freezing but after doing this tweak, definitely seems faster as you said.
     
    Trooper, May 21, 2022
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  2. JRViejo

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    FYI. A little more reading on TLS 1.3: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Transport_Layer_Security
    Maybe it's a server side issue if not correctly implemented.
     
    JRViejo, May 21, 2022
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  3. xxJackxx

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    Wow. I didn't expect this much response. I just took a brief look at this and I think you're on the right track but I'll have to take a closer look later. Thanks to everyone that replied. :thumb:
     
    xxJackxx, May 21, 2022
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  4. imdb

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    i think we can call it a fact that it is considerably faster. :thumb:
     
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  5. Brummelchen

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    Some more informations, this issue is NOT in general, be careful, what you set
    https://support.mozilla.org/de/questions/1350672

     
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  6. imdb

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  7. Trooper

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    Seems that way.
     
    Trooper, May 21, 2022
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  8. xxJackxx

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    It does seem that way. Tested it and it seems to work so I'm not changing it back until they fix it. Firefox has been losing too many users to be messing up. Oh well, only 4 weeks until the next version. At the most. Always. :confused:
     
    xxJackxx, May 21, 2022
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  11. JRViejo

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    SouthPark, you're welcome! Take care.

    Not official yet in the PortableApps website, so I would be careful downloading from sourceforge, because in the past, there have been times that revisions have been uploaded to sourceforge before a software becomes official. Tread carefully is my advice.
     
    JRViejo, May 21, 2022
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  12. JRViejo

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  13. JRViejo

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    From Brummelchen's provided link: https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?t=26365
     
    JRViejo, May 21, 2022
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  14. Krusty

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    ... So we should disable it?
     
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  15. JRViejo

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    Guess it's always a personal decision, based on your PC's configuration, whether to tweak a browser or not.
     
    JRViejo, May 21, 2022
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  16. Krusty

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    Well, I'm always keen on " enhancing security and privacy", so I have disabled it on my machines until I hear / read otherwise.

    Thanks to all for the information. :thumb:
     
    Krusty, May 21, 2022
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  17. JRViejo

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    Krusty, you're welcome! Keep in mind that the next version update might reverse the tweak since it deals with TLS; we'll see. Take care.
     
    JRViejo, May 21, 2022
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  18. Spartan

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    and I was wondering why my new Alienware laptop kept randomly crashing. I couldn't think of anything until I read this thread and did the tweak. Didn't have a crash since then. When I see crash I mean the entire computer would freeze until I do a forced shutdown.
     
    Spartan, May 21, 2022
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  19. Brummelchen

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    yes, leave it "true", as long you do NOT expierence that google error.
    as the linked article points out it might be an issue around using proxy, vpn, internally used.
    those who speak up are only few, there is no problem mentioned in the german firefox forum, so its a very rare issue. and as you can read here the majority of users do not have problems.
    No!

    read again above
     
    Brummelchen, May 22, 2022
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  20. SouthPark

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    Thanks for the info. I'm surprised that Portable Apps hasn't updated it yet (as of midnight Monday) considering the patches are marked as "critical."
     
    SouthPark, May 23, 2022
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  21. imdb

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    hi, south. check your inbox. ;)
     
    imdb, May 23, 2022
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  22. JRViejo

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    Portable Apps is mainly a one person (John T. Haller) project these days:

    https://portableapps.com/development/outdated
     
    JRViejo, May 23, 2022
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  23. xxJackxx

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    I can't really see a reason to keep it enabled. Seems like a security tradeoff for some imperceptible speed improvements. From that article:
     
    xxJackxx, May 23, 2022
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  24. JRViejo

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    Me too. Only one TLS aspect is being disabled, not the entire thing. :isay:
     
    JRViejo, May 23, 2022
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  25. Trooper

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    FWIW, I disabled it. :cool:
     
    Trooper, May 23, 2022
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