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Newest Firefox Browser Bashes Crashes (cnet.com)
Nobody likes it when a web browser bombs instead of opening up a website. Mozilla is addressing that in the newly released v53 of its Firefox browser, which it claims crashes 10 percent fewer times. CNET adds: The improvement comes through the first big debut of a part of Project Quantum, an effort launched in 2016 to beef up and speed up Firefox. To improve stability, Firefox 53 on Windows machines isolates software called a compositor that's in charge of painting elements of a website onto your screen. That isolation into a separate computing process cuts down on trouble spots that can occur when Firefox employs computers' graphics chips, Mozilla said.
It doesn't. It's nothing like Chrome. I use Firefox exclusively, on several different platforms and I tend to keep the programme open for many weeks. I haven't had a crash in years.
In "about:config" change "fayout.frame_rate" from -1 to 60 (or whatever your monitor runs at). For some stupid reason, Firefox renders as fast as your CPU can handle 100% of the time. Even at 60 FPS, it uses ~1% CPU when idle so I'm guessing it was going like 6000FPS when unrestrained.
Mind the frickin' laser...
Yes, Tell that to us. Just a couple weeks ago I had to search in more than 50 computer shops and stores and fail to find a computer capable of running DOS and latest version of general-electric PLC programming software that they still claim support for. because no one in here has anything older than 3 intel tics.
Yes, Please do blame us 3rd world countries for holding you back.
Am from Iran, 3rd world and all the import/export drama.
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The browser should render by default at vsync with the -1 setting. Perhaps the detection fails on some platforms?