Firefox 56 Released

[Chiefcrowe]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/56.0/releasenotes/

Pretty interesting write up linked on that page about how they are improving TLS algorithm performance also:
https://www.franziskuskiefer.de/post/aes-gcm-speedup

Also, some more info on v. 57 here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/

 

[Puffnstuff]

Thanks for the heads up Chief.

 

[Tsavo]

I'm using 57b. A totally different animal. FF finally released a fast browser.

 

[coercitiv]

I'm using 57b. A totally different animal. FF finally released a fast browser.

Yup, the beta is in a new league - from the outstanding performance improvements to the clean new design, Mozilla did an excellent job.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Alrighty I'm on beta 4 now and will report back if I see anything weird.

 

[AmyScarlett04]

Isn't FF57 supposed to mark the end of the old add-on support, in favour of Chrome-like extensions?

 

[ronbo613]

Since the update to 56(64 bit), Firefox does not load correctly on opening. Well, it's really embarrassing...

 

[Lubna]

Firefox 56.0.1 on a FTP
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/56.0.1/win64/

 

[Puffnstuff]

Since the update to 56(64 bit), Firefox does not load correctly on opening. Well, it's really embarrassing...

Have you tried clearing out the cookies and cashed pages and set it to refresh the page with each visit?

 

[nemesismk2]

my windows 10 firefox 56 is working very well and very fast. my firefox 56 is actually beating opera 48 which is a surprise. i bet firefox 57 will trade blows with chrome.

 

[Puffnstuff]

my windows 10 firefox 56 is working very well and very fast. my firefox 56 is actually beating opera 48 which is a surprise. i bet firefox 57 will trade blows with chrome.

The beta 57 is working quite well for me and I've yet to encounter a problem using it across a variety of websites.

 

[stockwiz]

Nice.. a reason to try firefox again.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Nice.. a reason to try firefox again.

Options are good.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Hi everyone.
I've used FF56 for a week or so. It's much more stable that its predecessor and has some interesting bits added into it.

Based on Puffnstuff post about FF57Beta, the future looks bright for Firefox. I wish I'll get the same excitement as when FF announced about e10s rollout.

 

[PowerEngineer]

What worries me about FF57 is that as I understand it so-called legacy add-on's will no longer work. While some of the most popular ones have been converted to using just web extensions, a few (of the few) add-on's that I use have not. Yes, there are FF57+ compatible alternatives, but the number of users are small (understandably at this point) and the reviews are not encouraging from a functionality and/or privacy standpoint.

Chief, as our FF guru, I'm wondering if you might kick off a thread here to discuss FF57+ compatible add-on's.

 

[country2]

nvm..posted in wrong topic

 

[ronbo613]

Have you tried clearing out the cookies and cashed pages and set it to refresh the page with each visit?

Yes. Does it every time I open the Firefox browser for the first time. Seems like it does not recognize the home page setting. Didn't happen with previous versions of Firefox.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes, I think we can discuss this in the thread about the dev. edition of 57, here:
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=thread...ap-forward-with-new-developer-edition.2519933

I'll post a link someone else alerted this forum to about the new Webextensions.

What worries me about FF57 is that as I understand it so-called legacy add-on's will no longer work. While some of the most popular ones have been converted to using just web extensions, a few (of the few) add-on's that I use have not. Yes, there are FF57+ compatible alternatives, but the number of users are small (understandably at this point) and the reviews are not encouraging from a functionality and/or privacy standpoint.

Chief, as our FF guru, I'm wondering if you might kick off a thread here to discuss FF57+ compatible add-on's.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

56.0.1 Released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/56.0.1/releasenotes

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, my friend is a long-time Firefox user, and uses NoScript. Got the 56.x update, and now his NoScript icon disappeared. He was hella pissed, and I looked at add-ons, and it said "Legacy", so I explained the whole move to "webextensions", and he didn't want to hear anything about it. He just wanted it to work. I was like, "Sorry, don't you read the whatsnew and readmes with the new browsers"? He was like, "no, why should I". I was like, "you would have known your extensions would stop working, until / unless they updated to the new APIs".

 

[Chiefcrowe]

According to this site there are 2 more bugs that they're working on before it's ported over...

https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons

 

[ao_ika_red]

Some of my extensions also get legacy remarks. But I believe if it's popular enough, sooner or later devs will update it. Firefox ESR will be the best bet to mitigate this legacy add-ons problem.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

56.0.2 Released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/56.0.2/releasenotes

 

[balloonshark]

So is it 100% confirmed that Firefox 56 kills all legacy extensions? I'm on hold with version 55.0.3. until I get a confirmation.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I think you must mean version 57. 56 still supports legacy but according to Mozilla, 57 will disable all legacy extensions.