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Firefox 27 Released: TLS 1.2 Support, SPDY 3.1, SocialAPI Improvements
jones_supa writes "Mozilla has released Firefox 27 for Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows (download). One of the big changes is enabling support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 by default. Firefox 27 also supports the SPDY 3.1 protocol. Developers got some new toys: support was added for ES6 generators in SpiderMonkey, the debugger will de-obfuscate JavaScript, and style sheets can be reset by using all:unset. Mozilla also announced some new social integration options. In addition to all these changes, the Android version got some UI improvements and font readability upgrades. For a future release, Mozilla is currently testing a new approach for Firefox Sync in Nightly builds. They recognized the headaches involved with how it works, and they're now opting to use a simple e-mail and password combination like Google Chrome does. In the old system, users were forced to store an auto-generated authorization code, which, if lost, would render their bookmarks, passwords and browsing history inaccessible. "
Did you see them before? This release didn't add them, it added more. Personally I have no idea where they are.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I used Chrome for quite a while but just switched back to Firefox. Chrome restricts things like downloading media (especially from YouTube) and doesn't work correctly on some ecommerce sites that I use. Firefox isn't (subjectively) that much slower than Chrome any longer and clearly has the widest choice of add-ons.
I don't use social media so could care less about bloatware.
I just want FF's memory leak to be fixed instead of the devs ignoring it version after version, year after year.
Chrome's "Task Manager" that shows per tab it's Name, Memory, CPU Usage, Network Traffic and FPS still lacks any counter part in FF.
Chrome uses more ram than any other browser according to benchmarks. FF the least. A lot has changed since 2011.
http://saveie6.com/
Chrome uses almost 300% more ram than FF or IE 11 on my system when I have +40 tabs opened.
Tomshardware.com did some benchmarks that can confirm this. It even hit slashdot that FF 13 used the least amount of ram a year and a half ago.
FF 4.0 != FF 25 and later and a lot has changed since 2011. I am tempted to switch back to Firefox as it is so light and quick now.
http://saveie6.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
"Mozilla Firefox via add-on" - a start at least...
Yeah, I knew about that possibility before, but since the data to be stored on Mozilla servers was being properly encrypted on my device and in my client, I opted out of the usual "maintain my own infrastructure" chores that one time. Now, the "old" (read: current) Firefox Sync system is going away completely in the not too distant future, and you'll probably have to install some kind of add-on to keep your existing, self-hosted infrastructure functional. Meanwhile, I asked some Mozilla people/developers what the change was about, and how the new system is supposed to keep users' data confidential. The transcript of the IRC session is available here, on Debian's inofficial pastebin - enjoy! :)
:%s/Open Source/Free Software/g
YTARY!
It's called "about:memory" and it shows you memory allocation in all kinds of fine or coarse grained ways. And it's been almost continually improved for the past couple of years, while the big issues this page has revealed have been fixed.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
The new server code/service building blocks are already (at least in part) available: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa... https://github.com/mozilla/fxa... - there's probably more, but mozila shares so much on github I don't really know what to look for.
:%s/Open Source/Free Software/g
YTARY!