Firefox - the Aurora and beta channels

What's your internet speed?

It's far more likely that its your browser/ the websites poor coding choices that are limiting. Unless you're under a 3mbps connection.

 

Hah! 3mbps! I'm talking 256kbps on one connection and 384 kbps (max) on another!!! So you see that the browser speed is quite, quite irrelevant for me.

 

Maybe it is extensions, though I only use ABP and Noscript. I seem to get issues where images will load rather slowly on a page, however, this is with Noscript, so heavy scripting can't quite be blamed. Nor can I blame it on a graphics issue (unless we're talking acceleration), since games and such run just as speedy as ever (both web games and actual games like World of Warcraft). Both FF5 and 7 have this issue, along with the others I mentioned. I checked my connection speed too, and the network is fine. So it's got to be something changed in FF, though what that would be I have no idea. A programmer I am not

 

In reference to memory usage not being lower on the new firefox, it will definitely be ABP + whatever lists you are using. They generally take a lot of memory, but this memory is static (just the lists) and not to worry about.

 

Sounds like it.

 

Well, if it (ABP) starts impacting page load times, then using fewer or shorter lists maybe advisable. But, IIRC, you've had problems with even earlier versions of Fx.

BTW, I've stopped using ABP. I used NotScript for less than a day a couple of years ago. So I won't comment.

Instead, I use SimpleBlock and Privoxy to block content and unwanted scripts.

 

Well, memory, for example, will generally top out at about 800Mb for the FF process itself, and the plugin container can go up to 200+, again, by itself. This is in both 5 and 7. Regarding lists, I use the following: Fanboy, Fanboy tracking (both national/international), Fanboy Annoyances, Fanboy Object Dimensions, Fanboy Japanese/Korean/Russian (I have to visit several sites from these nations), and Fanboy P2P (though honestly this is an iffy list, as P2P websites generally are covered under the other lists).

Perhaps the lists do need cut down some, but that's still a lot of memory being used, even before adding in heavy multimedia.

 

Personally that memory usage wouldn't really bother me and I'd rather have the lists blocking all ads/tracking content. Again it's static memory and should not impact performance of the machine (assuming memory is abundant) or page load time, infact, blocking the content should speed things up.

 

I'm working with 6Gb of RAM, so I have plenty to use. I don't know, it's just FF5 and 7 that seem to be this way. I don't recall having the issue on 4. *shrug* Who knows

 

I seem to remember that you had had some issue with Fx 4 and hence my earlier comment.

from here: -http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1850741&postcount=38-

 

Good catch there, and thanks for the reminder I'm not even sure what those were about now, but obviously a lot has been going on for me with Firefox, lol.

 

Comments on Aurora 8 in German ...
http://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/firefox/2011/08/19/firefox-8-aurora-download-release-notes/

Meanwhile, some users of beta (7) feel it's noticeably faster than the stable (6) and does take less RAM.

 

Down Them All isn't working for me with the latest (and greatest) Aurora. If I right-click on content that can be downloaded, I get a context menu, I click on DTA from that menu and get another very detailed context menu (which seems new to me), but then clicking on any choice causes the context menus to disappear and absolutely nothing happens.

It seemed to be working fine with Fx 7 (beta). I'm thinking of keeping Fx 7 (beta portable) as a standby when it is available.

 

i can say wow the newest aurora is way faster than the stable version 6... HUGE difference at least for me there sure is even with just page loads.

 

Still not available. There was a time even nightly builds used to be available at portableapps.com. I wonder whether there's some issue that is responsible

 

Okay and thanks, JR. After all they're volunteering their time and money so it's totally their call.

 

Yes! the beta is up there. The reason I want the beta is because of one add-on that doesn't seem to work in Aurora, DownThemAll!.

 

This could be helpful to Ubuntu newbies:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1352580
and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1712247

 

Good thing it won't be long until it's stable as well.

 

Looks like Firefox 7 will be the default browser for Ubuntu 11.10's release.

 

Indeed - and memory consumption is dramatically lower!

 

I'm on Aurora on Windows but am on beta on Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity).

One thing I didn't like was that trivial updates are not delta (= differential) if I update via Ubuntu Software Center. The update from 6.0 to 6.01 was a full 15 MB.

For the beta, I got the tar direct from Mozilla:
-https://www.mozilla.org/products/download.html?product=firefox-7.0b2&os=linux&lang=en-US-
This version will be incrementally updated.

I'll stay with the official repository for other stuff.