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Firefox 51 Arrives With HTTP Warning, WebGL 2 and FLAC Support (venturebeat.com)
Reader Krystalo writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 51 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes a new warning for websites which collect passwords but don't use HTTPS, WebGL 2 support for better 3D graphics, and FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback. Mozilla doesn't break out the exact numbers for Firefox, though the company does say "half a billion people around the world" use the browser. In other words, it's a major platform that web developers target -- even in a world increasingly dominated by mobile apps.
Christ. Heaven forbid someone points out that problems are often solved by troubleshooting, rather than pissing and moaning.
>Why do I have to reset my Firefox profile every couple of months just to get it to kind of work better, while I never have to do that for Chrome?
I don't know. Why do so many other people NOT have to do that, yet you have to? If you don't want to find out, then fuck off with your holier-than-thou attitude about how Firefox sucks because it's just not stroking you off the right way.
>I've used the same Chrome profile for years now
>Chrome works perfectly.
Yes, and there are many people who would say the same about Firefox, because people's needs from a browser aren't exactly the same as yours.
Look. I'm glad Chrome works perfectly for you. I'm also perfectly willing to accept that Firefox doesn't work for you. The question is still why? And why are you so against figuring that out, instead of felating Chrome like a cheap whore and then accusing others of doing the same for Firefox?
>Why is Firefox so much worse than Chrome? Why are Firefox's users constantly told to use fresh profiles, while Chrome's users don't have to do this?
Gee, I don't know, maybe it's because Firefox allows you to customize far more than Chrome, to the point of letting you screw up? Or that it has many more third party apps like shitty A/V software fucking with it? Perhaps because it's is so much older than Chrome that it has needed extreme overhauls, while not breaking everything for all of its users as it does so?
I seriously wonder if you guys who say these things have even tried to reset your profiles, or if you're just avoiding any troubleshooting at all. Maybe if you collectively spent less time bitching in vain online while stroking Chrome's ego, you could have helped to diagnose whatever problems you're having, they would have been fixed, and all of this finger-waggling of yours wouldn't be necessary anymore.
The problem with the database Firefox uses is it doesn't actually delete entries when you delete them. It just marks them as deleted so apparently database queries still spend time skipping over them. They aren't actually removed until you perform a vacuum operation on the database. As you found out, there are tools like Speedyfox which do that for you.
Firefox has tons of issues. I'm amazed it's gotten as far as it has with so many fundamental design mistakes. But I guess that really just shows you the sorry state browsers are in. Granted they're required to do a lot, but they implement the basics so poorly.