Firefox 115.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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  • darthtyr@fedia.io
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have 3 Windows x64 machines:

    • i7 6600u | 16GB RAM | Intel HD 520 | Nvidia 940MX
    • i7 7700HQ | 16GB RAM | Nvidia 1060 (integrated Intel GPU disabled in BIOS)
    • i7 9850H | 32GB RAM | Intel UHD 630 | Nvidia Quadro T2000

    Firefox 115 running flawlessly on all of them. No issues, fast and smooth. Same as previous versions.

  • Sev
    2·
    1 year ago

    Been enjoying Edge for a year, but always appreciated FF for it being it’s own thing. Worth a shot?

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
      2·
      1 year ago

      I genuinely think the web has become horrible enough where the browser you use does not really matter from the technical perspective.

      It does, however, incredibly important to have more than 1 engine competing, as currently Firefox is the only mainstream browser not built on chromium/google.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
      2·
      1 year ago

      I use edge at work (nothing else available), Firefox everywhere else.

      It would be nice if more add-ons were supported on mobile, desktop is great.

    • glorious_albus@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Firefox was great, went to shit for a couple of years, and is now back to being great again. I’ve heard it’s much easier on memory as well.

      It’s one of the few non-chromium browsers left, so you should definitely try it because Google is trying to make their own standards with chromium.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s literally the only non-chromium browser left other than Safari. That’s why it is critically important that Firefox maintain a presence

    • octopus5866@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not even technically sufficient enough to describe why FF is better, but I switched couple years ago and have zero complaints since then. I just like that it is the last truly independent browser out there.

      Also, FF on mobile allows extensions, so adblockers in mobile browser 👌

      • Sev
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just grabbed FF on iOS, how would an adblocker work? UBlock origin doesn’t have a clear install path (if possible at all?)

          • Sev
            1·
            1 year ago

            Thanks anyway, other than an emergency Reddit search I never use safari anyway - websites on mobile are absolutely shocking to use.

    • DrM@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      100%! I switched from Chrome last year when the AdBlock thing was big and I never looked back. There are some things I still dont understand (activating syncing between multiple desktop versions is really weird for example) but they are all minor.

      Switching also was extremely easy! I could just import all my bookmarks and since I use BitWarden I didnt need to migrate any passwords. I think it’s also possible to import passwords, but I’m not 100% sure on that.

      There are also quite a few benefits, especially on mobile! You can use add-ons in the Firefox Android Browser, which is huge. Also on Firefox mobile I can view videos in Fullscreen rotated without enabling rotation on the phone, that never worked with chrome for me.

    • Lainah@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve used Firefox for the past few months as Hulu has been getting aggressive w/ uBlock solely on Chrome. The only annoying hurdles have been during the switch but other than that I would say it’s a good browser.

  • suprjami@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Can someone explain the Intel h264 decoding thing?

    I’ve had h264 decode on GPU working with VAAPI since forever. This seems to be telling me about a feature I already had years ago?

  • yoasif@fedia.ioM
    1·
    1 year ago

    Kind of a big update… this is the last version of Firefox for Windows 7 and Windows 8, along with macOS 10.12, 10.13, and 10.14. I know this is forcing family members to finally upgrade their (mac) OS.

    More big updates:

    • Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux.
    • We’ve refreshed and streamlined the user interface for importing data in from other browsers.
    • The builtin editor now behaves similarly to other browsers with contenteditable and designMode when splitting a node, e.g. typing Enter to split a paragraph, and also when joining two nodes, e.g. typing Backspace at the start of a paragraph to join the paragraph and the previous one.

    Pretty sure that last feature is what finally fixes the Reddit Fancy Pants editor in Firefox… exactly when Reddit is destroying itself.

    • IndexedDB is now also supported in private browsing without memory limits thanks to encrypted storage on disk. The temporary keys to decrypt the information are hold in RAM only and all stored information is purged at the normal end of a private browsing session from disk.

    This might help WhatsApp web run in private browsing, among other sites.

    The most impactful thing is definitely going to be OS compatibility… this is going to be the last version of Firefox for a long time for a lot of people.

  • A1Rayne@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    i have a feeling there is something horribly wrong with 115.

    firefox has been lagging and using too much ram. 114 was the best patch in history but now its back to the same old struggling firefox. or worse.

    • KoolKai@fedia.io
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you want to find the bug, you can run a mozregression to find what broke it (using 114 as your last known good release and 115 as your bad release).

      Please reach out if you need help with this.

      You can use your profile to test this pretty easily.

    • pascalc@fedia.io
      1·
      1 year ago

      I am not seeing any patch submitted to Mozilla by Dashlane on this bug which looks like it is at an investigation phase, is that in a separate bug?