The New Version of The Firefox Browser (V.56) For Windows Is Very FAST!
I've been thinking for a while about leaving Firefox for Chromium (The open source version of Google Chrome) because Firefox was slooooow and also crashed for me fairly regularly. Today though, there's a new version of Firefox that is FAST!
To give an idea of just how fast the new version of Firefox is, I usually have about 100 tabs open in the background in Firefox (I have quite a lot of RAM on my PC) and when I load a page in a tab, it typically took a couple of seconds to do much at all and would only fully load after maybe 4-5 seconds, even on the fastest sites - with some sites taking much longer.
Now, when I load pages, they start rendering in less than a second and are usually completed in about 2 seconds! That's a huge difference!
I put a lot of work into optimising my own website, finding that the performance gains would be ever smaller, the more I worked - since I was ironing out the most obvious issues first. I reached a point where I had almost exhausted my options for optimisations that weren't going to require intensive processes of re-engineering code from other authors that I was using for convenience. Now though, I'm not even sure if I need to do that at all since my own social network now loads completely in about 1 second - Amazing!! :)
I'll test the new version for Linux just as soon as it get's approved and pushed out with an update for my OS.
If you haven't got Firefox installed, you can grab it here
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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Thank you! I am the family technophobe but my husband will be VERY glad to hear this. We have one little laptop we share and it gets buggier and buggier using Chrome (what it came with.)
You are welcome! If I need to use a chrome browser for some reason then I use Chromium, which is the 'parent' of chrome and it's open sourced - so there's no hidden bits of code inserted by Google that you can't see the purpose of. I would compare the new Firefox with the latest Chromium and see who they work out for you. :)
the fast is chrome ♥
i'm currently seeing that firefox is about the same speed as chrome - except that I have a lot of plugins in firefox and none in chrome ;)
I think Firefox eats less ram done Chrome based on my experience. If they could just improve more features i will going to use firefox again.
Firefox is being redesigned to use CPU / RAM more optimally - I'm not sure if this new release includes those optimisations - but it may do.
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hmm, yeah i've just been using chrome for quite awhile now
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Thanks for the tip - I've been using Opera and Chrome because Firefox had so many problems - but I hate Chrome and Google are just evil - so far so good - if it works well I'll go back to Firefox as default today
After trying it for a few days, I have to say I've gone back to using a mix of Opera and Firefox on my laptop, and fully evil Chrome on my main computer.
Why? - because the spell check on Steemit comments won't work on Firefox, and I can't copy and paste images on Wordpress on Firefox.
So for Steemit I'm using Firefox on my laptop, but on my computer it has to be Chrome to get the spellchecker. I have no idea why! Steemit More doesn't run on Opera so it has to be one or the other, or I'd go with Opera
Firefox is faster than it was but still has issues!
oh ok, i don't know why you are having issues with the spellchecker, it works fine for me in both linux and windows in firefox and steemit. i tend to use the code editor in wordpress to manipulate images anyway, so i've never noticed any issues there either.
Yes it's totally inconsistent even just switching between two Win 7 computers - here on my laptop I'm now using Firefox for Steemit and Opera for Wordpress.
ah ok - sounds like a bug then - it may be listed in the firefox bug tracker.