Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations

[curfew]

I always do the webGL aquarium test when a new FF version comes out and this time, it doesn't slow down to a crawl with 15K fish, in fact, it can go up to 25K and perform acceptably, still owing a good performance at the 30K mark.

Also a 4K Youtube video playback is absolutely smooth when it was choppy before.

Based on the number of problems you're still running on Xorg? Video playback on Firefox has been smooth eversince they first introduced video hardware decoding nearly three years ago now, and it has been steadily improving with every release.

While I don't monitor and compare every Firefox release, I had already noticed lower CPU usage with video decoding back with Firefox 116. On the WebGL Aquarium demo I was getting 30 fps with 15,000 fish and didn't notice any improvement after upgrading to Fx 118.

[enigmaxg2]

I always do the webGL aquarium test when a new FF version comes out and this time, it doesn't slow down to a crawl with 15K fish, in fact, it can go up to 25K and perform acceptably, still owing a good performance at the 30K mark.

Also a 4K Youtube video playback is absolutely smooth when it was choppy before.

Nice to see actual performance improvements. Kudos to FF team!

[Vistaus]

I have the same issue trying to write text in Firefox on Android with Phoronix Forums. It is like focus was changing constantly and not all key presses get to the text box. Sometimes if there is a visible ad closing it resolves temporarily the issue.

I have that issue in Falkon my desktop too sometimes.

[oibaf]

Can't wait to try local translations and see the speed and quality, loved the news!

I already got them in 117. I was very positively impressed by both speed (about 1s) and quality (comparable to best online translators), as well as the unobtrusive rendering. Maybe it would be nice to have a 1-click way to translate (now it requires 2-clicks).

[partcyborg]

What keyboard do you use? Gboard starts changing modes crazy when editing

Working fine here too using firefox nightly with gboard on crdoid android 13.

However I am also using ublock origin so if this is ad related it won't affect me

[andyprough]

wish I had your skill for some reason for me whenever I quote someone the thing craps itself, s9+.

Try using the Firefox mobile browser with noscript extension, and then disallow js from all domains except Phoronix. My preferred version of Firefox mobile is the "Mull Browser" fork on F-Droid, which comes with noscript available by default if I recall correctly.

[oleid]

What keyboard do you use? Gboard starts changing modes crazy when editing

GBoard it would seem. On a Fairphone 4, fwiw

[Quackdoc]

What? What is broken?

Writing this post from mobile Firefox by the way. No problems at all.

wish I had your skill for some reason for me whenever I quote someone the thing craps itself, s9+.

[piorunz]

It took me a long time to realize that it was even possible to write at all on mobile browsers.

What?

I thought it had been explicitly disabled because this forum is so broken even on desktop browsers.

What? What is broken?

Writing this post from mobile Firefox by the way. No problems at all.

[curfew]

Huh? Firefox on Android user here. Never noticed what you describe.

It took me a long time to realize that it was even possible to write at all on mobile browsers. I thought it had been explicitly disabled because this forum is so broken even on desktop browsers.