Firefox Nightly Flips On New JIT "Warp" Code For Greater JavaScript Performance

[Vistaus]

This is precisely what Mozilla is fighting against.

And they have yet to make a difference.

[caligula]

Those benchmarks aren't everything though, and it looks like speedometer improves slightly

It also means there's now more room for web developers to produce slower web sites. Every optimization means the web site can perform slower.

[treba]

This sounds great, for Firefox and (IIUC) for all spidermonkey users i.e. the Gnome desktop.

[mdedetrich]

Too little, too late.

Have already switched to Brave which cherry picks the best features from both browsers (performance/ecosystem of chromium and privacy features from Firefox).

[ozeszty]

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Plus, unlike extensions that can be disabled and enabled from the toolbar, the built-in ones require me to go into the settings menu and disable them there...just an extra layer of annoyance.

I'm still a Firefox user, but damn are they trying my patience.

Good news, there's a toggle in shield icon's menu, next to address field. It adds/removes current website to/from exceptions list and reloads, unless you use it in private window - then it just temporarily disables/enables protection for that website.

Nothing fancy, like uBlock Origin advanced mode or even regular mode, but it does what you need.

[HarlemSquirrel]

It's the internet. Any semblance of privacy goes down the drain the second you connect to a website.

This is precisely what Mozilla is fighting against.

[Girolamo_Cavazzoni]

By the way, the new "Daylight" Android Firefox is an absolute disaster.

You say it's a disaster but you don't elaborate the Why. I've been using this disaster now for many months and haven't looked back to the classic Firefox / Fennec. It's way faster on my aging SD801 and brings the most important addons with it.

Granted, Vivaldi on Android is a great browser and I like what they're doing - but it's still closed source.

[Ironmask]

Enjoy your binary blob I guess. Any semblance of privacy goes down the drain.

It's the internet. Any semblance of privacy goes down the drain the second you connect to a website.

[skeevy420]

Whenever a new Firefox browser is released I give it a try, but for a few years now it just doesn't work on some websites. The primary problems are with forums, and there just doesn't seem to be anyway to get around the issues. Of course I first try configuring Firefox the same way as Chrome, primarily with UBlock and HTML5 Autoplay Blocker. And then I try it with all blockers, including the built-in ones, disabled. But no matter what I do it just doesn't work.

Of course I've also tried Chromium, but it doesn't work with some streaming sites, even with protected content enabled.

So I always end up having to use Chrome as my default browser. And I really wish that weren't the case.

By the way, the new "Daylight" Android Firefox is an absolute disaster. And Android Chrome always has been as well. So I ended up having to download an APK for the last Fennec Firefox, as it's the only Android browser that works with extensions, allows a custom home page, regular bookmarks, etc.

Yeah. I really dislike all the built-in blockers and privacy crap Firefox includes these days. And I mean crap because those break more websites than anything else in my experience. Plus, unlike extensions that can be disabled and enabled from the toolbar, the built-in ones require me to go into the settings menu and disable them there...just an extra layer of annoyance.

I'm still a Firefox user, but damn are they trying my patience.

[muncrief]

Whenever a new Firefox browser is released I give it a try, but for a few years now it just doesn't work on some websites. The primary problems are with forums, and there just doesn't seem to be any way to get around the issues. Of course I first try configuring Firefox the same way as Chrome, primarily with UBlock and HTML5 Autoplay Blocker. And then I try it with all blockers, including the built-in ones, disabled. But no matter what I do it just doesn't work.

Of course I've also tried Chromium, but it doesn't work with some streaming sites, even with protected content enabled.

So I always end up having to use Chrome as my default browser. And I really wish that weren't the case.

By the way, the new "Daylight" Android Firefox is an absolute disaster. And Android Chrome always has been as well. So I ended up having to download an APK for the last Fennec Firefox, as it's the only Android browser that works with extensions, allows a custom home page, regular bookmarks, etc.